Re: Hatchling size?

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Posted by Patrick Alexander on August 27, 2000 at 15:51:04:

In Reply to: Re: Hatchling size? posted by Ronda on August 27, 2000 at 15:24:33:

: Hi!

: Flavirufa hatchlings are anything but small. My hatchlings could easily eat small fuzzy mice right after their first shed. No problem eaters, either . . . just nice robust baby snakes! The eggs must have been a good 3" long.

Woohoo. Maybe I'll have to move them up a notch or two on my get-a-pair-when-I-actually-have-space-and-money (ha! like that's ever gonna happen!) list...

: My adults, on the other hand, can be a little finicky. They will typically grab a mouse readily, but if they see me moving around in my reptile room, they won't eat it. They have also gone through a few "I don't want frozen mice" phases, but they snap out of it after a few feedings.

Are your adults wild-caught? Don't remember even seeing c.b. flav. flav. for more than the past year or so... But, hey, as long as they are willing to eat often enough, a little finickyness isn't going to hurt anything but my blood pressure. :)

: I'm not sure what you consider a "smallish" snake, but my adults are larger than my corn snakes. By the way, I have E. flavirufa flavirufa. Maybe the subspecies pardalina is smaller?

Hrm. Maybe I'm just confused, but I remember seeing their adult length listed as around 2-3' somewhere... Although now that I bother checking the internet more thoroughly and such, I see that the flavirufa page on "Ratsnakes of North America" both (a), exists (it didn't last I checked, but that's been a good while), and (b), lists their adult length as 5 to 5.5', with a northern form of E. f. flav. only reaching 3-4 feet. So I guess I'm just confused. :) Thanks for information.

Patrick Alexander

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: : Hi! : : Flavirufa hatchlings are anything but small. My hatchlings could easily eat small fuzzy mice right after their first shed. No problem eaters, either . . . just nice robust baby snakes! The eggs must have been a good 3" long. : Woohoo. Maybe I'll have to move them up a notch or two on my get-a-pair-when-I-actually-have-space-and-money (ha! like that's ever gonna happen!) list... : : My adults, on the other hand, can be a little finicky. They will typically grab a mouse readily, but if they see me moving around in my reptile room, they won't eat it. They have also gone through a few "I don't want frozen mice" phases, but they snap out of it after a few feedings. : Are your adults wild-caught? Don't remember even seeing c.b. flav. flav. for more than the past year or so... But, hey, as long as they are willing to eat often enough, a little finickyness isn't going to hurt anything but my blood pressure. :) : : I'm not sure what you consider a "smallish" snake, but my adults are larger than my corn snakes. By the way, I have E. flavirufa flavirufa. Maybe the subspecies pardalina is smaller? : Hrm. Maybe I'm just confused, but I remember seeing their adult length listed as around 2-3' somewhere... <shrug> Although now that I bother checking the internet more thoroughly and such, I see that the flavirufa page on "Ratsnakes of North America" both (a), exists (it didn't last I checked, but that's been a good while), and (b), lists their adult length as 5 to 5.5', with a northern form of E. f. flav. only reaching 3-4 feet. So I guess I'm just confused. :) Thanks for information. : Patrick Alexander

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