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Hognose in Alaska!

Alaya

Alaya

Crazy Alaskan
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Meet my little unnamed hognose! He's already quite the traveled snake, having flown from Indianapolis, IN to Anchorage, AK then driven 350 miles from Anchorage to Fairbanks (due to weather reasons we couldn't ship to Fairbanks).

He's not very happy about this situation, even after given a week to settle in. I'm thinking he might like a smaller tub, I currently have him in a 15 quart, but could move him down to a 6 quart. He hoods up and hisses like he could do some damage, but he's so tiny its just adorable. I need to find him some smaller hides, he's just so tiny!

Iflln2fntsy's little boy Purkinje is from the same clutch.
 
I personally much prefer axanthic, but they are way out of my price range. This guy is 50% chance for het for axanthic, so not something I would bet money on. But he is adorable!
 
Lol my hognose is in a 12 quart and he's still angry about everything, and he's been here two months! They act so tough :3
 
Lol yeah. From what I've watched on snakebytes, they bite even less than corn snakes. I think they just headbutt when they want to get aggresive lol. I'll have to find the video and link it once I get back to my computer.
 
I kept Sweets in a 2.5 gallon tank for over a year! THis summer he movd into a 5 gallon Kritter Keeper. I had him in a 15 qt tub last night, and he seemed lost in it!

The hide he has now is a single serve Green Giant broccoli w/ cheese sauce container! It's 3.5" x 4.5". Mostly he burrows under the aspen behind his water dish (far away from the uth?)
 
Alaya said:
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Meet my little unnamed hognose! He's already quite the traveled snake, having flown from Indianapolis, IN to Anchorage, AK then driven 350 miles from Anchorage to Fairbanks (due to weather reasons we couldn't ship to Fairbanks).

He's not very happy about this situation, even after given a week to settle in. I'm thinking he might like a smaller tub, I currently have him in a 15 quart, but could move him down to a 6 quart. He hoods up and hisses like he could do some damage, but he's so tiny its just adorable. I need to find him some smaller hides, he's just so tiny!

Iflln2fntsy's little boy Purkinje is from the same clutch.
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He is absolutely beautiful
 
He's very cute! I definitely prefer the normal type to any of the other mutations.

I just got my own first hognose last month. From what I had read previously, they should be super docile, but the very first day I had her, she bit me. She's been great since then, though. I have her in a ten gallon and she's out and about most of the day.

She also loves to burrow!

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Hoggies are so cute!! I've come _so_ close to getting one a few times. We've got a couple members here who breed fancy hoggies: Rich Hume and Troy Rexroth (Deadmouse).
 
I love my little hognose. Hes a very small 2008 at only 70g and I keep him in a 15qt with very deep bedding because he has a very intricate tunnel system going on in there :). They are so much fun to watch. I would really like a female though, but not to breed. I handled one at Daytona and she was awesome! So much bigger than the males, but not too big, just perfect!
 
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I would really like a female though, but not to breed. I handled one at Daytona and she was awesome! So much bigger than the males, but not too big, just perfect!
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I'll have to check them out at the next show, my male is small for a 2010. I really need to get a scale!
 
Hope you dont mind... but heres a picture of me handling the female. I really wanted to take her home but her $600 price tag was a little much!
 

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Love the pictures! Keep them coming, I find hognose to be unbelievably cute. Maybe someday when I have money I'll get into morphs and breeding.

I'll have to find some time in daylight (not much here right now, 3 or so hours a day) and take some better pics of my boy after he's digested his meal. Can't have more pictures of other hoggies in his thread than pics of him!

My original plans was to have this guy and my corn to be classroom pets. But I realized (after I bought this guy) that hognoses are likely illegal in Alaska, as all venomous snakes are illegal. Even though they are rear fanged venomous, and the possibility of having any venom involved in a bite is practically nil, the fact is I am a public high school teacher and people get weird about things. I don't want anything that could get me into legal trouble in my classroom. So, I'll probably just have to find another cornsnake or two for the classroom and keep this guy at home.
 
I wanted a female simply because they usually get bigger than the males. One guy at the expo I got mine from was selling a female yearling who was literally half the length of the 6 month-old one I ended up getting.
 
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