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Thanks everybody for helping with my first few days with my new baby python. She finally took two rat crawlers, guess she didn't know what mice were...Boy was she hungry!
 
glad she started quickly...now your'e in for it, though, because baby burms are always hungry, lol.
 
She kinda suprised me...I went in later to put her hide back because she was in such a hurry to feed that she knocked it over and found that she was still hunting...my hand. So I couldn't put the hide back until this morning. She is a little more active than I expected for the day after feeding, I think I will offer her a third next time, but I was afraid to offer too much, don't want her regurgitating and having to start all over...I can see why following strict rules is important with these snakes when feeding them...when she struck at my hand all I saw in my mind was 400lb of adult python hunting me lol
 
Glad to hear you got her eating, I figured she would once she settled in and got a food that she recognized. :)
 
They are neat snakes..and are serious chow hounds...make sure you start safe feeding practices now...avoid problems later that way. While I and a good many others consider Burms the ambassodors of the snake world...you have to remember they get BIG, and I know you realize that...just harping on it some more for people reading this thinking about getting a burm.....I just picked up two more "rescues" that in essence became too much for their former owners..and last week I picked up two others that were confiscations in a neighboring state.
Also winter is brutal in your part of the country, so make sure you are preparred to keep your new buddy warm!
 
Safe feeding practices

Am following a list of safe feeding practices, let me know if I am missing any, definitely want to be as responsible and safe as possible with this girl.
1) dont feed live prey EVER 2) dont dangle or move prey around 3) make sure to wash hands and/or wear gloves so that I don't seem like prey 4) only feed inside the enclosure 5) no access to family pets
I'm sure I missed some, they are important, so please let me know what I missed. Read too many stories about large constrictors mistaking keeper for food and killing or injuring keeper or keeper's helper, usually I could pick out what they did wrong..I know she will be BIG...am modifying a room for her...and I DO NOT plan to breed her, too many unwanted big snakes, I didn't pick up a rescue bcs I didn't have enough experience to handle a large snake that may or may not be gentle and may or may not have been handled/fed properly, don't want to put myself or family to any unnecessary risk, maybe in a few years if I have the facilities/resources and experience
 
She is in a heat controlled environment, 86-90 daytime, hot spot up to 92, cool never lower than 82, 82 throughout at night, 50-55 percent humidity
 
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