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My Creamsicle Stripe!

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Pooleh

Happy new snake owner!
Here are some pictures of my first snake! Isn't she such a beautiful snake!?
 

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Zoo Girl she is a very curious snake, although as I type this she is hidden under her bedding somewhere lol. The store that I got her from said that they handled her all the time and she was always great. I had her out for a few today and she was crawling all over me just checking me out.
 
First feed at home!

Today I had my first feed with my Creamsicle. It was interesting, in most of the feeding vids I've seen the snake almost always strikes at the mouse. I wiggled the thawed mouse in front of her a bit and she didn't take it. As soon as I sent it down she ever so gently started eating it. She was so gentle lol. I also noticed that for about 15 min after I put her back into her viv she was climbing around like crazy. She even stuck her head in her water dish and gulped down some water :) Here are some pics, let me know what you think and does her bulge look about the right size (pic 3 right there by her head)? I want to make sure I keep giving her the correct size mice (she got this one down very easily).
 

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I come back and no comments, whats going on here! ;) JK figured I'd do a shameless bump, I would really like some input as to how you all think this feed went.
 
Haha, everyone needs a bump every once in a while lol... looks like the right size mouse and if you get sick of the snake, let me know ;)
 
Somehow I don't think I'll ever get tired of her, maybe for lots and lots of money so I could put together a big fancy room dedicated to corns :D. Although she is my first so it would be pretty hard to give her up.
 
beautiful cream stripe! I bought one a few years ago as a hatchling, and 30ish snakes later she's still probably my favorite!
 
That is exactly the way my snow eats! Very gentle and doesn't strike at all so that I believe is normal.

For an answer to your question on the food, if you cannot see a lump after 24 hours you can increase the size of the feeding.

I am no expert, and do not claim to be one :) But, I also weigh my prey items. If I don't see much of a lump after a feeding then I try to move up 1 g. in the mouse size for the next one. I don't really go by pinkie,fuzzy,hopper ect. So like now one of my corns is on 7g. mice but this last feeding the lump wasn't very noticeable so the next feeding will be 8g. Hope this helps.
 
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