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03-22-13, 06:21 PM
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Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Hello all!
This is my lovely lady Rosca. She is [as you can tell] a bally. She is about six feet long and if I had to guess, about 9-10 years old. I say that because I've only owned her for going on three years; before that she was a classroom pet for roughly seven years, and before that, a rescue. If you knotted white lines in the pictures, she does have a few scars. Rosca was a rescue from Hurricane Katrina; after the storm many (wild) snakes were about and someone, seeing her, attempted to hack her up with a hoe / shovel. A volunteer fire fighter happen to see, recognize her species, and rescue her, and through some fate she came into the hands of my teacher, who later retired, gave her to my lacrosse coach, and then gave her to me.
I've developed an increasing interest in ballies as a hobby, and am currently planning to build her a wooden glass (or thermoplastic)-front tank approx 4x3x2, contrasting her current 40gal tank. I want to find a male bumblebee ball python baby to raise and breed her to.... one day! But for now I'm perfecting my handling of her. When I got her, I kept her as the teacher had kept her- with news paper in the bottom and nothing but some PVC pipes to climb on and a red tub of water. Recently I switched her to wood chips, got some decor, and made a hidey-hut from her oversized water tub. I thought some community input of care / habitat construction would be useful, and so here we are!
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03-23-13, 05:35 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
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03-23-13, 06:00 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Welcome, is there a chance you could measure her more accurately cos six foot would be a really long ball python
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03-23-13, 07:51 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Welcome! If she really is 6 foot that will be the biggest ball I've ever heard of. I had a ball that was 5 foot 2 inches and I never thought I would have heard of one bigger than that! Really cool story tho! I'm glad she made it through all that
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03-23-13, 08:10 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
hi and welcome!
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03-23-13, 08:28 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
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Nice to have you join us. She is a beauty.
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03-23-13, 09:28 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Hello and welcome
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03-23-13, 10:14 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
*five!! I'm sorry. I was thinking "sixty inches" and put six feet :P No if she was six feet I wouldnt be comfortable housing her in a 40gal. She seems to shed over-frequently for an adult though; I kinda hope she's not growing. Temp and humidity is fine though, so I'm not sure what else it would be
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03-31-13, 03:04 PM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Five foot is reasonable lol it's cool she's really big tho and my big ball shed quite often she's prolly not growing much more tho maybe jus fatter
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03-31-13, 03:18 PM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Hi and welcome.
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03-31-13, 03:44 PM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Hi there, welcome to the forums! 
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03-31-13, 05:05 PM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Welcome aboard!
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03-31-13, 05:22 PM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Beautiful BP!
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04-05-13, 06:40 PM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Second pic is pretty light coloration for a normal phase, no? Always love the wild type look, how nature intended. Shes pretty. I don't want to ask husbandry questions but since you came here for input, and your teacher gave you the setup, is the top a screen top?
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04-11-13, 04:56 AM
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Re: Greetings from Destiny! (and Rosca)
Beautiful python you have there, and welcome to forums. Looking forward to more pictures and seeing the new enclosure you plan on buildig
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