Recent content by Missymonkey

I am heading to Florida this June for my honeymoon, and my fiance and I are interested in doing a little herp searching. We've never done this before ever, so any advice would be helpful. I guess I'm just looking for any sugguestions on where there may be corns and how to go about looking for...

I am getting a tattoo with my fiance as x-mas presents to ourselves. Kilojara was gracious enough to pass on some of her nacho artwork (which I love) and I kinda mooshed two of them to get this pic, which will be my tattoo sans the background: I wanted a happy okeetee corn like the first one I...

I know a breeder near to me who is selling a copperhead rat snake, also known as the radiated rat snake or elaphe radiata, and I am pretty sure he is going to try to rip me off. (I am an amateur and knows that I don't have a great deal of knowledge about snakes and how much they are worth)...

Finish my sentance: Corn snakes don't eat______

here's my new little girl, I have had her now for about a week, she is a voracious little eater, which is nice since Maisy my okeetee is very polite and won't eat if anyone is watching... Boo is named after my favorite 2 year old, from the movie, Monsters Inc. I know this is a fuzzy pic, I just...

Sigh, I read posts about this happening all the time and as careful as I am it happened to me: Before leaving on a long weekend trip to Madison I asked my fiance to take Zoe my anery out of the paper lunch bag I had her in for feeding. Now Scott is a good man and I know it was a mistake and I...

I have just recieved my two female hatchlings, and just wanted to know if handleing them everyday is a bad idea. I don't want to over stress them, but they are so darn cute. Should I ease into "hey I'm the big pink monster who has hands and arms and feeds you" thing, or can I just jump right in...

I've heard of people cutting the tails off their rats and adult mice before feeding them to their snakes, they do this to prevent them from rotting inside the snakes.... is this worthwhile? or true... also, do you guys use tongs or tweezers to feed your snakes with? thanks, Missy

Does anyone put rocks in their set-ups? I was up north (or as we say in wisconsin up nort) by lake superior and found some nice flat stones which I thought may be nice basking stones (I am not sure if snakes bask, I know lizards do because in that one song over in the meadow by the gate made of...

i know that if you house two corns together that you are suppost to feed them separate from each other. However I also know that you are not suppost to handle a snake for 24 hoursafter it's been fed. So if I take one snake out and place him in a sterilite shoe box feed him,... then what? is it...

Does anyone know of any fun herp events happening in the midwest this summer/fall? All I can seem to find are the random herp club meetings here at UWSP and those aren't really what I'm looking for. I know I am awfully north and out of corn range but I was hoping some of ya'll living in the...

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I live in a very busy apartment with lots of people coming and going. Because pof this I am concerned that all the rattling and thumping is going stress my snakes out, nothing like a big stressful moment where they go nuts, but I am more concerned about the gradual build-up of stress because...

www.snakequiz.com I took both snake quizes (the harder one and the one for "normal people" like normal people don't own 60 corn snakes and smack mice around to feed there corn that they bought with the money they got from pawning their sons off) I got a six out of ten on both,... which is 60%...

(I figured the really smart people are always on this forum/posting place, cuz you guys all understand all the genetic lingo statistical math stuff so I thought you guys would give the most educated answer) are corn snakes color blind? (can they watch tv with me?... not that I expect them to...