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Babies are tricky feeders at first, but I don't make mine available until they are feeding. Using Tuna for scenting or frogs or lizards, is quite useful in starting babies. I have several pair of mine feeding on pinkies now. They all click in eventually, and I usually have September babies eating by xmas. I often just use the pinky pump for the first few months to get some size on them.
In the wild babies they eat frogs and lizards and this is why they sometimes are stubborn on pinkies.
Once they start eating, they are great captives, and eat great, and are easy to breed. Every one looks different,and there is quite a variation incolor from pure black and whites to reddish ones .They stay small( a few feet) and are quite low maintenence.
They do bite however!! as do most snakes. I guess if you handle them they might calm down, but I don't pick up my charges much, and solomons will often "launch" themselves instantly as soon as the trays open. They have extremely good feeding responses and excellent aim, and take dead , alive, rats or mice, not fussy.
They'll breed at 3or 4 years of age, litters range from a dozen to 40 depending on size and age.
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Just about if that care sheet is accurate and if not your correction. It also doesnt really say how big they get but it says average. Im assuming thats around 4-6 feet?
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