My Blood Pythons - Page 2

Feebo · 02-08-10, 05:12 PM

Cheers, yeah you`ve got to be on your toes with these guys....

Will0W783 · 02-08-10, 06:33 PM

Gotta love the snapperheads!

shaunyboy · 02-28-10, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Feebo

Yeeeah.... I like the way they can`t just be handled just like that aswell, and the way I have to be so careful around the bigger one, he`ll be hiding and watching what I`m doing in his tank and he`s often quite hard to spot ! The strike on these guys is phenominal too !!

their gorgeous mate.my mates black blood gave me the strongest feeding response ive had to date.its the only response thats literally made me jump.i was shaking the rat in front of him for ages and he lay that still i was just about to shout to my mate that there was something wrong with his blood.( it lay there that still it appeared to be dead ).just as i was about to shout through it struck.wahl for the bulkyness and size of these dudes they cant have move.the strength of the strike was like nothing ive ever felt (my adult carpets hit quite hard).a mate of mine reckons bloods can hit that hard they could break a human leg.from what i witnessed i tend to believe him.
cheers shaun

shaunyboy · 02-28-10, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Feebo

Will do ! lol

I think as angry snakes go, my biggest Blood really isn`t bad at all, he`s never actually tried to bite, he`s just a bit arsey, he doesn`t want to be bothered. He`s quite hard to hang on to when I do get him out, Bloods are all soft aren`t they?! lol They feel like a beer belly or something lol He`s improved loads since I got him so maybe he`ll get better still as he gets older. I`d like to be able to handle him for longer than thirty seconds really lol Blimey I can`t imagine being able to do a course of injections on him !! I bet that`s going to be fun if I ever have to inject that guy ! lol

it took 3 grown men to restrain my mates borneo blood when injecting it.even with that it was pulling us all over the place (it wasnt even full grown).it was a tame blood who loved being handled so i can only imagine what a grumpy blood would have been like.
cheers shaun

Feebo · 02-28-10, 06:41 PM

I dread to think what it`ll be like to inject Sunday!! lol I think darts and an air gun might be a better bet ! lol I had a spare rat at the end of todays feeding so I gave it to Sunday being as he`s getting so huge. He`s like the snake room hoover now lol I use him to hoover up leftover rats lol As you say, they`ll sit there looking dead, such a cumbersome snake hardly looks like it can move like these guys do either, then BANG!!!! It`s like bloody lightning isn`t it!! Sunday usually stalks his way up to about a foot away from his dinner and then hits it too fast for my eye to see, I just feel a bump on the tongs and hear a bang, that`s it. I think "Formidable" is a good word for these guys...

emseeKAY · 02-28-10, 08:52 PM

well get ready for the "pant filler" hahaha i laughed quite hard when i read through this thread just because of that quote hehehe, beauty snakes though they just look powerful!

Feebo · 03-01-10, 05:40 PM

lol I have been told I`ve got a way with words lol

Feebo · 04-20-10, 04:23 PM

I took a shot of my big grumpy Blood python yesterday to show the guy I bought him from, he`s such a biffer now ! He`s such a handful I can`t imagine a small alligator would be any more difficult to wrangle, he`s THAT difficult to deal with lol Here he is with my phone for scale. The female is getting there too, I`ll be able to breed her in a few years.....

marvelfreak · 04-21-10, 01:06 AM

Man is he getting huge. I bet you feeding rabbits by now. What size food do you feed him? How big around is he now?

Will0W783 · 04-21-10, 07:54 AM

Big boy! Bloods can get absolutely massive! I have a friend who has a 5.5 foot, 16 pound female Borneo blood. She's immense!!

Feebo · 04-22-10, 02:12 AM

He`s impossible to measure obviously but I suppose he`s over four feet. Thickness wise he`s thinker than my arms, he`s about as thick as the thickest part of your lower leg. The little female I`m growing on is making excellent progress too, she`s really getting big! She`s on small rats and the big one gets a large rat sometimes followed by another large rat that someone else has refused lol Yup, he`s the snake room hoover, that was his destiny lol ;D

Will0W783 · 04-22-10, 08:36 AM

Haha, yeah bloods are hungry buggers. My snake room hoover is Baby, my 8+foot super dwarf retic. She;s grown quite a bit since I got her.

Feebo · 04-23-10, 02:48 AM

Those are really beautiful snakes but I don`t think I`ll ever have one. Too big ! I don`t think it`s the sort of thing you can have if you want a load of other snakes too, no rom ! Besides, they scare me just a little those things lol a fourteen foot Boa is big enough for me I think thankyoo!