More Snake Photos

[riddick07]

Nunu just after her most recent shed. She is keeping her pink really well so far and actually seems to have gained more pink throughout her sides especially the neck/head after this shed.

The not so new girl that doesn't have a name still.

 

[riddick07]

Albino Grey

Cal King

Platinum Chinese Beauty Girl

Butter Corn

Motley Sunglow

Silver Trans Pecos

Platinum Chinese Beauty Male

 

[riddick07]

Lily not outdoor but better than the others so far. She's washed out here since she's a brighter yellow than this. She is calming down now and was out twice today without issues. She actually met a non snake person today and was a perfect little snake mascot

 

[GaleriaGila]

Well, Riddick... you are really helping me stretch my awareness/appreciation of snakes...

I'm still afraid of them, but...

There's no denying that THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL.

Maybe an odd question, but--- do you think they have feelings? emotions? responses?
They seem so "cold" (cold-blooded, pun intended), but---do they have feelings????? This fascinates me.

 

[RavensGryf]

Gorgeous as always. The corns are getting big. What a great collection!

 

[Marileen]

Wooooooooooowwwww......THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

 

[ToMang07]

What a beautiful collection, I'm jealous. What is the last one? (Lily) She's huge!

 

[Scott]

They are stunningly beautiful, and I am so pleased you are sharing via my monitor!!

The Sunglow is exquisite! What sort of environment permits such a brightly colored snake?

 

[CDavis]

Absolutely beautiful I will have to snap some shots of the 70 snakes we have in the store right now there are some awesome ball python mutations that we have.

 

[riddick07]

Well, Riddick... you are really helping me stretch my awareness/appreciation of snakes...

I'm still afraid of them, but...

There's no denying that THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL.

Maybe an odd question, but--- do you think they have feelings? emotions? responses?
They seem so "cold" (cold-blooded, pun intended), but---do they have feelings????? This fascinates me.

Nothing wrong with having fears! Yeah I've seen some spiders now that I'm like okay well that's pretty but I still don't want it near me lol

The feeling/emotion debate lol. Science says no and I tend to agree. I think they have personalities to some degree. Like some want to eat my face off and others just go with whatever I want to do with them. They have some preferences but nothing like birds or dogs.

Gorgeous as always. The corns are getting big. What a great collection!

They are adults now except for the sunglow motley she still has some growing to do! I could breed the bloodred this year she's so old now

Wooooooooooowwwww......THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Thanks

What a beautiful collection, I'm jealous. What is the last one? (Lily) She's huge!

Lily is a reticulated python. Her morph is a purple Sunfire tiger. She's still a baby a year old and could possibly double or more in length. She's around 9ft or so right now. The tigers tend to be big and the females tend to be big and she's both so I don't expect a small end size with this one

I have 3 other retics besides her but they are under a year so even more baby than Lily.

They are stunningly beautiful, and I am so pleased you are sharing via my monitor!!

The Sunglow is exquisite! What sort of environment permits such a brightly colored snake?

I doubt a sunglow would occur in the wild but I could be wrong. Sunglow genetics is albino and hypo. I don't have locality info on her but she's a common bci boa or bi if we are keeping up with the name changes From the rainforests where it's warm and humid!

Absolutely beautiful I will have to snap some shots of the 70 snakes we have in the store right now there are some awesome ball python mutations that we have.

Thanks! Yeah there are a million and one ball python morphs these days and you can't tell half of them apart from each other most of the time lol I have 3 ball pythons but I'm not a huge ball python person anymore.

 

[CDavis]

I think that right now my favorite is a snow King snake that we have she's a good size and extremely active year round it's crazy. One of my coworkers has a green anaconda and a Burmese Python and they are absolutely massive.

 

[CDavis]

I think that right now my favorite is a snow King snake that we have she's a good size and extremely active year round it's crazy. One of my coworkers has a green anaconda and a Burmese Python and they are absolutely massive.

I think if I ever buy a snake it would have to be either a black head or an olive Python there is just such a natural beauty to those snakes that you just don't get from some of the morphs.

 

[Scott]

I doubt a sunglow would occur in the wild but I could be wrong. Sunglow genetics is albino and hypo. I don't have locality info on her but she's a common bci boa or bi if we are keeping up with the name changes From the rainforests where it's warm and humid!
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Thanks, that makes sense! I once saw a two-headed snake in a zoo. The info placard mentioned it/they would not survive long in the wild.

