Sylphie has balls too!

[Sylphie]

I'm finally having balls too! Well, at that moment one, but I'm pretty sure that there will be more in future.

He's a 2015 Firefly, I paid for him today and will get him in the next few days, because now I'm sick and can't ride to get him :( The pics are not the best but I'm super happy, haha! He's early christmas present from my dad and boyfriend, and let me tell you that my dad was afraid of snakes at first and now is having his very own corn and want a ball too in future.

I asked about everything that I thought about, and the breeder lives near my town, so the little one won't have to travel too much. He will live in a tub, as the breeder is keeping his snakes in racks and I don't want to change too much and stress him out.

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[EL Ziggy]

Congrats on the nice new addition Sylphie.

[ManSlaughter33]

He's a beaut :) I'm sure after a 5-7 days of settling in he'll eat no problem :)

[Sylphie]

Thank you all! :)

And yeah, I'll give him a week to settle, then feeding and only then handling... it will be hard time of waiting, haha! :D

[trailblazer295]

Any more then 2 and you should seek medical attention ;)

Nice choice though, really like his colours. Hopefully he will be a good boy.

[ManSlaughter33]

I love fireflys. both mine are boys.
I have 2, and pairing with my fire hoping for more and some super fires :D

[Sylphie]

Any more then 2 and you should seek medical attention ;)

Nice choice though, really like his colours. Hopefully he will be a good boy.

There will be more than 2 for sure, my bf wants more garter snakes, I want japanese rats and more balls, and we both like corns, so sooner or later we'll find something nice for sure too! :D

And Manslaughter, I really like yellow&black snakes, that's why I choosed this one (and now is the great time of year when every breeder wants to sold the last babies and the prices are soo cheap even in higher morphs!). I guess that next will be normal female as I like their colors too.

[sirtalis]

Nice, fireflies are one of my favorite morphs :)

[Aaron_S]

Fireflies are super cool!

[Sylphie]

Well, here are the few pics when we got him, now he's in his tub and needs to settle down. Unfortunately the tub is a little too small, so I guess we'll need to switch it in the next few weeks. The owner was also having super nice cinnamon girl, really active with monster feeding response, but in the end that little guy won, haha! :)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/WP_20151112_004_zpsnb70tfzh.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/WP_20151112_007_zpst6qqnohd.jpg

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[Sylphie]

He started to be very active the last few nights, I guess he's comfortable enough to look around. Unfortunately we ran out of mices and we can't order them until tomorrow, so all the snakes must wait till next friday to have their meal. I decided to try to open the tub of this little one yesterday night and see if he will be willing to go to my hands. Here are few pics, it was really short handling session (around 5 minutes maybe) as I don't want to stress him too much before frist meal, but he was really calm and curious most of that time.

The good thing is also that we bought a pair of pygmy mices few days ago, and my bf unfortunately left their box next to snake tubs for a while. This little guys went crazy feeling the scent of mices, so I know to try to scent the first few f/t. Seeing his reaction he should eat it with no problems then!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/WP_20151121_21_23_42_Pro_zpsigrsilxc.jpg

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http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/WP_20151121_21_23_08_Pro_zpsrqxw4usn.jpg

I know that they are rather crappy, but I don't want to hold him at day yet :D

And one "snakes loves tubes" from the day when we moved him to bigger rub:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/QWccT0F_zpse7w0o6lr.jpg

[RAD House]

Great looking snake. The title of this thread makes me snicker every time I read it.

[Albert Clark]

Fantastic addition Sylph! He looks amazing. Wish I had a pair.

[Sylphie]

Great looking snake. The title of this thread makes me snicker every time I read it.

That's why I made it that way :D

Albert, thank you! I'm planning to get him one of the females that are often found in my country, are in good prices and will make a really nice offsprings... At that moment I have 4 different morphs I would like to get for him, and from what I know I'll end up with all of them, haha! :)

[trailblazer295]

Glad he is a calm little guy.

Great looking snake. The title of this thread makes me snicker every time I read it.

lol you're not alone

[RAD House]

[QUOTE=Sylphie;979254]That's why I made it that way :D QUOTE]

Well done, the fact that English is not your first language makes it so much more funny. Many people would make this statement not realizing the hidden innuendo associated with it.

