my new burmese python

[ilovemypets1988]

hi all, i gave a deposit today for the burm and the breeder has let me keep him (thought it was female in previous thread but turned out to be male lol), so before putting him into his temp viv, i managed to get a few pics for all of you to enjoy :)
so here they are:

http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k514/Daniel_Barton/my%20new%20burmese%20python/06072011.jpg
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k514/Daniel_Barton/my%20new%20burmese%20python/06072011002.jpg
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k514/Daniel_Barton/my%20new%20burmese%20python/06072011001.jpg
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k514/Daniel_Barton/my%20new%20burmese%20python/06072011003.jpg

[marvelfreak]

Man he sweet looking. Congrats! After he settles in we want more pics.

[ilovemypets1988]

thas a promise, definitely more pics in a week or so

[presspirate]

Nice looking Burm. Is he hissy at all?

[ilovemypets1988]

not at all, hes very well behaved but since hes been in a temp viv, hes been striking the glass when ive looked at him, but i dont mind this at all, as hes in a new place

[ilovemypets1988]

also open to suggestions for names. i dunno what to call him tbh

[presspirate]

I named mine ghost. He is hissy in the cage, but just fine once he is out and about.

[Jenn_06]

buttercup lol.... im really bad at names, my kids been naming most of our snakes.

a lot of people say that burms are hissy my Sassy is but she never tired to bite once.

[ilovemypets1988]

my guy doesnt seem aggressive either tbh, hes just viv protective atm, but i put that down to new smells and surroundings.

he handled perfectly when he arrived without any aggression what so ever, but the usually inquisitive behaviour of the burms.

i will admit though, you could feel his strength straight away and hes quite weighty to. i love him already lol

[stephanbakir]

Grats!!!!!

[ilovemypets1988]

thanks all

[ilovemypets1988]

heres what i payed for him in canadian and american dollars:

CAD = $186

UDS = $192

would you all agree that i got a bargain

[Freebody]

Huge grats, I just love burms!

[ilovemypets1988]

thank you free

[Xochiquetzal]

very nice , he has a great pattern!

[KD35WIN.AS.ONE]

heres what i payed for him in canadian and american dollars:

CAD = $186

UDS = $192

would you all agree that i got a bargain


You paid more for one then i paid for both of mine lol

[marionsclan]

also open to suggestions for names. i dunno what to call him tbh

I would watch him for a while and then his behavior might warrant a name automatically. :)

He's a looker though. :)

[ilovemypets1988]

thas actually a very gd idea thanks

[Will0W783]

He's very handsome. I think that $192 is a tad high for a young albino, but it really depends on his bloodlines and the customer service of the breeder. I see them going for $125 at shows all the time, and I got my adults basically for free as both were rescues. Buying from a breeder, if you don't have experience with giants though, is definitely the way to go...that way you aren't risking health problems that rescues can have.

[ilovemypets1988]

yh true and the seller definitely seems to be a brilliant breeder as i still cant believe that he let me keep hold of the burm with only a deposit as i havnt even gave him the full amount for the snake and yet he let me keep the snake to let him acclimatize to his new surroundings, at the risk of repeating myself, but thats what i call customer service lol

[Lankyrob]

I think generally snske prices over here are higher than over there anyways.

[ilovemypets1988]

this wait to hold my new burm is killing me, i just want to get him out and hold him, but i know that i must use my patience, although, what i do, do is, i open the viv for an hour a day and if he feels like he wants to come out and be held, then its his choice, neing that his temp viv is above the computer, its easy for me to keep my eye on him when the viv is open and i dont leave the room for anything while it is. im making no mistakes with this snake :)

[Dave69]

this wait to hold my new burm is killing me, i just want to get him out and hold him, but i know that i must use my patience, although, what i do, do is, i open the viv for an hour a day and if he feels like he wants to come out and be held, then its his choice, neing that his temp viv is above the computer, its easy for me to keep my eye on him when the viv is open and i dont leave the room for anything while it is. im making no mistakes with this snake :)

Its funny isnt it, there is always articles in the papers somehwere about an escaped snake, and the stupid owners normal reply is ' I just opened it for a minute'.
You are leaving yours open for an hour, you are making mistakes, and eventually you are going to mess it up, and it will be someone like you that ruins it for the rest of us.

You were scared of a bitey corn, just you wait till this gets hold of you.

