new snake saterday!

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Yeah i know its monday, i actually picked this sonaran gopher snake up on the 11th but he immediatly went into shed when i got him home so i just let him settle in for the week.

Ive been thinking about a new snake for a while and watching Ziggys beautiful bull snakes made me interested in a Pituophis of my own, found this guy looking for a home at an expo last weekend and decided to take him in.

I am told he is 3 and a half years old and havn't actually measured him but was also told he is 6'4" and he is quite a beast. unfortunatly he took a nasty rat bite a while back so he has a little scarring but we wont have that problem since i only feed frozen.

He is currently living in an iris christmas tree box with about a billion air holes drilled into it and has yet to try to strike at me but does have a pretty frightening hiss on him. Fed him his first meal (large rat) on saterday and he seemed to hiss at it the whole time even while swallowing. Any ways just thought i would show off some cell phone pics i took of him. Enjoy!