I picked up my new Taiwan Beauty yesterday. Those pics aren't the best quality and were taken from a crappy cell phone... I need to take some from a real digital camera. The snake's 6' long now and the terrarium's 100 gallons.
I have someone who owns a reptile sanctuary in the region who's going to sex the snake for me. It will be interesting to see just how agressive it is... It's been in a much smaller tank for about a year at a pet shop and not really handled in that time. They were able to clean the tank with the snake in it and not get tagged, but nobody ever took it out and handled it. Apparently it would lunge at them occasionally for show, but never actually struck.
I'm going to leave it alone for a few more days and then feed it. After that, will start working on handling it to see how manageable it is at the moment. Depending on it's temperment, may have to start with as little as once a week or twice a week.
It's one Hell of a beautiful snake, but those crappy pics don't do it justice. I'll be sure to post some better ones as I get them.
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