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buffeh posted:My 3-4 year old female corn snake, which hasn't eaten for just over 3 months, is losing 4.5g a week. I have been told previously not to worry as it's a winter fast, but have recently been told elsewhere that weight loss of that amount is too fast / a problem if it was a seasonal fast. Snake weighed in at 680g a week ago. Should I be concerned? Age tells us nothing. How long is she?
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Mar 3, 2015 01:47
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buffeh posted:Very shaky maths but if she'd been losing 4.5g a week since we got her (can't be sure as first weigh in wasn't until 6 weeks after taking her home) that would put her starting weight at around 735g meaning she would have lost around 7.5% of her body weight since then. 735g for a 4.5 corn sounds pretty fuckin big. Worry when she hits like 500-550g and still isn't eating and stops drinking or whatever.
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Mar 3, 2015 19:10
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Silver Nitrate posted:I'm getting ready for my first properly prepared show. I have my containers, labels, business cards, a roll of paper towels, and hand sanitizer. I'm getting a logo designed right now it will be ready in time for the show. What else do I need to have? A lockbox for your cash with bank envelopes. They come in handier than they seem to until you're there. Though most people really don't do cash these days. I always print caresheets for first timers too.
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Mar 27, 2015 20:16
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Hood Ornament posted:The original point being that inbreeding is very common in the herp trade and isn't really seen as a problem. It's common but it's becoming looked down upon which is a good thing. We don't need it to become a problem. It is a slow moving opinion though, but I'm seeing it more and more and I like it. I don't care of that means less ball python morphs because they already have 1.9 million. Same with corns.
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Apr 28, 2015 18:45
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It all depends on your typical house temperature. If you keep your house about 68 degrees and have constant a/c, the little fans are usually alright.
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May 2, 2015 18:50
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If it's not a species you can get easily captive bred, there's probably good reason for it. Depending on what that good reason is depends on what my opinion is.
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May 6, 2015 07:02
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Fraction posted:Crestie q: how do I know if Electra is Is she jumping around a lot: could be stress, could be too warm. Could just be here. Is she firing up: stress or warm. Is she biting you: that's stress or hunger. Is she making GBS threads on you: she approves of your warm and has left a warm for you.
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May 28, 2015 16:20
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Fraction posted:Ha, so I ordered a scale and... only her body fits on, not her tail. Is that kg? Because if so she's fine. If that's just normal grams your gecko is about to disappear. Also her tail doesn't have to be on it. I use Glacier Rodents because I'm close by, but man his stuff is awesome.
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Jun 5, 2015 15:07
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I managed to convince her to stay still long enough to weigh her, and she's 0.81. Is that about normal? She'll be uhhhhh about four-five months I guess by now.
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Jun 9, 2015 06:10
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Gammatron 64 posted:I just got her in last night. They seemed to mostly feed her crickets (which isn't the best diet for an adult) but they also gave me some fruit and veggie mix. The crickets have flunker's high calcium cricket diet and some orange gel cube things. I need to get some more today as I kinda fed her too many by accident. What's the fruit and veggie mix look like? Pellets? Yoshimo posted:I need to transport my milk snake (I'm moving home) so he'll need to put up with a 2.5 hour journey by van. Will he be alright if I just keep him in his little vivarium, minus the water and heating pad? Your snake will be fine. When I transport my reptiles across the US (or across the world like that one time thanks military!) I feed the week before I leave, fast them the week we're traveling and get them set up temporarily then feed the following week. Haven't had an issue yet and I've kinda been doing this a while. Two and a half hours is nothing. He might wallop himself in the face if you leave him in his viv. I'd probably toss him in a pillowcase, zip a delicates laundry bag around him, zip tie it under the knot altogether, then settle him somewhere out of the line of a/c but still somewhere cool and dark.
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Jun 9, 2015 16:11
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Gammatron 64 posted:Nah, it's like a bag with little chopped up bits in it. Looks like chopped up carrots and green beans. It's this stuff: Try giving her some real, fresh chopped veggies and fruits and see if she eats them. If she does, toss that poo poo out.
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Jun 9, 2015 20:56
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Yellow pins, quad stripes, and reds are hot this year. Anything else isn't really selling great unless you're selling low.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:37
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Hood Ornament posted:Poachers have stolen an entire species of turtle. Every single loving Phillipine Forest Turtle. Now they need donations to try to save them all/ There is no way in hell they're going to do anything other than lose like 80% of them anyway.
