My New Python

RetiredGreyFox · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:14

Andr3w said:
ouch dmpoole, poor little buggas lol, never thought of getting anymore?
I bet that guys arm was destroyed letting all them snakes nibble his arm, do small snake bites hurt much?

The 3rd hid under the two that were dead but about 3 months later it escaped and instead of finding it behind a radiator (as usual) it found a hole in the floorboards and decided to live under there. My youngest daughter saw it one morning and held onto its tail before it wriggled free and went down the hole and we never saw it again

The bloke told me another funny story.
He was called out to a guy who had bought a secondhand vivarium off a bloke who kept a tarantula but it had died.
He said that he was sure there was something in the vivarium with his new lizard and true enough he lifted up the bricks and there was a tarantula.
The original guy didn't know that tarantulas shed their skin and he thought the skin was his dead spider

J1234 · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:16

dmpoole said:
He said that he was sure there was something in the vivarium with his new lizard and true enough he lifted up the bricks and there was a tarantula.
The original guy didn't know that tarantulas shed their skin and he thought the skin was his dead spider

Haha, you can have so much fun with spider sheds, they look very real.

RetiredGreyFox · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:18

Justin said:
Haha, you can have so much fun with spider sheds, they look very real.

Tell me about it.
In the 80's I ended up in my Personnel Dept nearly getting the sack because I placed a tarantula skin by some women

J1234 · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:19

Haha, sounds funny, snake sheds can be fun too but not as good as spider sheds.

Andr3w · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:22

lol about the spider skin!!

How oftern do snakes shed their skin and why :confused:

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The video you posted with the annoconda is scary :eek:

J1234 · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:24

Andr3w said:
lol about the spider skin!!

How oftern do snakes shed their skin and why ?

The video you posted with the annoconda is scary

They litrally outgrow their skin so they shed when they are growing. They usually shed about once a month usually but sometimes longer depends how fast their growing and they shed less regularly when they are fully grown.

RetiredGreyFox · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:34

Amazingly even though I gave at least 50 snake skins away I never saw one of my snakes shedding. I had to wait for a mate to ring me and I watched his.

J1234 · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:36

I've never seen any of mine shed either!