Chris, i'm probably the closest one to you

Once they reopen the coastal road, we should organise something down there.

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eyyy another herp person! Yep, its actually coastal carpet, although there was a whole lot of mix up when I got him. They gave me a recipt for "jungle carpet" but I'm pretty sure it's a coastal carpet. How old is your diamond? Mines still a hatchling, so I'm trying to keep the handling up as much as possible, cause he's still biting.

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I have been really lucky with my guy, He's about 18 months old now and has been a dream since I got him. From the word go he was a good eater taking straight to pinkies, then fuzzies then full grown live and dead food he has no promblem with either. He has never bitten anyone and I hardy handle him (I go through fazez of handling him when I have time). He is so docile he just hangs around when I take him out and puts up with my kids poking and pulling on him.

The only thing I worry about is that he gets bored stuck in his box all day.

WOW damn you are lucky!! I'm having a lot of trouble with mine.. He bites alot, although he's calmed down now. But feeding is not easy, I've managed to feed him once in 4 months. I've tried everything except live mice. So I guess that's next.. Hope that works...

Hahaha if there are more than 2 people around mine, he gets very defencive and trys attacking everyone.

Yeh, I know what you mean about the getting bored sitting in there all day. But they are pretty lazy animals.. if mines not sleeping under his rock, he's on top of it lying in the heat. I think he enjoys it... I've got lots a tree branches in there, but he doesn't seem too interested in them.

I put an underfloor heater in my box and he really loves it. Keeps the temp at a nice 24 degrees (28 is best) and because he has a water bowk on the floor it keeps the box nice and humid. I originally bought him a hide rock (like a false rock with a hole in it. He loves it and was alway in there looking out, but he outgrew it and everytime he tried to sqeeze in it would fall off the purch it was on. I then bought a canary breading box which is basically a wooden box with a hole in the front and a lid you can open. Plan was to attach it to the side be he likes it on the floor of so much I have just left it there.

I have a friend around the corner (and admittedly he's a bit of a goose with his snake) he cant get it to each so he put a live mouse in and just left it. After a few days the mouse got so hungry it attacked the snake LOL and they had to pull it out. I have been told to just keep offering it, sooner or later he will be hungry enough. The other idea is to catch a small skink lizard and run it (dead) on a couple of pinky or fuzzy mice and they may take that, when they are young they eat skinks.

PM me your email address and I'll send some pix.

i hope you didnt have the canaries in it

my student has a carpet python, its little, about 40cm long
he bought some mice from the pets shop, one boy, one girl

apparently you're not allowed to chuck 'em in live (animal cruelty), but i find that grabbing them by the tail and throwing against the wall not too kind as well

his friend has a 1m python, they fed it a rat once
crap, after bashin it a couple of times against the wall it wouldnt die so they chucked it in with the snake after a couple of days and the snake scooped it right up

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