Hello there!

[Poets]

Hello everyone

Just saying hello to introduce myself. My name is Thomas, I am from the Netherlands and have 1 T.R. Radix. I got it at Nijmegen from Gijs and Sabine (hello!) the snake is doing very well and has a GREAT appetite.

Here som pics:
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/poedts/Scannen0030.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/poedts/Scannen0027.jpg

[Thamnophis]

Hi Thomas, very good looking snake you bought.
And... welcome here ofcourse.

[Stefan-A]

Welcome aboard. Nice radix you have there.

[Elliot]

That's a great looking snake!

[Cazador]

Welcome to thamnophis.com, Poets. Those radix have beautiful heads.

"Boots" is the administrator of this excellent forum. I bet if you sent him a private message or an e-mail, he could change the flag under your screen name to show that you're from the Netherlands.
Rick

[Gijs & Sabine]

Hi Poets, welcome here !
I'm very pleased to hear that she is doing great.
Here are pics of her beautifull mom.

Best wishes Gijs & Sabine
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/P1010128_Medium_.JPG
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/P1010243_Medium_.JPG

[reptileparadise]

welcome here!
very nice t.r.radix, both of them!
i should have done my homework a bit better when i pmed you Gijs & Sabine...radix made me think about something like this (http://www.herp-pix.org/thamnophis/radix88.JPG)

[Gijs & Sabine]

Well, that's a radix as well, Sjoerd. But not as orange as ours. The colours of radix is very different.
For example we also have a dougther of this big female of 3 years old, and her stripe is also not very orange. And her bodycolour is almost grey-blue, like a sirtalis florida blue.

[Poets]

Thank you for posting these great pictures of my snakes mother Sabine en Gijs.. I was feeding her a few days ago, but she wouldt eat from het bowl... When I picked her up she suddenly lashed out at the fish and started eating het meal while on my hand! That was very cool to look at... is she used to being fed by hand? That would explain the behaviour

[Gijs & Sabine]

Hi Poets, no she's never fed by hand. I feed almost all our snakes like this.
They're used to it and it's easy, but I always have to be aware that they are not eating eachother.
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/7311/jongeradixra5.jpg (http://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http://load.imageshack.us/)

[abcat1993]

How do you keep that many fish in there without them going bad?

[Eddie von]

I'm new to the forum. Anyway, I inherited a T. sirtalis infernalis that was captured in coastal southern California a few years back. However, the previous owner noticed a growth on the left-rear of the top of its head. My guess is that it may be a fungus so I have her in a dry enclosure with a water bowl and am thinking of treating it with applications ofanti-fungal cream.

I can providee a photo letr in the week.

[Cazador]

Hi Eddie,
I have a real soft spot for T.s. infernalis, so I hope your snake gets better. A "growth" could be a lot of things from injury to parasitic infection or even a tumor. Please be sure to provide close up photos of the spot in question. Also look very closely at the eyes, nares (nasal openings), mouth, and vent (cloaca) for swelling, discoloration, puss, leakage, or anything else unusual. If the snake has been caged with a fungal infection for any length of time, there will probably be signs around moist body openings. Sometimes it helps to take pictures of these areas, so you can carefully examine them at your leisure instead of having to deal with an agitated, or fleeing, snake.

When you're ready to post pictures or give more details, you should start a new thread, so your comments don't get lost within other discussions. There are a lot of people on this forum with a wide range of knowledge and experience, so hopefully you'll find the help you need. Best of luck,
Rick

[Markus18]

Hello Poets!!
You have a very nice Radix!He looks very very good!

[hjelte]

Beautiful!. I have a little girl that is just about the same size, only she is a morph wich I belive is called "anery" or "anerythristic" or something with another spelling=) I´ll post pictures this afternoon!

[Spiderqwan]

Hi poets and welcome aboard