Alkaline wrote:Ya, he's a couple of months old. I think maybe 5 or 6
Somebody is being less than truthful. A captive bred Dasypeltis would never reach 50cm in a 5 or 6 months. That would take a number of years. I suspect you have been sold a wild caught animal. There is no way your friend "captive bred" and raised this snake.
The fact that he is "still aggressive" is a dead give away. A captive bred snake that has been raised to this size will no longer scale rub unless provoked.
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