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It's been a while since I last posted but I wanted to share. Slithers, our 2006 Sunglow has finally eaten his first adult mouse. He has had a history of regurges and there were lots of two steps forward and one step back. It took until late last year to get him up over 200g and then he had 2...

A few weeks ago, our 06 sunglow, Slithers, had a regurge. We didn't feed for 10 days, then fed a small meal and everything seemed ok. Last week, the local pet store only had hoppers, so we fed him 3. Today, one week after eating, he regurged a light brown, viscous liquid, with an...

Perfect day for some outdoor photos. Temps in the low 80s and both snakes recently shed. Hickory was being a punk and kept diving for the potting soil and burrowing. So she was banished to the drying rack. Slithers was quite content to bask in the branches, so I got many more shots of him.

I don't know why, but BlogOnExpo has some pretty cool photos of snake bones.

For the second time in a row, Hickory has shed inside her warm hide. I went to feed her last night and when I lifted up the hide (a large, rather ugly plastic cave) I found a curled up snake next to a curled up shed. It was a perfectly good shed and I'm not worried about it; I just wondered if...

Well, it's been a while since I last posted and I think this is a good occasion. Our female Okeetee, Hickory, has outgrown the 16 qt. Sterilite container that she had lived in since her arrival in early August. She's gone from a 9g hatchling to 38g and 22". She's always been very active and was...

Both of our snakes were ready to move up to the next prey size at their feeding last Thursday. Slithers had been on double large pinkies and Hickory on double small pinkies, each every five days. When I weighed them before feeding, I was rather stunned to find that Slithers had gained 5g (to...

Our yearling Sunglow had some problems with regurges a few months back, from which he has recovered and we've been working on getting him back to a normal weight. Right now, he weighs 23g and we have been feeding him 2 large pinkies every 5 days. He's been eating willingly, gaining weight and...

So, we come home from a 4 day Labor Day weekend and Hickory's container is a shambles. The thermometer has been ripped from its suction cup, the piece of driftwood has been knocked over and her hide - a piece of 1.5" PVC pipe cut lengthwise - has been dug up from underneath a layer of substrate...

Our Okeetee, Hickory, had her third shed last night, just 21 days after her second. She was kind enough to let the whole family watch and shed in one piece, in about 10 minutes. Our Sunglow, Slithers, shed earlier in the week and had a hard time of it, needing help with a washcloth. The...

Seems that I read somewhere that bloods could be finicky eaters and it got me to thinking. Are normals generally easier to keep and more likely to thrive than exotic morphs? I only have one of each (not that a Sunglow is all that exotic), so I'm in no position to judge, although my 3 month old...

Hickory had her 2nd shed on Wednesday, six days after her arrival. Sorry that her head's not quite in focus but you can see how nice and bright her colors are. The photo was taken last night prior to feeding, when she took 2 small pinkies in quick succession. So far she loves to eat and doesn't...

Here's the first pic of Hickory, our new Okeetee. She's from one of MegF's clutches (thanks, Meg!) and is our second corn snake. On arrival, she spent a good 10 minutes exploring her new home, then coiled up outside her warm hide and checked out the scene for the rest of the day. Offered her a...

Currently at The Skirball Cultural Center, in Los Angeles, is an amazing exhibit called Noah's Ark. They have built an ark inside an 8,000 sq. ft. gallery and filled it with more than 300 handmade animals. There are also puppets, machines for making thunder and lightning, climbing walls and...

Is there a danger in feeding in very warm room temperatures? We get heatwaves here a couple of times each summer and our house isn't air conditioned. Yesterday, the room with the viv got up to 92F during the late afternoon-early evening. It was 80 when we got up this morning at 6:30. I would...

I've been surprised and pleased to see Slithers out and about in his viv during the day. In the early days after we got him, he hid all the time, which we expected. Then, he worked up to hiding during the day and prowling around at night. In the last week or so, he's been out at all different...

We're going on vacation in mid-July, for 8 days. I'm not worried about food, as we'll feed just before we leave and we'll get a friend to come in and change the water a couple of times. I'm wondering about the UTH pad and whether to unplug it. We've never had a problem with the thermostat (a...

After 8 days during which we never saw him out of his hide, Slithers had a good shed. No, dare I say it, a great shed! He started moving around in his hide this morning and after about 20 minutes, came out and crawled across his viv, leaving this behind: Since this was our first experience...

I found this behind some foliage in Slithers' viv tonight: It doesn't smell but it doesn't look like poop either. It could be two separate items or one thing that came apart. Each piece is a bit smaller than a small pinkie. I don't know how long it's been there but I look at that part of the...

Our 20g male is ready to move off his reduced "settling in" diet and I'm trying to figure out the best way to provide him with the right size F/T mice. Our local pet store charges $1.75 each (any size) and when I went in yesterday for large pinks, they didn't have any, so I'm also concerned...