Shesha Pictures

Shesha is my lovely pet Stimson’s Python!

Note that I am not a biologist or veterinarian while I do my best to research the information that I list here, different sources say different information, and I am ultimately a hobbyist who likes to read about this topic, not an expert. Do not take everything I say as absolute fact, and do your own research!

Fun Shesha facts:

Born 1st December 2021.
She is approximately 1 meter long! It’s hard for me to measure her exact length as she generally doesn’t stretch out straight but this is usually how long she ends up.
Her hobbies include long naps, roaming her enclosure, staring at me all evening, and locating tight spaces.
As a python, she is totally non venomous! She has evolved to hunt pray through constriction with her powerful muscles. Due to her small size, she doesn’t pose much of a threat to anyone though! Certified not really a danger-noodle unless you are a small mouse or rat.
Stimson’s Pythons are a popular species of pet snake in Australia, as they’re quite small, very docile, and can meet all of their nutritional needs with just mice and/or rats, which can be fairly easily bought frozen from farms.
Stimsons Pythons are a member of the Antaresia genus, who are notable for being the smallest family of pythons in the world!
Despite having evolved a shovel-shaped head to assist in digging, she’s not terribly interested in tunnelling, but loves to climb and get a high up point of view to keep an eye on everything.

Current Shesha status: On Wednesday morning I checked on her and found that she had moved from her cold hibernation spot to her warm-ish (kept at 26° during winter) cave! Hopefully this is a sign that she’s going to start slowly waking up from hibernation soon, since she went in to hibernation about a month before winter started which seemed a bit enthusiastic to me.

Pictures:

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A picture of Shesha the snake laying in her enclosure. A picture of Shesha the snake, she is resting her head on-top of her cave-style hide. Shesha the snake is curled up and mostly hidden inside of a small cave-style snake hide. Her face and part of her body can be seen peaking out through the door. Shesha hibernating in a small plastic hide. Only part of her body can be seen through the doorway into the hide. Shesha the snake slithers on a glass table and looks at a pencil. Her head is only twice as thick as the pencil is. Shesha the snake is perched on-top of the edge of her enclosure, with her head resting on the enclosure door looking towards the camera. The angle makes it look as if she has a serine smile. Shesha the snake poking her head out from a log and resting it on-top of a rung on a tiny ladder. Shesha the snake peeks out at you from the door of her enclosure, flicking her tongue out towards you. Shesha the snake's head and tail poke out from her leaves. Shesha the snake's eyes shine adorably as she rests her head next to her tail. Shesha the snake, she is shedding and just the scales on top of and below her head have come off, leaving them hanging by her neck like a frill. Shesha pokes her head out of a green box of shapes, poking her tongue out and sniffing towards the camera Shesha slithers out of a hole in the wall onto some wooden dowels, which she has to balance to stay on to. Shesha is sleeping next to a plant pot. She is layered over herself, and only her snout can be seen poking out from between two coils of her body. Shesha the snake slithers along a glass table and along the edge of a tea cup. Shesha the snake looks towards the camera, the camera angle gives her a goofy expression. Shesha looks at the camera from very close up, slightly blurry from the closeness.