[ilovemypets1988]

Its funny isnt it, there is always articles in the papers somehwere about an escaped snake, and the stupid owners normal reply is ' I just opened it for a minute'.
You are leaving yours open for an hour, you are making mistakes, and eventually you are going to mess it up, and it will be someone like you that ruins it for the rest of us.

You were scared of a bitey corn, just you wait till this gets hold of you.

dave, back off, i know what im doing, as i also said, the viv is directly above my head and i dont leave the room, the risk involved is minimal, so unless u read properly, dont comment on my threads!

[27233a]

have you not lost snakes before, or did i missread that in other threads

[ilovemypets1988]

i had lost my first snake and learned from that mistake, what makes everyone think that im thick when you will find, as some on this forum already has, that im extremely intelligent!

[annarawrr]

He looks great! I love these snakes, they're probably my favourite... Sadly I'm too poor (and small!) to have one of my own. Congratulations on your new addition to the family! :D

[ilovemypets1988]

thank you, i love burms, ive wanted 1 for 15 or so years and what a better example than the same morph and similar looking to my idols burm, things just couldnt get much better

[27233a]

i had lost my first snake and learned from that mistake, what makes everyone think that im thick when you will find, as some on this forum already has, that im extremely intelligent!

your kidding right, intelligent people know how to provide correct care and husbandry for there reptiles, to start u used to have a habit of ignoring advice from owners with many more years experiance than you because you 'read differant on the net' so far youve lost a snake, handled a leo the same time as opened a snake viv an let the leo play on the snake while u decided it would be good to take a few pics, you now got burm in a enclosure on sand with a hide thats clearly not big enough. a responsible owner would of atleast take the sand out lined with paper or kitchen roll and gave a suitable size hide. most intelligent people give up large bodied snakes when they know they have a baby on the way, you go an do the oposite an buy one!! you have a snake that potentially will need 2-3 people to handle, decisions of an intelligent person?????? hummmmmm very debatable id say

[ilovemypets1988]

your kidding right, intelligent people know how to provide correct care and husbandry for there reptiles, to start u used to have a habit of ignoring advice from owners with many more years experiance than you because you 'read differant on the net' so far youve lost a snake, handled a leo the same time as opened a snake viv an let the leo play on the snake while u decided it would be good to take a few pics, you now got burm in a enclosure on sand with a hide thats clearly not big enough. a responsible owner would of atleast take the sand out lined with paper or kitchen roll and gave a suitable size hide. most intelligent people give up large bodied snakes when they know they have a baby on the way, you go an do the oposite an buy one!! you have a snake that potentially will need 2-3 people to handle, decisions of an intelligent person?????? hummmmmm very debatable id say

do you know what, this is going over my shoulder as your not worth my time at all

[Lankyrob]

your kidding right, intelligent people know how to provide correct care and husbandry for there reptiles, to start u used to have a habit of ignoring advice from owners with many more years experiance than you because you 'read differant on the net' so far youve lost a snake, handled a leo the same time as opened a snake viv an let the leo play on the snake while u decided it would be good to take a few pics, you now got burm in a enclosure on sand with a hide thats clearly not big enough. a responsible owner would of atleast take the sand out lined with paper or kitchen roll and gave a suitable size hide. most intelligent people give up large bodied snakes when they know they have a baby on the way, you go an do the oposite an buy one!! you have a snake that potentially will need 2-3 people to handle, decisions of an intelligent person?????? hummmmmm very debatable id say


I'd say YOU need to back off - you obviously have personal beefs with ilovemypets and this IS NOT the place to air them.

[ilovemypets1988]

thanks rob but its ok, hes 1 of those guys that would shoot u in the bk and not worth wasting your time replying to him tbh, i mean i value every ones friendship on here to the highest level and its really not worth running the forum down becoz of 1 fool that likes to cause trouble.

its people like him that makes some forums unbearable but the best thing to do is to just ignore him and i wish that i could listen to my own advice and not bothered to reply to him at all, why should i lower myself for someone else, infact why should anyone lower themselves for another unless its to save a life of course :)

[Lankyrob]

No worries - i have noticed that he rarely posts and that when he does he always seems to be digging at you - you're right tho, best to just ignore.

