Welcome Lacey!

Yesterday, I brought home our baby Diamond Python (Morelia spilota spilota).  Excited does not cover it properly.  I had a grin from ear to ear from the moment Peter (from Reptiles Inc.) was showing me a choice of pythons from which to pick, to when I handled him\her on my own for the first time when I put her in the enclosure that I built for her.  I’ve had the same grin pretty much ever since whenever I think about her, or glance over and see her out and about.

As you can see, I have added a little picture of Lacey that I snapped quickly earlier today.  I am letting her settle for the next few days before trying to handle or feed her to minimise stress as much as possible.  If she is too stressed, she will go off her food and that will be problematic.  I don’t want to have to learn how to force feed her.

You may have noticed that I am calling her Lacey and well, her.  I don’t know the sex of Lacey yet, but, she is about the size of a shoelace at the moment so that is where we got her name from  at least.  I am taking a punt on calling Lacey a girl.  I will correct that in the even that it turns out to be wrong.  When she is more settled I will take her back to get some help with sexing her.

Interestingly, baby Diamond Pythons look very little like what they will when they are grown up in terms of their colouration.  Lacey is a sort of motely brown colour if anything at the moment.  She will grow up to be black, white and yellow in the main.  The spots you see will turn a combination of white and yellow and her dark scales will turn black.  They are a beautiful snake as adults.  In my opinion at least.  Diamond and Green Tree Pythons are my favourite snakes.  I hope to have at least one Green Tree Python one day.

For now, I am ecstatic that Lacey is home with us!  I will of course be making changes to the site to reflect that we are now owners of Dragons and Serpents!