Today, a new arrival joined my family.
Meet Vivec. He's a corn snake (if you want to get fussy about his morph, he's an Amel stripe het hypo), born on the 14th November 2014. He's settling into his new tank. After being in a car for an hour, being a little cold, and winding up in a new place, he was reasonably happy to be held, all things considered - a little flighty, but not aggressive. He buried himself straight into his bedding and hid XD Peeked in on him an hour or so later and he was winding his way along the back of the tank, having a peek about.
I'll be feeding him on Friday (I have some pinky mice all ready to go - I'm going to give Dany one as well and see what she thinks of them), and leaving him to get used to his new home for three to four weeks. Then I can start to handle him and get him used to me :3 But the initial holding went well. He's deceptively strong - he wound his tail into my mala beads and I could feel him tugging on them.
Massive thanks to Fern - every time Fern and I went into the pet shop, we were squeeing over this little pink nose booping against the enclosure, begging to be taken home. Fern called the shop last week and put him on hold, and helped me move him in and get him set up today.
He and Dany are probably never going to get more than a glimpse of each other - While given enough time, I don't think they would care about each other's presence, I don't want to stress them out by trying, especially not now. When Fern visits, they might both be out of their tanks at the same time, but I'm not planning on letting them interact.
I'll be putting some more pictures up later, Fern took them on his phone and got some very good ones of him winding around my hands.