Eaten alive, the home version

[IW17]

Well my sweet loving water python decided once again that my finger was just too tasty to pass up lol. Last time she let go on her own in about ten seconds. This time, not so much. I had to try every trick in the book. Finally it took warm water, slowly increasing the temperature until she decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. I must say this species, or at least this snake is turning out to be the most unpredictable I have kept so far in my life. But something so beautiful is worth a little spilled blood.

[IW17]

Here's another one. Excuse the mess, I was cleaning cages.

[EL Ziggy]

Fierce little beauty you got there IW! Are they fun to keep?

[Minkness]

She is a beauty! Don't they get super big though?

[pinefamily]

What kind of water python is it?

[IW17]

Liasis fuscus Australian water python. Beautiful snakes. Their iridescence is unreal. Known for being defensive and unpredictable. Mine is actually not defensive in the least. Never struck at me. She does however from time to time decide when she's crawling around to just latch on and taste me so to speak. They're not large snakes, usually maxing out around six feet. In the same family as white lipped pythons and olive pythons.

[Minkness]

When I googled pics it shows them eating crocks and gators o.o

Is that a different type of water python?

[IW17]

Most likely the snake you saw was an olive python. They can get well over ten feet but look very similar.

[IW17]

Is this the picture you saw? If so this is an olive python. Same family, different species.

[Minkness]

Oh wow! Yeah, that's one of the pics I saw. Thanks for clarifying! =)

[pinefamily]

Olives can get pretty big, Minkness.
I thought it was one of ours, IW17. I can't remember which way it goes, but apparently the temperament varies between Northern Territory and Queensland specimens.

[Pogie]

I love the color of that snake! She must think you taste pretty good lolol.

[IW17]

Olives can get pretty big, Minkness.
I thought it was one of ours, IW17. I can't remember which way it goes, but apparently the temperament varies between Northern Territory and Queensland specimens.

OK that good to know. I've never heard that myself. I honestly have no idea which locality mine is comes from. It's difficult to find a lot of information on this species compared to others. They're a very interesting species never the less. Always active, beautiful and an insane feeding response. Makes my retics look calm.

[SnoopySnake]

I was thinking about getting one of these but I already have one crazy snake to deal with...and one who I'm still getting to know but should be crazy lol. They are very beautiful. Would they utilize large water features?

[pinefamily]

Just out of curiosity, what do you feed it?

[pinefamily]

There's a little bit of info on this page about them. And the different temperaments; I guess you have an NT variety, lol.
http://www.southernxreptiles.com/Article%20PDFs/road_testing_lr.pdf

[IW17]

Mine doesn't use her water bowl ever. I have a large bowl in her enclosure big enough for her to fully submerge and even swim in to a certain extent and she has not once been in it to my knowledge. I feed her weaned rats weekly and she is a food driven psycho lol. She will launch out of her tub at the first thing she sees. And if I hold the rat away from her she will literally follow me around in pursuit if I were to take it so far. I can honestly say she is my most exciting snake to work with. If this was an animal that got as large as retics there is no way I could work with her alone safely. That being said she's the perfect size animal to work with and not have the worries that come with a giant chasing you around the room.

[pinefamily]

Have you ever tried putting feeder fish of appropriate size in the water?

[IW17]

No I've never tried fish. The bowl is large enough to sustain them and I would be suspicious of feeding mass bred fish. Not knowing if they contain parasites I've known this to be an issue in aquarium settings.