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Jun 20, 2015 18:09
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Mist once a day.
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Jun 20, 2015 19:42
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Fraction posted:Permanently or just to let the levels drop? You are way overthinkin' this man. I dunno, maybe there's some enviromental humidity coming into play or something since it's summer. If it gets dryer, mist twice a day, wetter? Once or less. With all the moss and stuff in there I imagine it won't get too dry unless you go like five or six days without misting. You don't want her too wet, but as long as she's got something to drink, food, a good temp, good weight, good poops and she's shedding good? You're good to go.
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Jun 20, 2015 19:57
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Leperflesh posted:Everything FB said is right, but one thing you can do is make sure there's reasonably good airflow in/out of the vivarium. This is true. Fraction's in england, though, so I wouldn't think it'd be dryish in there unless she has a dehumidifier or some such. Could totally be wrong though. Everywhere's weather's so hosed it's pretty neat.
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Jun 22, 2015 21:16
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I'm sorry to say it's going to turn her into a terrorist. If you see her constructing any tiny explosive vests, tell the queen. (she'll be fine)
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Jun 22, 2015 22:28
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http://wandertokyo.com/rhinoceros-beetle-care/ obviously a few things are different over here (like the gel you might have to mail order) but yep. Rhino beetle.
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Jun 25, 2015 17:12
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Shachi posted:Need some quick advice. I paired my cresties a little over a month ago and my female now digging. I put in a lay box about where she was digging a hole but she pretty much refuses to use it. She doesn't like your laybox. What are you using in it? Bare tanks result in nothing but irritable geckos and she may straight up hold them back and then they calcify and she dies so yeah don't do that one. Some people keep male and female together but I've literally had no issue with removing him after a week or two of initial mating. No loss of fertility or whatever. And it keeps my girls in better shape in terms of being bit and hosed endlessly.
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Jul 17, 2015 01:52
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I use plain dirt for my layboxes and have only ever had one rear end in a top hat gecko who hated it. http://www.escalemodels.com/forums/uploads/monthly_08_2011/post-2198-094235900%201312467236.jpg If you mean these, that's legit what I use too. Don't bury it. I just sit it on top of the substrate and let them do their thing. She might just be feeling dry, too. Some don't show, some do. Some of my girls take 2-3 months to lay the first clutch, too.
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Jul 17, 2015 03:33
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Dude even male crested geckos dig sometimes. That's not necessarily indicative of her going into lay at all.
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Jul 17, 2015 16:09
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Yoshimo posted:The letting agency needs to re-do all the wiring in my flat, and while I don't think the electrical contractors would grass me in for having a snake (it's a no pets flat) I don't want to take the risk - will my milk snake be ok through the day if his vivarium's stashed away in a cupboard, minus the heating mat? It'll just be from approx 9-5, for two days. As long as he's not digesting he'll be fine.
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Aug 9, 2015 15:37
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freelop posted:Just got bitten by my royal python for the second time and this time it wasn't because I surprised him. Your snake is fine.
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Aug 19, 2015 20:41
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freelop posted:The skull is on the cold side and the cave is on the warm side. There are also a few more cardboard tubes dispersed about. You're in the UK right? Go to poundland. Get fake foliage from poundland. Replace it when it gets moldy or beat up. Fake flowers are totally cool. Just don't let'em in his water.
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Aug 24, 2015 15:26
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freelop posted:Went into poundland but they had no artificial foliage. Huh. Usually poundland does. Poundworld, maybe? Still, that's a good start.
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Aug 25, 2015 15:59
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Hazo posted:Done. Cool survey. Anybody want to tell me what the last snake was? I just put "Colubrid, nonvenomous." v :Looked like some kind of water snake to me. The lumps on the back of it's head were questionable with it's camo vs the general build of the snake and the face. My answer was "I'd carefully put it elsewhere, as I'm not positive it's venomous or not" but I'm leaning venomous.
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Aug 28, 2015 06:14
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Like, if it's something venomous it's a baby something venomous and it looks awfully long to be a baby anything. I'm guessing it's doing that stupid rear end "lol kill me I'm a venomous snake" poo poo that nerodia tend to do as a defense mechanism that makes people chop their little heads off. The angle of the picture has me thrown to beat all hell. It's really annoying. It's definitely no cottonmouth or copperhead I've ever seen.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:52
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Big Centipede posted:Dog faced water snake. Cerberus rynchops. I've never seen a dog faced water snake with that wonky rear end patterning. Weird morph thing going on? Or were my zoo's just boring? And hey I was right. It IS venomous.
