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 Growing well

Hi all,
just thought I’d share our latest photos of our Tai Beauty, Rex. You can see how well he’s grown since we had him, which is just short of two years.

The photo of him in my hand shows him as we bought him , he was about 6 months old then. The latest photos might not show it very well, but he’s now in excess of 6 ft and is eating well, we hope he will grow to about 9ft, which according to the fact sheets I’ve read says he could do it quite easily, but we will have to wait and see.

Hope you like the phots and Rexs’ lovely colourings.

Gaz



01/17/06  03:27pm

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Crittermom
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  Message To: Socrates   In reference to Message Id: 609631


 Growing well

Wow he is huge!! Very nice snake!



01/18/06  12:47am

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Shander
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  Message To: Socrates   In reference to Message Id: 609631


 Growing well

what a friggin’ beauty



01/18/06  11:26pm

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  Message To: Shander   In reference to Message Id: 611530


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Frigging beauty indeed



01/19/06  09:36am

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  Message To: CaptainJack   In reference to Message Id: 611795


 Growing well

Nice snake!



01/19/06  08:35pm

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  Message To: Socrates   In reference to Message Id: 609631


 Growing well

WOW, he grew like a weed. Naracou won’t get even close to that for atleast three more years. Congrats, he’s absolutely magnificent!



02/01/06  10:28am

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Socrates
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  Message To: Dragondreamer   In reference to Message Id: 630444


 Growing well

Thanks Dragon dreamer,
he’s now 2 1/2 years old and getting thicker and longer all the time, still very well behaved though!!



02/01/06  01:57pm

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Jessica71
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  Message To: Socrates   In reference to Message Id: 630609


 Growing well

He is a fantastic specimen! So cute when he was little, and big and handsome now. He looks very well fed and happy. Lovely pics, thank you!



02/01/06  06:06pm

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  Message To: Jessica71   In reference to Message Id: 630937


 Growing well

Gaz, out of interest what substrate do you use for Rex? I posted below because I’m finding aspen seems too dry for my trinkets to shed properly whereas it is great for corns - I’m wondering if Asian rat snakes tend to need higher humidity than aspen can offer. Sorry, I’m not meaning to hijack your thread! Thanks, Jessica



02/01/06  06:24pm

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  Message To: Jessica71   In reference to Message Id: 630966


 Growing well

WOW! That is one outstanding snake! One of my daughters has a Taiwan Beauty which is almost 2.5 feet long now. Hopefully, he (Mushu) grows as well as Rex did. I’m gonna show my daughter your pics. I’m sure that she’ll be well pleased at Mushu’s potential.

Thanks for sharing!



02/02/06  11:29am

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Socrates
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  Message To: Jessica71   In reference to Message Id: 630966


 Growing well

Hi Jessica,
we use something called Hempcore. It is recommended by the place we got him from up in Bristol, they keep all their reptiles on this stuff. It is relatively easy to keep clean, helps keep the humidity at a reasonable level (though I do not know what it should be at, we keep it extra humid when he’s shedding and he never has any problems now).

Even though we bought a great big bag in bulk, we’ve not had any probs (as of yet) with mites or any such stuff. Fingers crossed it stays that way as well. I think there may be a photo of the substrate on one of my pics, will have to have a look to confirm. Hope this helps you in some way, thanks for the reply as well.

Gaz



02/02/06  02:02pm

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  Message To: The_Thunderer   In reference to Message Id: 631921


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Welcome mate, hope yours grows as well as ours!!

Gaz



02/02/06  02:05pm

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  Message To: Socrates   In reference to Message Id: 632120


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Thanks for your reply Gaz, I’ll look into that!



02/02/06  06:06pm


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