2008 Year In Review!

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The 2008 Year In Review!​

It’s been very interesting to go over this past years worth of threads and pictures and see just how much has changed, and just how much has remained the same. I’ve noticed a lot of questions that have been asked have been answered multiple times. Snakes have gone from little munchkins, to great big beasts! There have been so many new members, it would take at least two or three posts to list them all. It’s been interesting to see just how many names I don’t really recognize, and a few that I do, but haven’t seen in a while. This year has been full of all kinds of unexpected twists and turns for many people, so here's hoping that this will help everyone focus on the good that's come of this year.

Each specific month will have the topics of interest, as posted by each persons Week In Review, followed by a collection of photos from the entire month. Each month will also have a section for pairings, eggs, and pippies, as these are some of the most rewarding moments in the hobby. I have done my best to try and include the best photos previously featured in each WIR throughout the year, as well as include the more interesting topics. I've included all pairings/eggs/pippies from every member as posted in the WIR's throughout the year. These sections include links and photos due to the different methods used by WIR writers.

Thank you, to the writers of the Week In Review. Without you, this year in review would have taken months to complete. We all expect to see a WIR every week, but few realize how much work goes into them, especially considering it's a volunteer position.

I would prefer it if you did not reply until all posts have been made, as this review is going to be very long.

I think we all owe Rich Z a great big THANK YOU for giving us this wonderful site to share knowledge, photos, and experience.

I hope you enjoy the first ever Cornsnakes.com Year In Review!

Birthdays:
Humor me... click the link... I dare you.

January​

The WIR for the first week of the New Year was posted by Tyflier.
A few topics of interest in there included
Using Nutribac
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A discussion of ‘08 breeding plans! Take a moment to look back on those and see how many of those plans came through!

During Tula_Montage’s WIR time, there were many a discussion, including Using distilled water… yay, or nay?, The correct placement of thermometers, and Nanci’s Bad Shed Tutorial.

The next WIR from TripleMoonsExotic told us that corns are officially illegal without a permit in Vermont! There was also a discussion on whether or not certain morphs are healthier than others.

January Photos​

TandJ showed off a rootbeer baby.

Nanci had to post pictures of this beauty.

snakeparadise was having fun with an Amber rattlesnake.

And of course, Tula_Montage had to show off some pretty pictures as well.

Susan had an incredible photo of her Pewter, Persius.

Jenn stuck her charcoal, Nagini, in a tree.

Mactopa succeeded doing a nice mirror shot of an amel stripe.

XCIN decided their ghost blood needed to take a trip outside.

Marcel Poots had a very nice looking Lava to show off!

 

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February​

Hookups!​

KathyLove started the season off with 16 hookups on February 1st.
Tyflier had a little action going on.
Susielea had a pair get together on the third!
Jmksnakes had a pair hookup on the 18th.

EGGS!!!​

The eggs started coming in February, starting with a clutch of 13 from velvet!

BABIES!!!!!​

Tearak hatched out some striped creamsicles.

There were quite a few interesting discussions during the time frame for the first WIR of February, done by Toyah. Pied-Sided vs. Whitesided?, hybrids, quad and quint hets, fighting for our rights, is there anything we won’t discuss?

Rich_in_KY posted a WIR worthy of a Dial-Up Warning… But of course we love those here.
It was a very paranormal week, starting when Snake_Dave revealed time travel isn’t just for Sci-fi, and then SnakesRule1234 asked about ghostly experiences! On a more serious note, there was always the discussions on fuzzy stuffing and feeder companies were debated over.

The last full week in February was covered by TripleMoonsExotic again, and was full of wonderful discussions, and some great photos.
The term "hateling" was officially defined, the use of live plants in vivs was talked about, powerfeeding was debated, when it's okay to force feed, and the setup of lay boxes.

February Photos​

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ArpeggioAngel sure does have some beautiful pictures, and this shot of her Miami is no exception.

v_various had to, of course, humiliate poor FinFang.

