The joy of Radix

[Mandi0284]

Awesome looking snakes. Radix definatly are good looking.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Hope you'r big girl heals up nicely.After reading this thread through I just have to get my hands on some radix!Does anyone know if sjoerd is bringing any to Doncaster?

[chris-uk]

Yes and very much appreciated by the not so new but still new members

I took a few photos of the healed injuries yesterday, when I get a chance I'll post some before and after pics.

Hope you'r big girl heals up nicely.After reading this thread through I just have to get my hands on some radix!Does anyone know if sjoerd is bringing any to Doncaster?

Thanks William, I consider her healed now as the scales won't grow back.
I'm sure Sjoerd is bringing some radix or Donny, I believe all the "tangerine" line are reserved but he should have others that have a less orange stripe.

[EasternGirl]

Thanks for the update, Chris. Good news all around. Now...I want to see a post that a little baby Joseph (did I get the name right?) has been born. On August 31st!

[chris-uk]

Time to roll out the old radix thread for an update. Both of our radix are doing well.

Lipwig (the male) is continuing to eat in a binge/starve pattern. He actually went through three sheds in a three month period in the run up to the New Year (the last one being the partial retained shed that I posted about). He seems to be getting on well with Vlad, but he hasn't been as good an influence on Vlad as 'Dora has been on Lacci.

Adora Belle - I look at her and think that she is older than Lipwig, but we have no way to know how old she is, she could be anything from 3 years up. She's one of my most consistent eaters and is also one of the most likely to slither straight out into my hands when I open the door.

One interesting observation recently - 'Dora was really active over the holiday period, "pacing" up and down almost every time I went into the snake room. She slowed back to normal a week or so ago, and in the last few days she's pushed out a few jellies. It was almost like she went through a cycle or "got to get pregnant... got to get pregnant before the eggs go off..." and now that she's not got her way she's shedding the unused eggs. Does that tie in with other female behaviour? Actively looking for a male and then throwing jellies?

[guidofatherof5]

It's either that or she's looking for a place to throw the eggs. Just an idea.

[guidofatherof5]

Glad to hear the U.K. radixes are doing so well. There are some T.radix Ranch radixes in Bonn now.

[chris-uk]

It's either that or she's looking for a place to throw the eggs. Just an idea.

She doesn't care where she drops the jellies. Adora Belle is like a bull in a china shop most of the time, and isn't a snake that needs to find a nice secure place in the viv (half the time she sleeps in the open, which must confuse Lacci who likes a nice hide).

[chris-uk]

Adora Belle is still throwing the odd jelly. Seems to be the same deal as last year. She's been off food since just before the first jelly and has been throwing one or two at a time for a few weeks.
She passed two today, both about 20mm long and 5-10mm across - orange colour with a harder outer and soft inside (almost granular in texture). The earlier jellies were much more poorly defined, little more than smears of the granular jelly. I'm hoping she'll stop soon and start eating again.

[chris-uk]

Adora stopped throwing jellies after about a month. She went of her food during the time when she was throwing jellies, but now she's back in eating mode and putting the food away. She's weighing in at 227g having lost 22g during her non-eating spell.

Lipwig went off his food for a month or two and started eating again at the end of March. He's always gone through feast and fast cycles, when he's eating he's a good aggressive eater and pack it away. He weighed in at 68g which was just a 2g drop during his two month fast. He shed today, and had a massive spurt in activity for hours after the shed.

Now a photo of Adora Belle, Char called me in to the snake room earlier this evening to see something I had to see - I'm calling it "The Radix Knot".