Ok ok, enough lurking the board, I suppose its finally time to introduce myself!
Hope you guys can appreciate a small novel! Here goes...
I've been reading and lurking for a few weeks now, browsing thru lots of snake pics and husbandry stuff. I also went out and bought Kathy Loves book for corns, although, everything I gleaned from this forum pretty much covers everything in the book (cept for some of the breeding/genetics subjects). Then again I never really researched the breeding, since I have a 1 critter limit in my house! (self imposed, as I have enough trouble taking care of ME! :crazy02
About me, i'm 26, live with my bro, haven't been single for damn near 6 years (I still love my college sweetheart) and I work at a Plastics Testing Lab in Calgary Alberta. I love dogs (springer spaniels mostly!), camping, fishing, snowboarding, skiing, 4x4ing, fishing, moutain biking, i'd love to get back into dirtbiking. Heck I pretty much do everything I can outside, when the $$ in my wallet allows me to drive to the Mountains. I should really get a street & dirt bike so I can do it more often and cheaper! I'm also a closet MMORPG fan, I played Everquest for 5 yrs (ugh) and World of Warcraft for 3. I don't see any more good ones on the horizon though, so I might be breaking the habit!
About my snake! I picked her up at the Reptile Show in Red Deer on August 22. Shes an Anery Motley although I prefer to call her Anery Hurricane since she doens't have much in the way of saddles, but very well pronounced hurricanes! I've noticed most people refer to them as Motley though. I haven't named her yet, but its in the works. I tend to take my time with these things. I was thinking of "Storm" but am still mulling it over (Hurricane? Storm? Get it? hehe) I keep her on aspen, with bottled spring water, a warm and cold hide with a heat mat with a cheap dimmer switch, that I plan on upgrading to a proper thermostat one of these days. She likes to come out at nite and poke her head around her viv. S
o far shes pretty good with handling, doens't trust me so much to pick her up, but ok when I have her in my hand. I keep the sessions short for now. Oh, she also eats like a champ! I use a separate feeding dish in her tank with no aspen in it, lift her up, show her where the pinkie is and she devours it and goes back to her warm hide at which point I switch her water/food dish around and wave goodbye to her for 2 days!
I know an intro thread is useless without pics too, so here is my Snakey!
Hope you guys can appreciate a small novel! Here goes...
I've been reading and lurking for a few weeks now, browsing thru lots of snake pics and husbandry stuff. I also went out and bought Kathy Loves book for corns, although, everything I gleaned from this forum pretty much covers everything in the book (cept for some of the breeding/genetics subjects). Then again I never really researched the breeding, since I have a 1 critter limit in my house! (self imposed, as I have enough trouble taking care of ME! :crazy02
About me, i'm 26, live with my bro, haven't been single for damn near 6 years (I still love my college sweetheart) and I work at a Plastics Testing Lab in Calgary Alberta. I love dogs (springer spaniels mostly!), camping, fishing, snowboarding, skiing, 4x4ing, fishing, moutain biking, i'd love to get back into dirtbiking. Heck I pretty much do everything I can outside, when the $$ in my wallet allows me to drive to the Mountains. I should really get a street & dirt bike so I can do it more often and cheaper! I'm also a closet MMORPG fan, I played Everquest for 5 yrs (ugh) and World of Warcraft for 3. I don't see any more good ones on the horizon though, so I might be breaking the habit!
About my snake! I picked her up at the Reptile Show in Red Deer on August 22. Shes an Anery Motley although I prefer to call her Anery Hurricane since she doens't have much in the way of saddles, but very well pronounced hurricanes! I've noticed most people refer to them as Motley though. I haven't named her yet, but its in the works. I tend to take my time with these things. I was thinking of "Storm" but am still mulling it over (Hurricane? Storm? Get it? hehe) I keep her on aspen, with bottled spring water, a warm and cold hide with a heat mat with a cheap dimmer switch, that I plan on upgrading to a proper thermostat one of these days. She likes to come out at nite and poke her head around her viv. S
o far shes pretty good with handling, doens't trust me so much to pick her up, but ok when I have her in my hand. I keep the sessions short for now. Oh, she also eats like a champ! I use a separate feeding dish in her tank with no aspen in it, lift her up, show her where the pinkie is and she devours it and goes back to her warm hide at which point I switch her water/food dish around and wave goodbye to her for 2 days!
I know an intro thread is useless without pics too, so here is my Snakey!