ZoologyMajor’s okeetee, Sega, shows a perfect example of why we call the shed cycle “in blue”.

Mbdorfer’s wild caught boy, Bucky, apparently likes blue mice.

Sam and ShroomieGirl play Halo together.

Kryptonite likes to surf the net when NFS07 isn’t looking.

Dave got a great tongue shot of Salazar.

bekers71's charcoal was growing quite nicely.

Mmmmmmm... Bacon!

 

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The last February Photos

Susan likes to put her snakes on pretty things.

Amaterasu's Lavender Motley has a twinkle in its eye.

 

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March

March​

Pairings:​

Carol had some good luck.

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Stephens first hookup of the year on 03/05/08 (anyone else notice that 3+5=8?)

TandJ of course posted some corn porn.

Bekers71 had two confirmed hookups.

Akaangela showed us that even corns have arboreal breeding tendencies.

Walter_Smith had wild caughts and future hypo lav stripes!

Susielea managed to catch a pair "bumping uglies".

 

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Mark_Beverly had a lava and ghost cubed feel the love.

TripleMoonsExotic had three confirmed hookups.

PJCReptiles played some Barry White for their pair.

Djfreebase had instantaneous magic.

Zorro had some good luck with his pair.

As did Carol.

Silt had a nice pairing.

And Susielea had one last hookup for the season.
Betterboa got breeding footage of the "lovebite".
daneale777 had a first time hookup!

Eggs​

Velvet had some nice plump eggies.

 

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Drizzt80's anery girl popped out 15 nice ones.

Toyah helped us ring in the very end of February, and the beginning of March. And what could be better for that than the first '08 CS.com debate on the scaleless corns, an interesting look at incubation temperature and temperament, gay snakes, and blood after mating.

Rich_in_KY's latest DUW post showcased almost as many photos as this YIR. But never fear! The topics were hard hitting! There was a rather interesting outlook on being "PC" and the explanation behind the tail rattle!

Tula_Montage featured questions on brumation, brought to light the wild-caught photo thread, what to do with health issues, and corn snake laws.

March Photos​

Gib_one showed off pictures of why they're called "bloodreds".

Bluebird's okeetee is looking quite nice.

Carol's anery charcoal started showing some yellow.

Stephen shows just how different two ghost bloods can be.

Dean's boy has a "Magna-Doodle head pattern".

Lexcorn's brilliantly colored hypo lavender.

Taryn7 has a very rare super dwarf ball python/corn.

RavenSpirit360 just had to throw in some pink wormy things.

Nanci's little Pepper wanted chin photos done.

 

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CornyNoob featured a beautiful little pastel motley.

Debs reverse okeetee likes to dangle on pretty flowers.

Fenderplayer has a nice anery het opal.

This is a very well done shot by Jessica.

Mactopa's anery blood striped Asil.

Pre- and Post shed shots by Silt of a nice butter mot girl.

Drizzt80 snapped off a shot or two of his female sunkissed.

Mohrsnakes caught an anery.

XCIN's hypo lav stripe.

 

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April​

Pairings​

snakeparadise posted some more corn porn
Jrgh17 posted some naughty photos
zeewhiz's mating pics
Abigail fell in love with an Abbotts for tsthompson
Ruderacer shows some love bites
tsthompson shows some of his 2008 pairing
bekers71 wants you to guess what they"SUPPOSED" to be doing
Walter Smith posts his multiple hookups
Sunkissed X Lavender.
Pied-Sided Bloodred X Pied-Sided Bloodred.
Sunkissed X Dilute Anery Motley.
Sunkissed X Lavender Motley
Pied-Sided Bloodred X Sunkissed
Pied Sided Bloodred X Ultramel
More by Walter.

Jen had a final hookup for the season.

Gib_one had another pretty pair.

Corn porn from Snakeparadise.

DaGiant and Stephen have a confirmed hookup.
Zeewhiz also had a second pairing of the season this month.

Eggs​

A nice clutch from Brent's fire girl.

