I'm getting one tomorrow 
Does anyone else have one of these and are they good pets?
Does anyone else have one of these and are they good pets?
Royal Python
I used to - she was a lovely snake sadly missed.
Not the most interesting pet ever lol, but well behaved, easy to handle and ate defrosted, warmed mice with no problem.
She was an escape artist though
Worst time was when I moved house. Shut her in her vivarium in a bedroom but she still managed to disappear Found her in the bathroom
coiled round a pipe. And she would NOT let go! Had to wait until she got cold to uncoil her then had to sit with her under my jumper trying to raise her body temperature.
Not the most interesting pet ever lol, but well behaved, easy to handle and ate defrosted, warmed mice with no problem.
She was an escape artist though
Worst time was when I moved house. Shut her in her vivarium in a bedroom but she still managed to disappear
Found her in the bathroom coiled round a pipe. And she would NOT let go! Had to wait until she got cold to uncoil her then had to sit with her under my jumper trying to raise her body temperature.
Originally Posted by StressMonkey:
“I used to - she was a lovely snake sadly missed.
Not the most interesting pet ever lol, but well behaved, easy to handle and ate defrosted, warmed mice with no problem.
She was an escape artist though
Worst time was when I moved house. Shut her in her vivarium in a bedroom but she still managed to disappear Found her in the bathroom coiled round a pipe. And she would NOT let go! Had to wait until she got cold to uncoil her then had to sit with her under my jumper trying to raise her body temperature.”
“I used to - she was a lovely snake sadly missed.
Not the most interesting pet ever lol, but well behaved, easy to handle and ate defrosted, warmed mice with no problem.
She was an escape artist though
Worst time was when I moved house. Shut her in her vivarium in a bedroom but she still managed to disappear
Found her in the bathroom coiled round a pipe. And she would NOT let go! Had to wait until she got cold to uncoil her then had to sit with her under my jumper trying to raise her body temperature.”
I'll have to make sure I watch him then lol
royals are lovely snakes
my friend has one, they can be picky feeders - hers is very undersized for his age as he wouldn;t make the switch from mice to rats
he's finally done it though, so he's slowly being fattened up
the other thing they may have trouble with is shedding, monty has one bulging eye due to poor eye-cap shedding, he's due to have it removed soon as it's started to go a bit funny
another royal i knew at college, flex, had the same problem and had to have one of his eyes removed
it can happen with any snake though, i have a cali king and always check her skins for eye caps, just in case
my friend has one, they can be picky feeders - hers is very undersized for his age as he wouldn;t make the switch from mice to rats
he's finally done it though, so he's slowly being fattened up
the other thing they may have trouble with is shedding, monty has one bulging eye due to poor eye-cap shedding, he's due to have it removed soon as it's started to go a bit funny
another royal i knew at college, flex, had the same problem and had to have one of his eyes removed
it can happen with any snake though, i have a cali king and always check her skins for eye caps, just in case
I've got a CB10 one called Tyr (amongst other snakes) and he's lovely but very very lazy and I rarely see him.
Originally Posted by ShaunIOW:
“I've got a CB10 one called Tyr (amongst other snakes) and he's lovely but very very lazy and I rarely see him.”
“I've got a CB10 one called Tyr (amongst other snakes) and he's lovely but very very lazy and I rarely see him.”
What morph is he?
Originally Posted by xdow:
“royals are lovely snakes
my friend has one, they can be picky feeders - hers is very undersized for his age as he wouldn;t make the switch from mice to rats
he's finally done it though, so he's slowly being fattened up
the other thing they may have trouble with is shedding, monty has one bulging eye due to poor eye-cap shedding, he's due to have it removed soon as it's started to go a bit funny
another royal i knew at college, flex, had the same problem and had to have one of his eyes removed
it can happen with any snake though, i have a cali king and always check her skins for eye caps, just in case”
“royals are lovely snakes
my friend has one, they can be picky feeders - hers is very undersized for his age as he wouldn;t make the switch from mice to rats
he's finally done it though, so he's slowly being fattened up
the other thing they may have trouble with is shedding, monty has one bulging eye due to poor eye-cap shedding, he's due to have it removed soon as it's started to go a bit funny
another royal i knew at college, flex, had the same problem and had to have one of his eyes removed
it can happen with any snake though, i have a cali king and always check her skins for eye caps, just in case”
I hope this one feeds ok
Originally Posted by eduble:
“What morph is he?”
“What morph is he?”
Just a normal I rehomed from someone just over a year ago - he was small for his age as he was a problem feeder and had to be force fed by his previous owner. When I got him he weighed about 260g, he now weighs 880g and eats like a pig - he's not keen on rats so gets jumbo mice and gets excited around feeding day - the other week I was just putting his mouse in and he struck at it, missed and grabbed my wrist - little bugger hung on for 5 mins and tried to wrap round it, but I didn't want to force him to let go and hurt him.
The only time I had a feeding problem with him was when I changed his substrate from aspen to beech chips and he refused to eat till I put aspen back.
With yours make sure he has plenty of hiding space as royals stress easy and like to feel secure.
