Cruising around checking out its new home. 

I received the A. javanicus on 8-16-06. The smear of Duckweed is from Drip-Acclimating some Food--Fish!

Thankfully the Comets ate all of it before their "Visit" came to an end.

These next 4 pix are of 2 babies that I received on 11-8-06. This and the next pic are of Baby 1. This Baby died after about 5-6wks. Thankfully it did not die of the white-spot fungus.

I am not really sure what happened, but I believe it was an impaction from the Tahitian Moon Sand that I use as a substrate. Needless to say, I am eliminating that Directly.

This is Baby 2. This snake is and has been doing fine. Eats like a Champ--day or night, and is growing like a weed.

Baby 2 was housed with Baby 1. Baby 2 is perfect all around. Its Health and Vigor indicate that baby 2's death was not caused by improper Environmental Parameters.

        Just a decent shot.

These next 3 pix were taken at night while the snake was coming out to cruise around.

Needless to say, it didn't take much of the camera flash to send him back into his hide box.

I try to disturb it as little as possible. But I do like to try to document with pictures.

These next 2 pix were taken 3-1-07 of the adult hiding in one of its hide boxes. Note the body contact with the imitation Pandanus tree roots--PVC.

This snake went into a long, deep shed in January '07. Afterwards I noticed that something is wrong with its right eye. I assume its an injury suffered during feeding. I am waiting to see how it looks after the next shed.

This is the day the snake arrived. The white-spot fungus is worse than it looks in the pic, but nothing horrible. After 3 sheds its as clean as they get.

This is the current baby javanicus setup as of 3-6-07. It is plumbed into the adult javanicus' sump, so now both snakes are running on one system.

A picture of the cave setup with the corkbark used to block out a lot of the direct light.

Another pic of the cave setup.

A straight on level view of the cave entrance.

These next 4 pix are of the baby javanicus inside its cave.

Just hangin out, stayin warm and waiting on some food to swim by...

1 of 4 baby swordtails that have been in there for a while. Baby J ate the others. They are from a tank that I have that's loaded with babies--so in they go.

All-n-all: Pretty well camouflaged.

Several minutes after adding about 20 minnows to the tank, Shorty goes into ambush mode.

After about 5 minutes--Dinner is Served!

Just a Cropped Close up of the previous picture

Waiting on the 2nd course. This Baby does both hunt and ambush. The ambush seems to be showing up more lately, but for the previous months it was hunt, hunt, hunt....

  Gotcha!

Just about done with minnow #2

Finished!

Misinformation abounds on Filesnakes. Popular Opinion is that Filesnakes leave no Solid waste. Simply Not True.

I did not see any solid waste from the Arafura, but both of these javanicus' leave Solid waste--both white and dark.

Newest arrival. Arrived, bagged, mostly dry and barely damp.

This Beauty is flawless with the exception of one healing scar. No white spot. Just Beautiful!
9-5-07

At this point its a bit hard to tell, but I think this is a Female. I will wait to see how well it thickens up before I draw any conclusions.

The scar, damaged area is right inside the crease. It should heal up nicely over time.

Nice clean, close-up head shot.

After putting her in her new quarantine home.

She's moving very slowly and taking her time.

Just some pix of her cruising around checking out her new home.

She is very gentle and should settle in nicely.

I am initially very happy with the acquisition of this snake.

I offered her a couple of fish, so hopefully they will be gone by morning.
Note: Took 4-5 days for her to settle in and eat (~9-10-07). 1 Comet Goldfish gone. I changed hides to the standard hidebox that I use, so hopefully she'll be much happier with it.