PJC Reptiles had their first clutch of the season on the ground this month.
Drizzt80's girl dropped 14 beautiful eggs.
RobStevens had 3 clutches on 4/14!
bekers71 had two clutches pop out.
And of course Stephen popped out his first and second clutches within 5 days of each other.
Stephen's hypo lav mot clutch dropped on the 26th.
Drizzt80 had clutches number 7, 8, and 9 drop around the 22nd.
Llewella's first time mom dropped 22 eggs!
RobStevens also had a clutch of 22.
Silt had guess how many eggs?

Pippies/Hatchlings​

Babies from Vinny

April started off with a very picture heavy WIR by Rich (as usual). While there weren't many topics of interest to post, there were plenty of wonderful pictures and pairings.

Tula_Montage brings us into the middle of the month with such topics as bad sheds and tail loss and the original snake name thread.

Toyah got a chance to bring to light the horrors of egg binding and a list of hybrids as well as some useful incubation information.

Jrgh17 finished off the last of the completely April WIR's. There was a discussion on why corns are known as "wimpy" snakes and the controversy behind a communal lay box.

April Photos​

Velvet brought out Draco to play in the sun.

Tsiriane managed to snag ZoologyMajor to come take pictures of the collection, starting with Andy.

CALIVIK has a nice looking anery.

 

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A nice tongue shot of Morgan by Skaaglore.

A nice b&w shot of Fenrir by Toshiro.

Dean showed off triple-het Traci.

bekers71 had 'em dropping in to smell the roses.

Rob Stevens stuck his pied-sided blood on a mirror for a great shot.

Elle shows off Dior in full April colored glory.

Weebonilass snapped a headshot or two.

To add a description to this photo would be a bit redundant.

Brent has a sunkissed baby.

Whippet likes tongue shots.

 

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The final April photos

TopazFyre took this absolutely gorgeous shot!

Tsiriane's bloodred.

GregF's snakes like to do laundry.

Susans cactus dilute.

 

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May

Pairings​

Lynnea started preparing for a second clutch.
As if RobStevens didn't have enough clutches on the ground already, he wants to double clutch a few, too!

Eggs​

TandJ's first clutch of '08 hit the ground.

SunProject had a nice clutch.

Dean had a couple nice project clutches pop out.

Susielea's girl gave her seven large eggs.
Carol's 80g male sired a clutch of 16 fertile eggs.
Desertanimal had some bloodreds brewing.
Stephen's hoping for Ultramel Plasmas to come out of these eggs.
Toyah finally had a clutch drop.
Zorro was really hoping for Ultramel Charcoals.
Dragon boy had clutches 2 and 3 drop.
After a 2 year wait, one of Cflaguy's girls dropped a nice clutch for him.
PJCReptiles had another clutch.
Snakeparadise had a fourth clutch.
Jeff_Linkchorst had his first clutch drop on 05/04
Rob Stevens had too many clutches in one week and took pictures. (Almost every word in that sentence is a separate link...
starsevol got a healthy clutch of 15 eggs
Iguanagirl8662's lovely clutch
bekers71 has a nice clutch of 12 eggs
zorro got a clutch from his Opal Motley
crackerhead had a pearly necklace of 9
Lynnea caught her Luna in the act
Jeff Linkchorst was hoping to discover what his Motley is het for from this clutch
tsthompson's "Poison" clutch
MohrSnakes had a bunch of clutches dropping. These were just some of his over 700 eggs.

Blueapplepaste had a very anticipated clutch arrive.

Stephen had (yet another) clutch peeking out from the moss.

tsthompson had a Memorial Day clutch of 16.
Stephen found a clutch when he got home from fishing.
Mrs_InsaneOne had a Last Day of May celebration!

 

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Pippies​

Looks like VinnyJ was busy!

See what I mean?
Autumn7796 also had a clutch start pipping.
pgr8dnlvr had lots of pippies!
carol had a hypo pewter pippy!
Carol had a hypo pewter pip!

bribrian had some very interesting noses poking through.

