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Old 03-28-18, 10:13 PM   #1
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Pics of Jerkface

He’s dull and his colors are muddy so I think he’s going into shed. He was a lot redder when I brought him home.
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Old 03-29-18, 07:12 AM   #2
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Don't worry, they get more colorful with every shed until they reach adulthood. Very cool snakes, but I just wish that they were a bit more diurnal and displayed better in the daytime. Mine are all laid back and great eaters. Beautiful snakes!
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Nice looking critter phenyx.

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Thanks! Feeding issues aside, he's a pretty cool little dude. He's really gentle and chill when I handle him.
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Old 03-29-18, 09:33 PM   #5
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He ate a fuzzy tonight!
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Don't worry, they get more colorful with every shed until they reach adulthood. Very cool snakes, but I just wish that they were a bit more diurnal and displayed better in the daytime. Mine are all laid back and great eaters. Beautiful snakes!
Mine comes out off and on all day some days more then others but I really like being able to see her out and about
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He’s dull and his colors are muddy so I think he’s going into shed. He was a lot redder when I brought him home.
Very pretty how old is he and may I ask why you call him jerkface?
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Very pretty how old is he and may I ask why you call him jerkface?
I think he's about 2 months old.

About his name...initially I named him Salazar (my BP is Nagini) but there were some early feeding difficulties in which he would ignore a live pinky for 29 hours (he actually ate that one) and a second in which he ignored it for over 48 hours. He never did eat the second and I had to euthanize the poor thing.

The 48 hours with the pinky just wrecked me and I had to find ways to laugh to keep from crying. During this process, I was doing cage maintenance and my husband overheard me call him a little jerk (for not killing the pinky promptly) and cracked up saying "Did you just call your snake a jerk?" "Jerkface" came out of that. It relieved the stress. His last two feedings have been f/t and he's eaten both within a few hours.

It's probably temporary. He's supposedly a male, but when he's a bit bigger I'll have him sexed properly and decide on a final name at that point.
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Ah, but he'll forever be Jerkface to us. He's a looker, even pre-shed. Very glad he's taken some f/t.
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I'm glad he ate for you phenyx. The hunger ALWAYS wins in the end.
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I think he's about 2 months old.

About his name...initially I named him Salazar (my BP is Nagini) but there were some early feeding difficulties in which he would ignore a live pinky for 29 hours (he actually ate that one) and a second in which he ignored it for over 48 hours. He never did eat the second and I had to euthanize the poor thing.

The 48 hours with the pinky just wrecked me and I had to find ways to laugh to keep from crying. During this process, I was doing cage maintenance and my husband overheard me call him a little jerk (for not killing the pinky promptly) and cracked up saying "Did you just call your snake a jerk?" "Jerkface" came out of that. It relieved the stress. His last two feedings have been f/t and he's eaten both within a few hours.

It's probably temporary. He's supposedly a male, but when he's a bit bigger I'll have him sexed properly and decide on a final name at that point.
Great story thanks for sharing. Mine had problems eating at first as well so I understand the frustration I thought for sure she was going to die of starvation. It does get better I promise you. She's a great eater now, she is 6 months old.
She is super dull in these pictures she shed that night.


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Oh she's a beauty! Do you know what she weighs now?
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Thank you I'm not sure.
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Oh what a difference a shed makes! He’s all bright and pretty again.
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Oh what a difference a shed makes!
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