Yes, and I sort of want a snow hog but I don’t think I’ll be adding any hogs to my collection in the future (trying to narrow my collection focus a little).
Currently Yin is my biggest and by far my oldest snake. 15 year old LTC australian water python liasis fuscus, 9 feet, 12-14lbs. Acts like a very hungry but peaceful retic, if you know their general moods. Dumat will eventually surpass her when he grows up.
Crappy ass my-view-from-work photo, but I think it shows just how blue Anders is getting lately.
The strike ‘position’ doesn’t always mean pissy or agitated. It is almost entirely dependent on the frequency of their tongue movements and movements of the head. If the tongue is consistently flicking, then the snake is fine and dandy, if the snake’s tongue barely flicks and his eyes are fixated on one spot, and he is unmoving, then you should worry.
It all depends on the individual. Seraph does the latter of those two and would nail a stranger, and Anders easily fixates on things that will begin to rile him up. You just need to know what to do in the situation, whether that’s to communicate, shake their attention loose or get out of their business.
Ah, you see, my experience is with the larger constrictors, so it’s pretty easy to justify their movements and what not. The smaller snakes, for me are somewhat more difficult to tell when they are riled up or not
Definitely. Larger critters are a different can of worms and Yin never gets in anything like this unless she really, really means it.
Texas rats are just… special, sometimes.
The strike ‘position’ doesn’t always mean pissy or agitated. It is almost entirely dependent on the frequency of their tongue movements and movements of the head. If the tongue is consistently flicking, then the snake is fine and dandy, if the snake’s tongue barely flicks and his eyes are fixated on one spot, and he is unmoving, then you should worry.
It all depends on the individual. Seraph does the latter of those two and would nail a stranger, and Anders easily fixates on things that will begin to rile him up. You just need to know what to do in the situation, whether that’s to communicate, shake their attention loose or get out of their business.
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Letting the internet check in on Seraph. He’s been sick and finishing a round of fortaz IM shots, already doing a lot better.
His strike positions don’t mean piss off, they mean I have to approach diplomatically. Like so.
If only I had the space one of these would totally end up with me. Maybe sometime in the future. Stunning. This girl is available here.
State of the Eggs! Not… much different than previous egg photos but whatevs.
The three good eggs are, well, good! They don’t feel dry, don’t feel so wet the shells are thin, they smell good, I thiiink I saw veins in all three? CROSSING THE FINGERS. The boob of dud on 3? (hence why it got a question mark) dried out, and there are wastelandy little cracks along that side but the egg seems to have recovered.
The bad egg…. well. It always oozed since I put it in so I quickly separated it and tried a few things to make it all work out, but no. No hints of possible veins, all that… grossness, and it stinks. I’ll probably be throwing it out by the end of the day.
(the opposite of Albinism)
The second pic is of a Mexican Black Kingsnake (Lampropletis getula nigrita) & they are black w/o having melanism.
Incorrect, actually. It’s a melanistic dione ratsnake.
Lesser Royal Python (Python regius)Molly Molly Molly.
Nice photos, although she looks a little unsettled in the first one :/
She’s not at all.
