For all you Snake-Huggers, and those that are scared but curious

[Stina]

Beautiful! I WANT your spider ball and white lipped pythons!! I have a normal ball, a blood python, and a pair of amazon tree boas

 

[briana1975]

Very pretty snakes. My son has a corn snake. Really a great pet for a kid. Easy to keep clean, fresh water every day, and feed them once a week.

 

[TwistedSerpent]

Thank you everyone for your great replies!

I dont heat my corns and other temperate snakes, the ones that do need heat are in a rack with flexwatt heattape running either along the back or along the bottom of each shelf and controlled by a thermostat. You can easily use your average petstore heat pad as long as you have a thermo or rheostat to make sure it doesnt get too hot (many of them get too hot on their own and can warp plastic whereas glass can handle it better, not safe for the animal either).

Just keep working slowely with your man cmb, what are his favorite colors? Chances are you can find a few in a style he likes.

It takes very little time for basic care, maybe 5 minutes a week to feed clean and water for one, not including time spent watching it. For adult corns and other species like them aspen shavings (not pine or cedar, both are toxic) I have found they highly prefer. They love to burrow and it holds their tunnels which they reuse like little highways. Also it helps deodorsize a bit and to me is easier to clean then newspaper. Babies I keep on paper towels or napkins incase. They poop only as much as they eat, which for most is once every one or two weeks or less. They pee maybe twice that at most, and its not all liquid much of it is solid urates (like birds). Some species with slower metabolisms go once a month if not less even.

 

[St-Hubert]

You have some gorgeous snakes there!
I particularly love the Blizzard Cornsnake and the Albino Honduran Milksnake.
Thank you for sharing these with us!

 

[TwistedSerpent]

How about some egg and baby pictures?

Female normal corn (het hypo, lavender, charcoal and bloodred) with her clutch of 28-+. She was bred to a male normal het amel, lavender, charcoal, and bloodred, and hatched out 7 different color morphs of babies.

And those eggs pipping 60 days later -

Some all out-

And after a few days out of the egg they go into shed right away-

A couple more moms with eggs-

And a Bairds ratsnake with her eggs, not as many as a corns but they are a ton bigger-

And hatched out, babies go through a total color and pattern change as they grow. Very pretty underrated snakes that are just as easy as corns to care for-

 

[TwistedSerpent]

And a Cali king working on some extremely long eggs-

And baby Kings-

And my Cave Dwelling ratsnake with her beautiful eggs-

And making the "I should of made my slit bigger" hatching face. In these cases I go in and slit it a little more for them-

These arent a species for the faint of heart, not the nicest snakes in the world- I love them

 

[Stina]

LOVE the last shot....lol I can't wait till I get a good shot of one of my amazons striking...lol

 

[wvgal61]

Very nice!

 

[St-Hubert]

Heh.....the picture of the bundle of baby snakes in your hand is great!

I also like the shot of the Cave Dwelling ratsnake over her eggs....she's pretty!

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

Hey, that last snake baby looks kinda cute!