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We got our newest addition to our little family. A 4ft ball python, he is a pretty little thing 
:P 
(at least we think he is a he, we'll have him probed in a week or two) We named him Deiter, if he turns out to be a she it'll be Deitra. After having our red-tail for almost a year and with her being 6.5 feet. He looked so very tiny. It was kind of like holding a new born baby, you're afraid you might break them. The owner before lost his job and couldn't care for him any longer. So we bought him of him. But the only problem I forsee is that he only fed him live prey for the last 4-5 years. Now I only feed my Ursula (our red-tail) F/T rats. Any suggestions as to how to help Deiter start eating F/T instead of live. The last owner said that he has it down to a science and the rat has only bitten once, when he was very young. But I don't want to take any chances. Besides, my girlfriend can stand to see anything get killed, :'( :'( :'( even if it is for food. Also, in the cage he came in, he had some driftwood branches so he can climb, which he does. I'm not sure if he bought it at a petshop as pretreated or if he just found some and put it in. I'm kind of voting on the latter. But it has started to grow some mold, or moss on it. Now it does look kool and I would like to have something like that, but not like that I don't. Any suggestions as to how to treat it, so it won't do that again. Can I soak it in Extremely hot bleach water and treat it that way or would it be better to boil it in bleach water? Or would it just be best to throw the stuff away and buy some real stuff?
:P (at least we think he is a he, we'll have him probed in a week or two) We named him Deiter, if he turns out to be a she it'll be Deitra. After having our red-tail for almost a year and with her being 6.5 feet. He looked so very tiny. It was kind of like holding a new born baby, you're afraid you might break them. The owner before lost his job and couldn't care for him any longer. So we bought him of him. But the only problem I forsee is that he only fed him live prey for the last 4-5 years. Now I only feed my Ursula (our red-tail) F/T rats. Any suggestions as to how to help Deiter start eating F/T instead of live. The last owner said that he has it down to a science and the rat has only bitten once, when he was very young. But I don't want to take any chances. Besides, my girlfriend can stand to see anything get killed, :'( :'( :'( even if it is for food. Also, in the cage he came in, he had some driftwood branches so he can climb, which he does. I'm not sure if he bought it at a petshop as pretreated or if he just found some and put it in. I'm kind of voting on the latter. But it has started to grow some mold, or moss on it. Now it does look kool and I would like to have something like that, but not like that I don't. Any suggestions as to how to treat it, so it won't do that again. Can I soak it in Extremely hot bleach water and treat it that way or would it be better to boil it in bleach water? Or would it just be best to throw the stuff away and buy some real stuff?
Well, another feeding session has come and gone. This time we bought 2 frozen and 2 live rats. Again he ate both the F/T rats and we didn't even have to feed him any live. cwm12.gif b3.gif Now my girlfriend has 3 pet rats. I've had to promise her to never feed them to Dieter!! Or ever ask him to babysit. LOL!! I'm going to keep going with the F/T and see how it goes. It didn't really take near as much work as I thought it was going to take.
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