I recently mentioned that one of our Corn snakes passed away due to an infection in her body so we had a bit of a hole to fill.
I am getting a new cat in a weeks time as my Pixel is a bit lonely I think and she can certainly do with being chased around the house a bit. We went to the pet shop to buy some disinfectant and to show my mother the Albino Burmese pythons the shop has and saw that they had baby Blood Pythons (Wikipedia).
Both Emma and I have been oogling Bloods for a while, they look a bit like normal Pythons but are swamp dwellers and so need more heat and higher humidity – usually they have a moss bed in the vivarium. They also get really fat which gives them a very distinct look.
This is our little one (more shots here), he’s very young still and had his first trip outside the vivarium yesterday, in the shop he was very feisty – hissing and striking at everything that moves – probably due to the guys there being pretty rough with them. Emma didn’t feel happy wearing the leather gloves they suggested we got so she was brave and picked it up and its a very happy and friendly snake.
He’ll grow to between 57″ and 78″ (144cm to 198cm) and will weigh between 40 and 45lbs (18 to 20kg). He might be too heavy for her to comfortably carry around but we’ll have to see how it goes I guess. Blood Pythons are endangered animals in the wild due to hunting for their skin,
