Not a Chinese Beauty...

Scubadiver59 · 05-21-17, 12:20 PM

Well, some consider Taiwan part of China, but it's not...yet! Behold the Taiwanese Beauty Snake! Anyway, this is the snake I'm picking up tomorrow night, complete with cage and stand, from a seller south of me...

Yes, it's an adult, about three years old. The cage is PVC, stand is wood, getting the lot for under $500. Pickup is scheduled for 6pm tomorrow night...then a 3hr drive home.

dannybgoode · 05-21-17, 12:56 PM

One of the snakes I'd like to finish the collection.

Note they are quite arboreal by nature and a taller viv would benefit. This has the advantage of freeing up this viv for something else

**EL Ziggy** · 05-21-17, 01:18 PM

Very nice critter Scuba. Good score!

dave himself · 05-21-17, 01:40 PM

Beautiful beauty mate

Scubadiver59 · 05-21-17, 02:06 PM

Ill have to get with BoaMaster and see what he can do for me since I'm not especially versed in woodworking.

Do you think a 4'x2'x4' (lwh) would be sufficient?

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Originally Posted by dannybgoode

One of the snakes I'd like to finish the collection.

Note they are quite arboreal by nature and a taller viv would benefit. This has the advantage of freeing up this viv for something else

dannybgoode · 05-21-17, 02:09 PM

Depends how much space you have. I may even go 6' high - it'll all be used.

Nice pick up though and can't argue with the price.

whistlepig · 05-21-17, 07:35 PM

Beautiful snake. Congrats! You are on one heck of a snake buying streak, haha.

sattva · 05-21-17, 09:02 PM

Yep! That's a Beauty snake... I just love my guy... Their known for not being able to be held very easily but my guy calms right down when I hold him... Congratulation on your find...

Scubadiver59 · 05-22-17, 01:48 AM

This is it for a while...my Dwarf/SD and D'Alberts Pythons can wait for a bit.

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Originally Posted by whistlepig

Beautiful snake. Congrats! You are on one heck of a snake buying streak, haha.

dannybgoode · 05-22-17, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Scubadiver59

This is it for a while...my Dwarf/SD and D'Alberts Pythons can wait for a bit.

Are you saying if you stumbled across a really nice SD retic you'd pass?!

Scubadiver59 · 05-22-17, 06:05 AM

Well, as fast as they sell out, as they did at Dave Clark's, then I might be sorely tempted; however, Dave told me he should have some eggs hatching in June/July so my wait might be justified.

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Originally Posted by dannybgoode

Are you saying if you stumbled across a really nice SD retic you'd pass?!

trailblazer295 · 05-22-17, 06:19 AM

Beautiful snake, always liked the colours and pattern on these guys.

Scubadiver59 · 05-22-17, 09:27 PM

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!

sattva · 05-23-17, 08:19 AM

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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...

Scubadiver59 · 05-23-17, 12:06 PM

The viv had some actual rocks mounted to the back wall, the kind of rocks you'd stick to a wall around a fireplace, veneer material. Anyway, one of them fell off and now I have to re-glue the rock back in place and one other that's a little loose; I think they used aquarium sealant, globs in varous places, to hold them in place, but the snake liked climbing on them. I just have to secure the loose ones and let it cure overnight.

Got the cage (66"x28"x17" (lwh) internal) sprayed out with the hose, but I need to sanitize with some 5% chlorine solution and then I'm gonna use Reptibark vice Cypress, the previous substrate. The seller was also using some halogen lights vice a CHE or a RHP, shining the light through the screens at the top. I'll probably go CHE since there isn't a lot of "meat" to the top of the cage, it's actually a molded PVC cage, and not a PVC laminated cage. I'll just feed a probe from the side and hang it down by the hide. There are a lot of screens at the top, I've gotta wonder how humidity is going to be maintained. I'll probably block a few of them up but I'll probably try a basking light, mid cage, over the top of some furniture I got with one of my other snakes.

As far as the snake goes...he didn't put up a big fight when I moved him into the 110L Sterlite that I use for the Carpet previously; I put his hide in there along with some water. When I looked in on him earlier he was out so I thought I'd open up the top and see if he wanted to come out to look around; he gracefully declined and slithered into his hide, but when I touched his body and tail, using my whole hand, he never flinched...a good sign I hope. Either that, or he's faking and he'll do like the Pine did and go psycho on me!

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Originally Posted by sattva

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...