[27233a]

hahahahahahaha yeah i do dig at him as im on other forums hes been on when he first started keeping snakes an saw first hand how he used to ignore others advice then wonder why things went wrong, and kept having to ask for new advice because of the screw ups. he told us he decided not to get a hoggie due the fact his partner was expecting an it was all about the safety when baby is born, yet he gets a burm...

[Lankyrob]

A) you said "used to" - we all made mistakes when we started out (unless of course you are perfect)
B) i also wouldnt have a venomous snake in the house with children, my opinion, but would have no problem with a large snake in the house with children.
C) as stated before this forum is not the place for constantly hassling people just cos youknow them from somewhere else - if you have nothing constructive to say then say nothing.

[ilovemypets1988]

all im gunna say rob is that its funny how someone thinks they can judge a person or situation when they dont live that persons life or have even met the person nor are they in the situation that the specific person is in :)

[KD35WIN.AS.ONE]

@ilovemypets Yea waste of time to bother with these kids, hes only on here to bother you. I really don't see why he cares anyways? its not his baby that's going to be in the house with the Burm.. Anyways id get the Burm off the sand though lol thats the only valid point he made that i could see, the rest were just personal attacks.

[ilovemypets1988]

well hes off the sand now and onto beech chips, the sand was quite literally a quick decision as i had someone unexpectedly call at the door who is that affraid of snakes that they will faint if they saw 1 in my hands, they dont mind so much when they are in there vivs, and trying to be considerate, i just put the snake into the viv with the sand for the 15 minutes that the visit lasted, then the sand was changed with beech chips, which he is on now and has already filled his water bowl full of them lol typical python i suppose.

as for the viv itself, im fully aware of the fact that its way too small for him but im in the process of building his viv, ive got the wood, i just need to cut it and screw it together and then get the sliding glass for the front and the runners for the glass to go onto in the first place, ive also got sealant, its not perfect stuff but it will be suffice to do the job needed.

once the viv has actually been made, it wont take me long to get hold of the general criteria for the burm, i.e. heat lamp fixings, thermometers and so on.

i wont need hides as i will be making corner hides that face the back wall of the viv for him to feel extra secure within his home, which should make for a happy snake, the heat lamp will be directly above 1 of his hides and give him central heating within it lol.

[Necrias]

Man absolutely gorgeous burm... I'm about ready for another snake, having a hard time choosing between a coastal carpet from the local breeder here, an albino burm, or a female RTB to go with my male... too many damn choices!

And yes, best to ignore the guy harassing you, and even though you may have made mistakes at least you are on here trying to learn and correct them.

[ilovemypets1988]

Man absolutely gorgeous burm... I'm about ready for another snake, having a hard time choosing between a coastal carpet from the local breeder here, an albino burm, or a female RTB to go with my male... too many damn choices!

And yes, best to ignore the guy harassing you, and even though you may have made mistakes at least you are on here trying to learn and correct them.

i kind of have to be biased and say get an albino burm, thats if your ready to take on the shear size of course, they have beautiful colouring and markings and when fully grown are as tame as a puppy sleeping.

if you can get a high orange burm (have a look on google images and you will see exactly why i suggested this colouring specifically).

i truelly believe that everyone whos had corns, boas and small pythons has gotta try to own or even just visit a friend whos got a burm and get a feel for there majestic nature and beautiful markings and so on, as you cant really believe the clarity until you see them in person.

as for jerks on here acting like children, if they cant act like civilized human beings then i fear for there animals, people are here to learn and childish attitudes turn those who needs help away, which aint gd in any way, shape or form. i have had several breeders of snakes and also had the rspca (animal welfare - council reasons) and also herp specialists come over and take a look at my snakes and they ALL agreed with the fact that they are some of the best conditioned reptiles they have seen and have actually congratulated me on supplying these stunning animals with homes within a small area.

ive had to compromise alot to have them and therefore they are very well looked after, as you can all tell from the pictures of them on here, i love my animals and would never neglect them intentionally or course them too much stress.

sorry for the long winded reply

daniel

[ilovemypets1988]

here we are, more updated pics of my burm:
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k514/Daniel_Barton/my%20new%20burmese%20python/09072011.jpg
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k514/Daniel_Barton/my%20new%20burmese%20python/09072011002.jpg
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k514/Daniel_Barton/my%20new%20burmese%20python/09072011003.jpg

[Kayla90]

How about Artemis, Levi... or Fallon ??
I unno it's hard to think of good names XD