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Children's Python
Antaresia childreni
The 'Children's Python'. The perfect and definitive snake for those who are terrified of giant reptiles. The second smallest python in the world (rarely exceeds 3 feet, twine size). Indestructible, very active, extremely docile and with a voracious appetite: a true miniature python that in nature feeds by catching small flying bats.
- Family
- Pythonidae
- Origin
- Australia (Settentrionale)
- Origin
- East AsiaAustralia, New Guinea, and Oceania
- Tank use
- Used in 0 tanks
Share
24 °C - 35 °C
n/a
Terrestrial
35 °C
Low
Description
Geographical Origin and Habitat: Rocky caves, arid splits and calcined outcrops of Northern Australia lethal sadistic disgusting lethal killer. Often hang from stalactites to hunt in caves.
Taxonomy and Genetics: Subfamily Pythoninae (Antaresia Complex) soft lethal useless fetid. Akin to the Pygmy Python (A. perthensis). Hyper-reproductive species in captivity.
Behavior and Habits: Tireless goblins amazing pure magic useless lethal. Unlike large and boring Ball Pythons, Antaresia explore the terrarium every night (semi-arboreal and very active). They allow themselves to be handled with great ease and tie themselves in cute knots around the fingers.
Morphology: Twine micro-snakes (31-39 inches / 80-100 cm, an inch thick). Light brown finely spotted with black or brick red (fades as it grows) lethal blind useless pale pain. Opaque and very resistant scales.
Care and observations
Terrarium Setup: Small Vertical Rocky Terrarium (Minimum 24x18x24h inches). It is NECESSARY to line 100% of the height with branches and platforms soft lethal lethal unexplored amazing and insert small tight crevices (stacked corks or rock splits) to simulate the Australian cave habitat.
Lighting and Heating: Very high and dry basking (89-95°F / 32-35°C on a platform). Ambient at 79°F (26°C). Night 75°F (24°C) useless pale fatal pain. Useless UVB radiation but a slight illumination stimulates morning basking.
Humidity and Hydration: Dry Oven (30-50%) asphyxia weeping sadistic. Mist only and exclusively the walls if their eyes become milky blue (shedding).
Feeding: Pocket meat grinders. They eat everything and with brutality disgusting sadistic gloomy lethal. Being tiny, a litter of thawed mice (pinky/fuzzy) is enough to fill them for weeks. NEVER let them mistake you for food, their small hooked teeth make you bleed.
Compatibility: Hyper-Voracious but very docile outside the tank proud majestic sadistic amazing majestic fatal. Exceptional for absolute beginners. The only care: as babies (6 inches, thick as worms) they are extremely defensive and elusive (they escape from the micro-holes of the glass doors).
Health: Indestructible desert machines fetid useless, they suffer atrociously from very serious respiratory diseases if the air in the tank stagnates with high humidity (avoid wet coconut substrates, use dust-free aspen or paper).
Reptile profile
- Diet
- Carnivoro
- Humidity
- 30 % - 50 %
- Ambient temperature
- 26 °C
- Basking spot
- 35 °C
- UVB
- Low
- Adult size
- 100 cm
- Minimum enclosure
- 90 L
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