 

[riddick07]

Two headed snakes are always interesting looking! I don't think they survive all that long in captivity either usually.

Growing fast! Cleo is 7 months now and Ramse is around 5 months I think.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Well, I was Googling general stuff. I learned that there are no vegetarian snakes. The feeding of the little pinkies or other would be just hard for me to handle. I didn't find any ready-to-feed snake feed or pellets other than frozen formerly-live stuff. But if food can be manufactured for dogs and cats (also carnivores) I wonder why it couldn't be made for snakes. Maybe they need prey-shapes to stimulate their feeding. Still, I wonder if they could make pinkie-shaped nuggets or such. I think more people would be interested in snakes if feeding were easier. Or maybe if you can't handle the pinkies, you should just not have snakes.

Still, very interesting to see how they pose against pretty surfaces.

They certainly do have alert-looking faces!

 

[CDavis]

Well, I was Googling general stuff. I learned that there are no vegetarian snakes. The feeding of the little pinkies or other would be just hard for me to handle. I didn't find any ready-to-feed snake feed or pellets other than frozen formerly-live stuff. But if food can be manufactured for dogs and cats (also carnivores) I wonder why it couldn't be made for snakes. Maybe they need prey-shapes to stimulate their feeding. Still, I wonder if they could make pinkie-shaped nuggets or such. I think more people would be interested in snakes if feeding were easier. Or maybe if you can't handle the pinkies, you should just not have snakes.

Still, very interesting to see how they pose against pretty surfaces.

They certainly do have alert-looking faces!

I think that it might actually be kind of cruel not to give them live food I think that it is really one of the only kinds of enrichment that you can give a snake other than handling them and that's not a natural thing. But I agree that that is probably the biggest downsides to owning a snake.

 

[riddick07]

There is no specific enrichment in eating live food. You can hide dead feeders in the cage for them to hunt down if you wanted but no real hunting occurs in a small cage live or dead. I would say there is no real benefit to feeding live feeders unless your snake won't eat anything else. Live feeding is dangerous for the snake and requires the keeper to watch over the proceeding until the feeder is dead or remove it from the cage if the snake isn't hungry. Then you have to take care of the feeder until it's eaten which is a PITA. If you want more enrichment do a bioacitve enclosure or even just a naturalistic one.

I feed frozen except for one baby snake that won't eat anything else but live pinkies at the moment. When it's more established I'll be arguing with it again to convert to frozen. And I have one WC that eats live lizards.

You can get a snake that eats fish, frogs, worms, insects etc and then you have things like egg eater snakes. You can also feed reptilinks which is ground up feeders. They look a lot like sausage links. Personally I don't see why people find the feeding of other animals uncomfortable since I eat other animals myself. I guess if your a vegetarian or vegan I might see why that would make you uncomfortable maybe. As long as I don't have time to get attached to a feeder and think of it as a pet I'm good!

 

[CDavis]

There is no specific enrichment in eating live food. You can hide dead feeders in the cage for them to hunt down if you wanted but no real hunting occurs in a small cage live or dead. I would say there is no real benefit to feeding live feeders unless your snake won't eat anything else. Live feeding is dangerous for the snake and requires the keeper to watch over the proceeding until the feeder is dead or remove it from the cage if the snake isn't hungry. Then you have to take care of the feeder until it's eaten which is a PITA. If you want more enrichment do a bioacitve enclosure or even just a naturalistic one.

I feed frozen except for one baby snake that won't eat anything else but live pinkies at the moment. When it's more established I'll be arguing with it again to convert to frozen. And I have one WC that eats live lizards.

You can get a snake that eats fish, frogs, worms, insects etc and then you have things like egg eater snakes. You can also feed reptilinks which is ground up feeders. They look a lot like sausage links. Personally I don't see why people find the feeding of other animals uncomfortable since I eat other animals myself. I guess if your a vegetarian or vegan I might see why that would make you uncomfortable maybe. As long as I don't have time to get attached to a feeder and think of it as a pet I'm good!

All of my snake knowledge is second hand I haven't really done any reading of my own I just listen to the reptile lady at the store. But thanks for the info.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Speculating about snakes really forces me to acknowledge my inconsistencies of philosophy. I'm almost a vegetarian, but if I had to kill my own meat, I wouldn't eat ANY! Maybe fish....
I could feed a snake bugs or eggs, I think.
Interesting!