[Sylphie]

Well done, the fact that English is not your first language makes it so much more funny. Many people would make this statement not realizing the hidden innuendo associated with it.

Thank you! :D I read a lot of books in English so I can understand some more "deeper" means... but at the same time I lack a lot in grammar part as I don't always know which time to use (past times in English are soo hard). And there is a lot of more "technical" words that I don't know as they are not often used in books.

[trailblazer295]

Thank you! :D I read a lot of books in English so I can understand some more "deeper" means... but at the same time I lack a lot in grammar part as I don't always know which time to use (past times in English are soo hard). And there is a lot of more "technical" words that I don't know as they are not often used in books.

You're doing just fine, plenty of English speaking people can't use grammar either lol

And it's still funny lol

[reptiledude987]

You're doing just fine, plenty of English speaking people can't use grammar either lol

And it's still funny lol

I agree it amazes me how many people who grow up learning english in school who still dont know proper uses of there the're and their. I love when people are giving others a hard time on facebook about spelling then misuse those. I always call them out on it too lol.

[trailblazer295]

I agree it amazes me how many people who grow up learning english in c=school who still dont know proper uses of there the're and their. I love when people are giving others a hard time on facebook about spelling then misuse those. I always call them out on it too lol.

You're too advanced as many are still working on you, your and you're. Baby steps have to crawl before you walk. It's the instant messaging/texting age. All that stuff just slows you down. Now it seems a lot of ppl lyk 2 talk lyk dis, cuz it's shortr nd fastr.

[Sylphie]

Today he decided to throw his water bowl and was swimming in wet paper towels... so I handled him for a few minutes while cleaning his tub. Ofc I can't go off the chance to take some more pics so here we are:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/PICT3747_zpsgmoygm6n.jpg

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And some "camera is soo interesting, let me see!"

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http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/PICT3761_zpsrrjb2z9b.jpg

I'm really in love with this little guy, but I hope that he'll be a good boy and I won't be forced to handle him again until feeding day... we still are waiting for our mices to arrive and most of our snakes (the one that aren't in shed) are already wandering all the time looking for the food.

[trailblazer295]

Cutie for sure

[Sylphie]

I tried to give him f/t mice today, he was striking and coiling but didn't want to eat :( We'll give him a week and will try scenting and braining next time.

[chairman]

Double check the temperature of the rat too. I am new to ball pythons but one thing that I have quickly learned is that while my colubrids will take room temperature food, my ball requires very warm food.

[Sylphie]

Ha! I was making f/t hopper for our blizzard corn who likes it realy hot and scented, and I decided to try giving it to Klusek first... he striked, coiled and ate it without problems! I'm super happy! :)

[EL Ziggy]

He's gorgeous Sylphie. Im glad he ate too. :)

[Sylphie]

He ate third time in a row since he's with me <3
I'm soo proud, especially that after taking pics I noticed his eyes starts to be clouded a little.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/PICT3907_zpsa4ztzxvo.jpg

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He's eating scented hot (but not boiled) f/t mices once every 14 days. I tried to feed him once every week, but well, he's refusing, so I guess he knows better how much he needs. And after moving him to a small glass cube he's more like a typical "pet rock" ball python, so he seems to be happy here :D

[havoc_vulture]

Nice balls !

[Sylphie]

"But... but Klusek, ball pythons are pet rocks... that's not how pet rocks works, you shouldn't be climbing every day, you know?... *he falls*... AND thats why rocks don't climb!"
He's soo sweet when every day around 17 he start's to wander and climb around. Then after few hours he's off to being sleeping ball again.

(Excuse me a little messy glass!)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/PICT3957_zpsp8gqh9c1.jpg

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[Sasha2]

He is so cute.I love the firefly morph, one of my favorites they just get prettier with age.

[trailblazer295]

Nice pics. My guy has been interested in climbing since he was the same size. They might not be graceful but they seem to enjoy it. Hangs out on the branches at night all the time.

[treaux]

Beautiful little fella!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/122629/38802f714f22086f1c2b97c9226c5d4330d8164e48f7963027 8718d10a34feed.jpg

[Sylphie]

Hahaha, treaux, that pic is epic :D

trailblazer, yeah, he seems to love climbing, when I'll move him to bigger tank he'll definitely get some branches to climb there.