XCIN’s hypo sulfur is looking great!
Snakexperience has a Ghost Blood pop out of an egg.
LindsayMarie’s has a head showing from her “Mystery" Clutch
Carol has her fist Miami and a few cinders
ruggerboi has babies from their first clutch.
Susielea has babies popping out and a grandchild on the way. Congrats!
carol’s mystery snake took the yellow from T and J’s Anery.
Don&SallyExotics has some nice looking babies popping out.

As you can see, May brought about many more eggs and pippies for many members, and a joyous time was had by all when photos were shared. Rich's first WIR of the month brought about (you guessed it) and insane amount of pictures.

Toyah's first WIR of the month introduced many new members. There was also much talk about when the economy isn't exactly working in the breeders favor, Ghosthousecorns got to show off cool patterns in a bite, how to exercise your snakes, and a warning for all keepers that what you pay for is what you get.

TripleMoonsExotic filled her WIR cycle with Eggs, pippies, pictures, and new members.

And then before anyone with a Dialup connection could recover, it was Rich's turn for a WIR again.

NFS07's first ever WIR asked breeders the hard hitting questions like how to get hatchlings to eat for the first time, the ever popular is my snake gravid, and who could ever forget How did you get started?

 

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May Photos​

djfreebase was dealing with a cobra.

Desertanimal took a beauty outside.

VinnyJ's little coral snow cube is growing horns.

RavenSpirit360's baby stops to smell the flowers.

Marcel Poots shows off his stunning example of an Abbott's okeetee.

Pasodoma took a few of some gorgeous opals.

Carol's pretty Ice Blood.

Steve_Roylance's striped granite.

your_only_nightmare's Anery Stripe:

steve roylance's freshly hatched Lavender Stripe:

 

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CornyNoob's pastel dreams of the outside world.

jiyoung2k's little RO likes to play hide and seek.

Maize411 got some post shed pictures of Maize.

Ruby show's Nanci why it's called a "triangle head".

RobStevens' gorgeous ghost blood's head.

JustineNYC caught one of hers in the act of shedding.

Snakexperience showed of a very nice ultramel motley.

ArpeggioAngel, yet again, stuck a snake up a tree.

XCIN's striped blood is looking good.

TandJ caught our eyes with a dazzling anery lavender motley.

 

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June

Pairings​

I'm guessing RobStevens really wanted Pied sided bloods and hets.

Eggs​

Joejr14 wound up with a clutch dropping on the first.
dr73 had a clutch with questionable paternity.
Jrgh17 had a first clutch, but was unsure about their viability.
paranoika3 gives us a full family portrait of mom, dad, and the eggs.
ForkedTung had 13 perfect eggs come from his snow.
Bitsy had some expected, yet unexpected eggs.
The_evil had a nice looking clutch.
Of course Drewby07 had to brag about getting a clutch of 17 okeetee eggs.
Walter_smith is starting the project that will create Pied-sided Lavender Bloods in the future.

Pippies

Drizzt80 had a wonderful clutch of normals and bloodreds.
Susielea had some funky patterned babies.
bekers71 better have some big boxes ready for the beast babies.
Iguanagirl8662 had her first two amels pip
ruggerboi posted some pictures of his freshly shed babies.
First clutch of the year for Drizzt80- blizzards and charcoals.
Carol had twins in her whiteout project.

Llewella had some nice little noses poking through.
CaptBogart got to yell "PIPPIES!"
PJCReptiles had a funky little paternless pinkish thing and some platinums!
Snakexperience got all kinds of fun things!
Dean's Pewter pips.

Blizzards

Butter stripes.

Zorro's first hatchling: a pewter.

Walter_Smith had some Alabama pips.

Again23's 62 day pip.

Lexcorn's first pip of the year.

Velvet's pips.

RobSteven's clutch is full of bloods!

 

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Bekers71 had some cute little heads poking out.

Llewella's creamsicle peeking out to say hello.

TripleMoonsExotic had a cute little pipper.

Dean's little pied-nosed blood with ghost stripe hets.

