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How many Snakes do you have??

That's not even how it is now! I have eight racks that size. Animal Plastics Economy Plastic 66 qt.
 

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For some reason I felt like decorating for Christmas this year! This is the main set of racks. They hold breeding females in the center, snakes that get fed less often up in the top row, snakes that are very easy to deal with in the bottom row, juveniles more toward the left side.

The breeding males are in two racks on the opposite wall. I can keep them cooler if I want to, for fertility.

Each snake has a feeding bin, which are the Sterilites up on top. I have a few glass vivs around, a couple nice 2' square custom vivs with kingsnakes in the kitchen, and 5 16-bin shoebox racks for hatchlings in my bedroom and bathroom, as well as a mens boot box juvenile rack.

In a completely separate room I have isolation vivs.
 

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Those are amazing Nanci! Question, have you ever had heat spikes that were too hot for your snakes? What I'm afraid of if i get a rack, even if the temp is being regulated, that a spike will occur and it will hurt my snake. If its measured with this (link below) will I have that issue? I know it's a smaller space so the snake doesn't have much room to move!

http://www.bigappleherp.com/BAH-1000-Thermostat
 
Sarah1228 said:
Those are amazing Nanci! Question, have you ever had heat spikes that were too hot for your snakes? What I'm afraid of if i get a rack, even if the temp is being regulated, that a spike will occur and it will hurt my snake. If its measured with this (link below) will I have that issue? I know it's a smaller space so the snake doesn't have much room to move!

http://www.bigappleherp.com/BAH-1000-Thermostat
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Nanci will surely have her own answers, but in the meantime I'll share my experience. Thermostats and heat tape/pads both fail. Hopefully they fail by shutting OFF, but sometimes they spike. I have had both devices fail both ways. This is with reptiles on heat running for over 15 years (wow, putting it that way makes me feel old), but the failure rates aren't as low as I would consider acceptable. I have many friends who have also had failures as well as a couple of fires. My advice is don't skimp on thermostats, and consider running two. When I am through with quarantine and set a rack up with my Palmetto, scaleless, etc., I will have redundant (bordering on ridiculous) temperature controls.
 
I would not use that thermostat. I have virtually all Herpstat thermostats (spyderrobotic.com). The model I use, the night drop, is no longer being manufactured, but the Herpstat 1 (not Basic) is even better, with more safety features. It WILL shut down power to the outlets supplying the rack if the thermostat fails. If you look at the website, you can read all about the safety measures they have taken.

Possibly one of the most important new features is the built in safety relay that can disconnect power to the outlets in case of a solid state control failure as well as a timeout function that can cut power if the user's low temperature is not reached within 30 minutes. Three prong grounded outlets are standard assuring compatibility with most heating devices. The Herpstat 2 adds a second outlet/probe and has independant settings.

REALY GOOD article about Thermostst/heating safety
 
I have but a single corn snake, loving and creatively named Snake, a cute little (well nearly 3ft now) anery, coming up to one year.

Right now I'm looking at getting a second though, an amel a new batch of hatchlings this year, again the clutch was a mix of anery, amel and snow, no normals this time though. They're so tiny, when I first saw snake they were already about 2 months old, these ones only had their first feed last week and they're so cute and tiny.

There's also a snow I'm drawn to though, I've narrowed it down to 3 of the 5 amel, and 1 of the 2 snows.

The amel I'm most interested in is pretty quick, took a nip at me and before I had a chance to react they're already pulled back. Far more accurate / vicious than Snake is. The snow I'm most interested in is just adorable. While all the other corns in the clutch hide out beneath their paper towels, this one is an escape artist. The first thing it does when you go towards it is poke out their head and say hello, and then the moment you open the lid they want to go exploring.

Problem is I've already forgotten how to handle hatchlings >.> They're so tiny I can't even remember snake being that small.

Rather than the nervousness I had when first picking up snake (because of noobishness) I'm instead nervous that I might squeeze too tight when I pick them up. Need to get used to handling the squirmy little worms again.

Anyone got any tips on getting them used to you? I read a load when first getting Snake, but forgot it all already.

Oh as for a name, Considering calling this one Otocon, keeping with the MGS theme. And considering I'm hoping for a male, it might also fulfil some fangirls fanfic.
 
Nanci said:
I would not use that thermostat. I have virtually all Herpstat thermostats (spyderrobotic.com). The model I use, the night drop, is no longer being manufactured, but the Herpstat 1 (not Basic) is even better, with more safety features. It WILL shut down power to the outlets supplying the rack if the thermostat fails. If you look at the website, you can read all about the safety measures they have taken.

Possibly one of the most important new features is the built in safety relay that can disconnect power to the outlets in case of a solid state control failure as well as a timeout function that can cut power if the user's low temperature is not reached within 30 minutes. Three prong grounded outlets are standard assuring compatibility with most heating devices. The Herpstat 2 adds a second outlet/probe and has independant settings.

REALY GOOD article about Thermostst/heating safety
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Thank you!!!
 
9 adult corns, 7 sub adults, 12 hatchlings(i'm keeping 3), 1 king snake and 2 ball pythons. Both the bp's are males so I am trading one for a newborn red tail boa :)The king was a rescue, one bp was as well. I wanted a bp as something different and when a local breeder posted her new litter of boas I had to have one!
I picked this girl:
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I'm picking her up Sept 15 :)
 
Wyldrose said:
9 adult corns, 7 sub adults, 12 hatchlings(i'm keeping 3), 1 king snake and 2 ball pythons. Both the bp's are males so I am trading one for a newborn red tail boa :)The king was a rescue, one bp was as well. I wanted a bp as something different and when a local breeder posted her new litter of boas I had to have one!
I picked this girl:
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I'm picking her up Sept 15 :)
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What a cutie!!!
 
Sarah1228 said:
Really cool names btw!!!
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Those are actually what the snakes are called. Variable kings (Lampropeltis mexicana thayeri), are called variable because they have so many different "looks". These are all L.m.thayeri. And I didn't look that up, so nobody correct my spelling! (borrowed from teh interwebs):
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Grayband kings are called that because, well, they have gray bands. Here's one I produced many years gone by:
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An Okeetee, I guess you know, is a locality or "look" depending on who is answering of corn snake. I'll probably irritate people if I post any more pictures of those! And man, I need to stop looking at gray band pictures, I wish I'd never opened that photo folder.
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Adding one to my list Male Western HogNose =D
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That's my favorite personality in the entire snake world. Keep 'em a little hotter and dryer than corns, feed them lots of small meals, and be prepared for hunger strikes. But every hognose is different, that's half the fun!
 
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