new members of the family

[terry4505]

Thursday I adopted my very sick cousin's 8' Retic, juvenile Red Tail boa, and baby red foot tortoise. These three join the 3 BP's, female RTB, baby JCP, baby corn snake, veiled chameleon, green Iguana, and a pair of juvi beardies.

her condition made it impossible to care for her animals, and my fiance and I were glad to take care of them, but I had to leave 6 other snakes In her boyfriends care,(or lack there of) which is weighing heavily on my mind, I offered to take the other snakes as well, but I think he sees them as a chance to make money, and not something that need care and time.

the retic was in pretty bad shape when I got her home, very dehydrated, and in need of a meal, I have treated both snakes for mites, got them some water, and the retic took a med rat last night with no hesitation. It has been really satisfying to see these animals come around so quickly, I will get some pics up soon, of the whole family, and see what I can do about getting the rest of those snakes away from the boyfriend.

seeing as she is my first retic, any info that i might not have found on the NERD website, or the Kingsnake caresheet would be great.

[ball21]

Well its great to here your doing something good for the animals and your cousin. With the retic i would recomend a hook. I have found that even retics that are super nice can be fiesty in the cage. And the best way to win over a retic is with food. lol i dotn know what size cage you have it in now but if you plan on keeping it you could move it up to an adult size cage. A 6x3x18 would be great. but if you have the room a 2ft high cage is always a alot easier to deal with the snake in. i hope i helped a littile. If you have anymore ? feel free to ask. And good job again helpin out.

[terry4505]

thanks for the advice, a hook is def. something we need, right now she is in a 3x2x18 cage, and is ready to be moved into something bigger, luckily last month I got the itch and built a 4x5x2, 7 compartment super snake condominium, so she will move into one of those soon