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I'm trying to get some ideas on hides for freshly hatched babies. Last year I was using toilet paper tubes cut in half lengthwise, but obviously they didn't last long, with poop and whatnot :P Any ideas on what to use for hides? Preferable re-useable, and dishwasher safe, but that's probably...

Has anybody let the mamas incubate their own eggs? Thinking about trying it this year. Thoughts? Experience? Anecdotes?

I just posted about this on Facebook. Holy bananas! Thank you thank you thank you! Just because

Hey all, I've been told from a few different people that if you breed a visual Lav to another visual Lav (no matter how many other genes are involved) the risk of kinking is fairly significant. For anyone who has done it, is this true? Does anybody have information about this? I tried googling...

What are these!? Is the one on the right a Tessera Stripe, or a Normal Vanishing Stripe? The left one is obviously a Tessera. I am not sure if it is a Tessera Stripe, or just a regular Tessera. I thought Stripe but now that I am looking closer, the part near the neck that is not a complete...

My special little boy just shed today. He's a high-white Granite. I just discovered this paradoxing while cleaning tonight. Thanks for looking! PS - These are super quick cell snaps while cleaning...But I did just get a brand spankin' new camera...this season has kept me BEYOND busy...

Does anybody use Sani-chips for their corns? I have 2 right now who are sneezing and crackling. No RI. There's no mucus, no bubbles, no mouth holding open or any other signs of RI. Just little "achoos!" every now and again if you listen closely. I assume it's this Kaytee aspen stuff I grabbed...

Not my pics, but after hatching some particularly pink Snows, I had a suspicion that 2 of our snakes might actually be het. Hypo. Just came across photos on FB of a snake we sold awhile back and not sure what's up, he has a very unique look to him! Whatcha think?

Here are the comparison shots, I was wondering about these babies and every time I thought to snap pics they had full bellies, so I hadn't gotten around to it until today. I was told that clear belly scales on a Stripe indicate that Bloodred/Diffused is present also. So let's see if I am...

Looks too light to be an Anery Stripe, to me. They don't have the extreme head stamping that their Granite sibs do, though I've hatched Blood/Diffuseds from different clutches this year and the variance is insane between them. Thanks peeps!

This baby I hatched has an aberrant pattern. No connection to Motley OR Stripe and her parents have been test-bred to both. In your opinion, can incubation temperatures cause aberrant patterns to form? (Asking because somebody on Facebook is adamant that no outside factors can cause variation...

...Skeleton. With an Eastern Cottontail rabbit skeleton inside! (I know these two would never meet in the wild - but I guess when it comes to skeleton collecting, you take what you can get!) Both specimens were obtained humanely. The Crotalus Atrox was actually housed at a Venom Research lab and...

Is this a Charcoal Tessera, or Pewter Tessera? First pic is kinda dark: Better representation of colors: Tessera belly on the left: Whatcha think?

I opened the egg tub to put some foot powder on an egg from another clutch (same bin), and instead, I found PIPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had these eggs calculated to hatch on April 10th (which, on double-look, it should actually have been April 8th) But either way, they are hatching earlier than I...

Apparently this tortoise was presumed escaped 30 years ago and turned up in a store locker. They suspect he was feeding on termites but..really? Is that even possible that the tortoise could still be alive? Family Finds Tortoise That Was Missing for 30 Years