A two headed sulfur from RobStevens that, unfortunately, didn't make it very long.

Carol's babies are out for blood!

PJCReptiles was having all kinds of fun with caramel motleys and butter motleys.

And of course a gorgeous little motley from bekers71.

Toyah started us off for the month of June. The selection of topics was great! There was a discussion on what should go into a snake emergency/first aid kit, proper sterilization/disinfecting techniques, and finally can they really get stuck?

TripleMoonsExotic graced us with another wonderful WIR. There was an update to the Munson plan, a debate on whether corns guard their eggs, the bad side of cohabbing, and how to avoid ants.

Rich_in_KY's June WIR was, you guessed it, full of pictures.

Tula_Montage finished out the month of June with some interesting discussions. One of which talked about which cleaning products are safe, while others discussed the 80 day pippies, egg teeth, and even the temperatures inside shipping boxes.

 

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June Photos​

J&SReptiles posted a picture of his new mystery baby.

Zeewhiz posted this amazing ghost stripe girl.

Seriva_Senkalora posted her gorgeous pewter.

While it's not a corn picture, this one just made me laugh. Crackerhead's little buddy Ozzie in his G.I. Joe costume.

Toyah showed off a lovely candy cane.

Dean made us look at his golddust stripe.

Walter_Smith's hypo lav stripe definitely turned a few heads.

Toshiro's Lady Sif.

Susan's Normal Het Bloodred, Hypo & Motley or Stripe, Rania

and her boy Alamo trying to look like Kermit.

 

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Snakexperience's anery pewter.

My own anery, Jiang.

NFS07's Kryptonite doing a strip tease.

Cherry, Nanci's little milksnake Miami, taking a swim in the water garden.

Do I really need to describe this shot?

An aztec charcoal from Michelle.

 

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July

Eggs​

ForkedTung got a respectable first clutch of 16 on the ground from virgin parents.
Cflaguy keeps trying to put boots on legless animals... (you've gotta hunt for these pictures!)

Pippies​

Of course PJCReptiles had some more pippies.
Snakexperience had a nice variety in this clutch.
WAS1 had to wait 71 days for a pip!
SunProject had a whole bunch of little orange heads.
MohrSnakes had twins and a few other pippies as well.
Susan waited 81 days for these guys to pip, and has officially won the patience award.
Lexcorn had pips a poppin'.
PJCReptiles had to deal with not being able to prove out one of their snakes, but had babies nonetheless.
susang joined the pippy club with her first ever pip.
MegF. was having fun with some locality okeetees.
RobStevens discovered a hidden het.
Mohrsnakes discovered a genetic hodgepodge in this clutch, and had fun with his lava butter project, too.
Jen had little noses poking out.
Lynnea had a perfect pippy popping picture.
tbtusk's patience paid off with peeking pippies.
coolsnakesky had twins!
Remember dwyn127's lavblood project? Looks like he just made it.
Snakefreak had some interesting hets hatch out with these caramel blood x lavender babies.

MohrSnakes also had an odd little pippy.

Susan had a nice little cobra-esque butter.

And some very nice motleys.

An amel motley from SunProject.

Walter_Smith made a lot of pink snakes this year.

mvervest's amel lava.

Zorro had fun with an opal motley project clutch.

RobStevens wanted us to guess the morph.

Carol's amel cinder (is this not the pinkest hatchling you ever did see?)

 

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tsthompson has a whole bunch of interesting little babies.

Spirit975 managed to hatch out het honeys. Looks more like het vinegar to me.

July found us with even more pippies than we knew what to do with! With new pippy posts popping up periodically, it was all the WIR writers could do to keep up!
Toyah's WIR in July found her unable to view pictures, so a full text WIR was in order. But that was okay, considering there were topics from coconut husks to swimming corns, and snakey yawns to oozing eggs.

TripleMoonsExotic, however, made up for the lack of pictures during her turn for the WIR due to an apparent lack of interesting threads.

Guess who's turn it was next? That's right. The king of pictures, Rich_in_KY.