Reptiles

Man, I'm so glad everyone over here has yet to do that. That albino carpet is had was a nightmare to feed though. Stay up till 12 warm the fuzzy way to hot. Drop it on one of the perches near him come back in thr morning and hope it was gone. Wouldn't even look at anything offered on tongs

 

This is the first time he ate in 6months. Even if I just left the mouse in the tank. Not alot is known about this breed of snake unfortunately. It's a viper boa

 

It can be tough with them I had a buddy years ago that was trying to breed them. But establishing a wc group to breed is always a pain. Any idea if yours is wild caught or captive bred?

 

Oh it's definitely wild caught. Me and my buddy figured that out the hard way. I had 2 of them 1 died a week after I hot them. My buddies died 2 days after he brought it home. We got them from. A reptile expo. All from the same seller. My buddy also got 3 turtles from that guy and all 3 turtles died. My guess he's selling sick animals

 

The wild caught market is so rough. Only ethical thing with it if your knowingly buying them is to try and establish breeders so we can have a captive bred population for keepers. If a seller is offering wc it needs to be made really apparent to buyers so they are aware and can take appropriate steps for success.
It sucks you ended up losing one alot of the time they just don't adapt and thrive.

Iv been struggling to find captive bred white lipped pythons still but I know a few guys trying so fingers crossed they succeed this year. As there's no way I'm gambling on wc examples.

 

I had to check out what a white lipped python was. And man they are cool looking

 

Right, I had one that was wild caught and it just didn't adapt unfortunately. So i will just continue to wait until someone dials in how to breed them. I also have my eyes on a papuan python but we will see that is alot of pesos.