Sasha2, to be honest I like most of the ball morhps, it's just that he was easily avaiable for me (the breeder lives in my town), he was rather cheap, and he ate f/t. Ahh, and he's black&yellow, that matters too!

I would love to get him a nice low pied female someday, but they are a little too expensive for me still. Looking how fast the prices are droping I"ll need to wait for 2-3 years only, so that's not bad.

[Sylphie]

I'm super suprised with his feeding responses recently. I guess that all our colubrids are a "bad" example for him, as he's now looking for new food 2-3 days after feeding (so, we're feeding him every 4-5 days), and when I'm near his viv he's all hunting and fierce :D I guess that I'll need to tap train him like a retic soon if he'll keep that attitude with growing :rolleyes: I'm really glad that we decided to buy him, he's like rat snake in a body of a ball, haha!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/PICT3941_zpsdn8mg1by.jpg

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[Sylphie]

BIG NEWS

Life is fun sometimes :D Maybe some of you remember that we were forced to rehome our first beloved ball python because he was very picky eater and we were too inexperienced... Today on one of the snake forums I noticed ad with rack system and two snakes, one boa and one ball python. That ball was the same birth date as our first one, so I checked the pics, and bingo, that's the one! I wrote to the owner and he said that she's eating like a champ now and so... we'll get her tomorrow! :D I'm super super happy!

[trailblazer295]

Wow that's cool, congrats.

[Albert Clark]

Great looking firefly Sylph! Good to hear he's feeding and thriving well. That's amazing about your rehomed ball python making it back to you. Guess she's come full circle. Congrats.

[macandchz]

he has such a cute little face! good luck with him.

[Sylphie]

She's sooo big! And still sweet as a pie, I can touch her everywhere and she's like "fine, if this makes you happy". She's now in quarantine with another snake we got from her owner (I'll make thread for him when I got some decent pics), and I hope that she'll eat fine after a week.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Dawne/Klusek/PICT4028_zps6ufgfu2x.jpg

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[trailblazer295]

Glad you got her back even after all this time. Sounds like you're ready to handle her. Hope she behaves herself.

[Sylphie]

I hope too! And now I'm having more tricks in my sleeves, so all should be okay :)

[Sylphie]

The little one decided to shed yesterday, so I take some pics. He's still eating nicely, and the mites are gone for now too, so he's a happy little guy.

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http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/SylphieW/Klusek%20II/PICT4061_zpsuqtktuyy.jpg

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[Albert Clark]

He looks very handsome Sylph! Try making sure he has one very tight fitting hide. That will make him feel more secure during feeding times. Hahaha.

[macandchz]

i like the pink mouth on that one. is that the Russian rat snake? He's cute!

[Sylphie]

Thank you!

Albert, he normally has a lot of paper tubes, I just take them out for pics :)

mac, yes, I really like his pinky nose too! Unfortunately no new pics of Russians as they are all in shed, I'll try taking some pics as soon as I can.

[Sylphie]

Ha! She ate without problems, I didn't even needed to wiggle the rat :D I'm so happy!

[Pogie]

Ohhh we have twins! I didn't see this thread, soooo sorry!!! Beautiful snakes :)
And you are right my new baby looks just like yours lol!
Love, love LOVE his markings :Wow:

[Sylphie]

Pogie, thank you!

[Sylphie]

Some new pics : D Both are doing great and eating like a champs, so I'm super happy with them!

As my sister is visiting I decided to use her and do outdoor pics of all our snakes :) I'll start with the balls, as some of the snakes are in shed and we need to wait few days to make the pics of them.

http://i.imgur.com/6up6sNc.jpg

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[Sylphie]

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[Sylphie]

No new pics at the moment beside these where Klusek was thinking he's a tree python ;) They both do perfectly fine, eating like a champs (they will attack anything that moves near their hides in hopes it's food!) and growing nicely. We definitely will try to pair them when they'll be ready! And we also need to find some new balls to at to the collection in future too.

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[Sylphie]

Some fresh pics of our firefly boy that is now for sale ;)

http://i.imgur.com/undefined.jpg

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[Tsubaki]

They look great! nice pictures :D