Dougefresh
How's your ASPEN
Hi everyone I'm new to the board and a brand new okeetee owner all though I've owned other reptiles over the years this is my first well my second snake and I am so stoked over it and all the info I got off this site I just cant get enough:eatpointe
Back to the topic I would love to hear how peole got started with there snake or snakes did you get it on a impulse buy, always loved them, inherited one, given one, found one!
Mine was the later, well at least the first one anyway!:sobstory: I live in Florida and do pools for a living so I come across a wide variety of critters in pools, some living some dead, but all sorts of different snakes especially when we are in a drought situation the snakes come out of the wood work for the water and Ill find them swiming in the pools or in the skimmer when I lift the lid! Anyway 2 weeks ago I was at a customers house and went out to the pool equipment and laying by the warm pool pump was a 4 foot albino (as far as I know from looking at pics on this site) Blizzard corn snake it was completely white with no markings at all on it! Real pretty snake and when I got close it didnt even move and it looked real skinny I thought this is either someones lost or released pet or the rarest wild snake I ever saw! So I asked my customer if she had an old pillow case and she did, I picked the snake up it barley moved and its back bone was really visible so I knew he was bad off
just didnt how bad! I went to walmart got an under the bed rubbermaid, drilled some vent holes, I had an old water bed heater thermastat and a heating pad I rigged up as a UTH, works great! added a couple hides and some bedding and tried nursing him/her back to health!
I misted him down with water because he looked so dehydrated and fed it a FK fuzzy and he ate it no prob but looking at him at home I noticed what looked like a few puncture wounds in his side and from owning lizards and cats in the past I know what a puncture wound will do to a reptile and its usually not good and 3 days later it wasnt I woke up and found that he passed away in the night
That leads me to my new Okeetee from SMR I had this cool little set up but now no snake so I orderd one from SMR and couldnt be happier hes a cool little guy Ill try to get some pics up but Ive only had him a week tomorrow so I didnt want to mess with him to take a pic I got him to eat and poo already so that hurdle is past and Im so excited Im already looking around the house to see where I can put a rack system:grin01: Oh well Thanks for listening:wavey:
Back to the topic I would love to hear how peole got started with there snake or snakes did you get it on a impulse buy, always loved them, inherited one, given one, found one!
Mine was the later, well at least the first one anyway!:sobstory: I live in Florida and do pools for a living so I come across a wide variety of critters in pools, some living some dead, but all sorts of different snakes especially when we are in a drought situation the snakes come out of the wood work for the water and Ill find them swiming in the pools or in the skimmer when I lift the lid! Anyway 2 weeks ago I was at a customers house and went out to the pool equipment and laying by the warm pool pump was a 4 foot albino (as far as I know from looking at pics on this site) Blizzard corn snake it was completely white with no markings at all on it! Real pretty snake and when I got close it didnt even move and it looked real skinny I thought this is either someones lost or released pet or the rarest wild snake I ever saw! So I asked my customer if she had an old pillow case and she did, I picked the snake up it barley moved and its back bone was really visible so I knew he was bad off
just didnt how bad! I went to walmart got an under the bed rubbermaid, drilled some vent holes, I had an old water bed heater thermastat and a heating pad I rigged up as a UTH, works great! added a couple hides and some bedding and tried nursing him/her back to health! I misted him down with water because he looked so dehydrated and fed it a FK fuzzy and he ate it no prob but looking at him at home I noticed what looked like a few puncture wounds in his side and from owning lizards and cats in the past I know what a puncture wound will do to a reptile and its usually not good and 3 days later it wasnt
I woke up and found that he passed away in the night That leads me to my new Okeetee from SMR I had this cool little set up but now no snake so I orderd one from SMR and couldnt be happier hes a cool little guy Ill try to get some pics up but Ive only had him a week tomorrow so I didnt want to mess with him to take a pic I got him to eat and poo already so that hurdle is past and Im so excited Im already looking around the house to see where I can put a rack system:grin01: Oh well Thanks for listening:wavey:
