River - New Thai Bamboo Ratsnake Girl

Charis · 07-08-13, 07:32 PM

This girl is one of Serenity's sisters and would actually have been my second choice when I picked Serenity out. A corn snake keeper friend ended up with her but she won't take mice with hair and has started being a sporadic feeder, so this friend gave her to me to see if I can straighten her out. Hopefully we can!

She has these wonderful little yellow highlights along her black stripes. She's a fair bit smaller than Serenity.

Was having a little bit of a hard time getting the color saturation right, something that happens a lot trying to get pictures of this species, we've found.

Charis · 07-08-13, 07:33 PM

Amadeus · 07-08-13, 07:35 PM

Amazing snake.

marvelfreak · 07-08-13, 07:36 PM

Wow she is gorgeous.

sweatshirt · 07-08-13, 08:41 PM

She is a stunning girl!

Dave Kelley · 07-08-13, 08:48 PM

Asian rats are such beautiful creatures. This one is gorgeous!

Mark Taylor · 07-09-13, 04:33 AM

The colour is awesome

so are the pics.
Good luck getting it to take hairy mice

**Pareeeee** · 07-09-13, 06:44 AM

Man that snake is striking. How big do they get? Good luck with the feeding issues.

I sense a pattern...River...Serenity...you must be a Firefly fan

red ink · 07-09-13, 06:50 AM

Stunning snake mate

franks · 07-09-13, 07:03 AM

I like the black saddle on her head. Will she grow up to remain that dark red?

Charis · 07-09-13, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Pareeeee

Man that snake is striking. How big do they get? Good luck with the feeding issues.

I sense a pattern...River...Serenity...you must be a Firefly fan

You guessed it! If you knew some of the other snakes' names, you'd know for sure! Our Mandarin ratsnake pair are Inara and Malcolm and our BRB female is Zoë, just waiting to find her a good Wash before completing that pair. And we have the perfect Jayne, except that it's unsexed right now and my husband doesn't want to name it that if it's not a male.
Started up the Firefly theme with Serenity, so her future mate isn't named in the same theme.

They get to around 3 to 4 feet generally. They usually mature fast and are mostly full grown at 2 years. Serenity had been in shed but was out and about last night shedding and I was a bit taken aback by the size difference, knew River was smaller but she's actually closer to half the size of Serenity.

**Pareeeee** · 07-09-13, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Charis

You guessed it! If you knew some of the other snakes' names, you'd know for sure! Our Mandarin ratsnake pair are Inara and Malcolm and our BRB female is Zoë, just waiting to find her a good Wash before completing that pair. And we have the perfect Jayne, except that it's unsexed right now and my husband doesn't want to name it that if it's not a male.
Started up the Firefly theme with Serenity, so her future mate isn't named in the same theme.

Haha awesome! I love Firefly, such a good show. Two of my pets have geeky names, Rodney McKay (my crestie) is from Stargate: Atlantis, and Kahless (my BP) is a Star Trek Klingon name.

Charis · 07-09-13, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by franks

I like the black saddle on her head. Will she grow up to remain that dark red?

Mostly. Will probably lighten a little bit with age but coxi usually retain their color and patterns well.

DragonsEye · 07-13-13, 12:37 PM

Lovely creature. Hope you can get the hairy mice issue straightened out. Be quite the pain in the arse shaving all those mice before meal time.

mmarchl23 · 07-13-13, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DragonsEye

Lovely creature. Hope you can get the hairy mice issue straightened out. Be quite the pain in the arse shaving all those mice before meal time.

Worst case I'm sure someone some where sells bald mice. Kinda like the naked cats and mole rats. Could get pricey though.