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Aug 29, 2015 14:57
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I'm actually deeply enjoying the fact that we're all going "what the gently caress is that" because it's just such a bad picture. It's a garter. Tada. We're done. I win.
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Aug 30, 2015 09:24
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Hi that black throated monitor is going to be 10 nightmares for you and your cats are going to get eaten. You will need to feed it small pigs, chickens, and the like up to twice per day some days when it is an adult. It will be adult sized very quickly and, for all intents and purposes, should be treated like a crocodillian in terms of the potential to gently caress you up. Black throated monitors are fantastic animals. They are not pets that 99% of the population should have. I am showing deep restraint. Good me. E: Cat food vs dog food since I'm here anyway: cat food has higher protein, generally has different nutrient profiles and the like. Dog food is closer to what they need and easier to work with for their needs from what I've been taught. BTS need protein and all but I mean, you know what I'm saying SN.
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Sep 1, 2015 15:28
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I mean I'm sure you could eat a monitor but why would you want to
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Sep 1, 2015 17:53
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Leperflesh posted:Good lord. Breeder told them to feed it crickets so lol. Black throats get bigger than 50 pounds on average. Try 65ish, with one or two having hit three figures, I believe. To be honest, "a small alligator" is pretty dead on and not necessarily less dangerous. They're pretty chill, but if you piss one off I'd treat it the exact same as a goddamn gator because it will quite happily snap off fingers, and if it ends up being a very large one, you can say bye to your hand.
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Sep 1, 2015 20:02
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Silver Nitrate posted:I'd rather deal with a gator tbh they're more predictable and grow slower. And you can tape their mouth shut. Given this is a very very very very non-pro opinion but I wouldn't feed those eggs. I would just feed whole prey.
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Sep 1, 2015 21:58
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Silver Nitrate posted:It is generally a bad idea to stare directly into any lightbulbs. That might explain some problems on my end.
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Sep 8, 2015 18:17
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I got rid of my psycho candycanes because I was sick of getting bitten. They went to someone who wanted to get bitten all the time and really loved their patterns. Every single candycane I came across (except for the 2001 I ended up with until she passed earlier this year, good girl Mabel snake) has been a total fuckhead and I'm really displeased about that. I love the pattern but I like dumbass snakes that just want to chill. Not bite me all the time. I had a friend hold Harley down this morning (gently). I measured her and she's over 5'10" for sure. Which means my (almost 10 year old) corn snake is now longer than I am tall and likely is done going to younger grades because that size is pretty intimidating. Joker is only 5'3" but he's a year younger, so maybe he'll catch up some day. My hypo lavender still refuses all things with fur so I guess she's getting hairless mice when we move, though at least I'm keeping her a healthy weight. My caramel is getting fat. My tessera is probably going to move up to a larger enclosure soon. My pied bloodred and tequila sunrise didn't bite me this week, which is a first. My coral snow still hasn't sold because it's a male (not that I mind, he's so pink and he's so friendly). And my itty bitty butter worm is pounding two pinks at a time and finally is about the width of two pipecleaners.  And she's a total sweetheart. She's not going to schools any time soon simply because she's too tiny and too delicate, but I look forward to taking her. On the cresteds side, I only have a few more to sell before I'm out of them. I love'em to death but it's just not safe to transport them across the entire us in the dead of winter. The corns can handle the heater on and going a few days in a bag. The cresteds hated it last time and I'm not gonna put them through it. I'm gonna miss my mouse dude up here. He's so drat nice and his product is so clean. 
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Sep 13, 2015 17:00
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Saul, Tuco and Pinkman sounds like one hell of a party.
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Sep 22, 2015 03:05
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Soonmot posted:Silver already knows, but my Spaghetti did his first shed for me last night. So proud of my little guy! At first I thought that was a shed that split along the back and I was giving it the weirdest look. No, you just have a teeny tiny baby corn.
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Sep 26, 2015 16:19
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Your question mark looks like a little woma python.
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Sep 26, 2015 22:39
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Silver Nitrate posted:What is the least cruel way to dispatch 50 anoles so I can freeze them for feeders? An incredibly tiny broomstick.
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