Not a Chinese Beauty...

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Originally Posted by Scubadiver59

Picked up the new charge, viv, and stand, then drove home arriving after 2230...a long day at work (0615-1415) and on the road (1415-2230)! The new tenant is in a medium sized Sterlite tub for the night, which is big enough for movement, but it's definitely smaller that the snake's usual dwelling.

The viv wasn't what I expected but it's sufficient for now, and the stand is is a homemade "piece of work" that will work, but I don't know if I'm going to use it,

The snake...is everything I expected and quite squirmy, like my CP, but not as strong as the CP. The snake alone was worth the four bills I paid! I'll try to take a pic or two tomorrow...if it lets me!

One thing that is annoying--nobody gives you a clean cage any more!!! The Hogg Island Boa's 20gal was really pathetic inside, like a spitting cobra had been the cage and spit on the inside for the past two years...that took a bit of elbow grease and Softscrub abrasive cleaner to clean up right.

This time the substrate is still in the Beauty's cage, and so is some solidified excrement pasted to the floor in a large pile...sure it gives me something to do tomorrow, to clean out his cage, but it's not what I wanted to do if I didn't have to. Sure, the water hose will make quick work of most of the "stuff", but come on people!

Yea I've gotten stuck twice; Driving for 5 hours to get the animal and then two hours of scraping, cleaning and sanitizing the tank before returning the snake to it... Talk about a long day... I'm old so it would wipe me out...

Keep us posted! I'm dieing to see if your guy calms down after a while... When I got mine he would musk really, really bad... He did that for about two months and then just stopped it... I kind of miss it... It's Kind of like Patchouli... You kind of like it, but boy is it powerful...