Ready to Rumble

**EL Ziggy** · 06-16-17, 11:32 AM

Nigel shed and pooped last night. That means he's definitely ready to eat. His last meal was 12 days ago. He's growing fast!

**Tsubaki** · 06-16-17, 11:45 AM

What a Beauty!!

he sure is growing fast, nice!

**Minkness** · 06-16-17, 07:13 PM

He looks like velvet....does he feel like velvet?

**EL Ziggy** · 06-16-17, 08:05 PM

@ Mink- He is pretty smooth

. Much different feel than my my bulls or carpets.

sattva · 06-16-17, 08:47 PM

Wow what a beautiful animal... Wish I had one... But then again there is like 15 snakes I want but there is no more room... BOO HOO...

Jim Smith · 06-16-17, 08:49 PM

Pretty boy! I love the smooth velvety look of your Olive Python.

dave himself · 06-17-17, 01:39 AM

He's definitely growing, and getting better looking every time you post pics mate

TeamSlitherin · 06-17-17, 03:44 AM

Wow, what a stunner!!

**EL Ziggy** · 06-17-17, 08:59 AM

Thanks all. He's quickly become my 3rd favorite snake

. I love his really intense feeding response but he's also a lot of fun to handle and not nippy at all outside his viv. Part of the reason he's growing so fast is because the little albino carpet on the other half of the enclosure will only eat rats about 60% of the time. Oh but she loves mice

. So last night Nigel got her rejected rat pup in addition to his small rat.

**EL Ziggy** · 06-17-17, 09:17 AM

She's sweet, pretty, and I love her but she's definitely my most finicky feeder. My little headache.

toddnbecka · 06-18-17, 01:10 AM

Looking great, tempting too, though I'm holding firm on refusing to add an olive to my crew. Keeping an eye out for a savu or two though, such wee pythons are much easier to house than the large ones. Is the finicky albino carpet growing noticeably more slowly with less food intake? My IJ is taking 3 adult mice weekly now, refuses to go near rats of any size.

**EL Ziggy** · 06-18-17, 11:22 AM

@ TnB- The finicky carpet is growing much slower than my other regularly eating carpets did. She was 116g when I got her on 1/11/17. She was 177g today. That's a gain of 60g in the 5 months that I've had her. My coastal gained 420g in his first 5 months and my jungle gained 235g in his first 5 months with me. The olive has gained over 450g since January. He was 141g on arrival 1/4/17. He was 571g on 5/17. I'm sure he's somewhere around 650g now. Part of that is because he gets all the albino's refusals. She never takes food from tongs so I have to leave a rat in her enclosure overnight. If it's still there by 6am the next morning it goes to the olive. I gave her my last jumbo mouse 2 weeks ago and it was gone in 10 minutes. I just placed another feeder order last Friday and gave in and ordered 25 jumbo mice. I really want to get a little more size on her so I'll probably let her have mice for awhile and try to transition her to rats again later. If she insists on being a 'mouser' then she'll never get more than 2 at a time. If she wants more food then she'll learn to eat rats like the rest of my snakes. A real pain in the knee this one is.

IKhaos · 06-18-17, 12:10 PM

Oh my gosh Ziggy your snakes are absolutely gorgeous man! that is awesome!

trailblazer295 · 06-18-17, 12:54 PM

That Olive is stunning Ziggy, keep the pictures coming. You need to get that beauty outdoors in the sun

**EL Ziggy** · 06-18-17, 12:57 PM

Thanks y'all. You're so right about the outside pics Blaze. I'm just paranoid some hawk or other bird of prey might make a meal of my little ones.