MysticExotics
(formerly NWHeather)
Wade, that's the guy who drank the cup of thawing mice, instead of his drink, right? LOL
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Where did everybody go?!
- Thread starter martin-bernstein
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I'm a new guy here. Just got my first Okeetee a week ago. First feeding was last night. I just want to say thank you for all the help I've gotten so far. I'm learning a lot reading the older posts about care and feeding. Don't know if I'll ever get into breeding but I definitely want a second snake.
I was hoping the hurricane would dissipate to just a tropical rainstorm. After Irma I asked on the forum if anyone knew if you were safe, but nobody responded. I hope you guys make it through this one with no damage.
Nanci
Alien Lover
Irma was super stressful. I evacuated with ~50 snakes, one tortoise, one pigeon, two dogs. My work made it super stressful by forcing us to divide into two teams, A and B. B was told they would have to report to work after the all clear, to let Team A go home. (In the past, people just volunteered if they wanted to work- it's good money. Then those of us who wanted to stay home easily could.) Well, a tree fell across the road of the place I evacuated to, so I was trapped anyway. I'm still angry about how my work handled the whole thing. Like, I was already worried about if my house was going to be intact. I didn't need the added stress.
I would have sat out Irma but talk of 9 foot storm surges had the family worried. Then the local authorities said mandatory evacuation. I scrambled to combine the snakes in any containers with lids and place them as high in the rooms as possible. I didn't know where we would end up hunkered down for sure, but we did take our two little dogs.
After the storm passed I loaded the corns back into the racks, but noticed I had put a young male lavender and a young male coral ghost together in the same container. Unfortunately, the lavender has a pink background color like the coral ghost, and the coral ghost has a lavender tint to his saddles. So I checked the eyes and found both males looked the same. Then I checked the belly patterns and, you guessed it, both appear the same. I'm waiting for them to mature so hopefully I can tell them apart.
After the storm passed I loaded the corns back into the racks, but noticed I had put a young male lavender and a young male coral ghost together in the same container. Unfortunately, the lavender has a pink background color like the coral ghost, and the coral ghost has a lavender tint to his saddles. So I checked the eyes and found both males looked the same. Then I checked the belly patterns and, you guessed it, both appear the same. I'm waiting for them to mature so hopefully I can tell them apart.
chris68
Arundel Reptiles
Okeetee's is the perfect "first" corn. Three babies from this year :grin01:
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Nanci
Alien Lover
I've been able to tell look-a-likes apart by weight.
Do you mean one was older, and hence weighed more? That would have worked, except both males were hatched about the same time, and both weigh about the same now. I am assuming the pink background of the lavender will diminish as he matures.
insomniac101
Occupant
I suppose that was a silly question. After so many years of being responsible for hundreds of snakes, it probably feels good to have some freedom! For my husband and I to go anywhere requires strategic planning for the four dogs, snakes, and rodent colonies.
I could probably be happy without so many pets, if there were enough critters around here to enjoy outside. But it's Michigan weather, and a concrete jungle we live in.
Kathy
insomniac101
Occupant
I don't know of many people around here, but we're kind of close-mouthed about the collection. I guess I'm paranoid about getting burglarized if I tell people what I have. Actually, no one, other than a couple family members (and you guys, of course), even know I have snakes.
I don't know if the Taylor reptile expo was around when you were here. We usually go each month, just to look around, and chat with a few people. Snake people are weird!
Kathy
insomniac101
Occupant
Congrats! They're definitely addicting though; that second one may very well turn into five, or twelve, or twenty, or . . . .
I speak from experience!
Kathy
I don't know of many people around here, but we're kind of close-mouthed about the collection. I guess I'm paranoid about getting burglarized if I tell people what I have. Actually, no one, other than a couple family members (and you guys, of course), even know I have snakes.
I don't know if the Taylor reptile expo was around when you were here. We usually go each month, just to look around, and chat with a few people. Snake people are weird!
Kathy
When I lived there my son knew most of the snake people. I had no interest in anything but the colubrids, but I listened to the people chat about their other snakes. There were quite a few boa and python breeders in that area. I don't want to offend anyone who loves them, but I turned down offers of free boas and pythons, just not my cup of tea. My son and his friends tried to tell me how valuable the snakes were, and they named morphs like sunglows or moonglows, or something similar that meant nothing to me.
I don't remember going to the Taylor show, just Romulus and Columbus. Besides snakes I raised chameleons, geckos, bearded dragons, and a host of other lizards, plus tortoises. I usually stocked up on crickets, roaches, meal worms, and super worms at the shows too.
When I was young, neither did I.
Then when I did, I was certain I was the only person in the world really interested in snakes. I was flabbergasted to learn that there was even something like the Maryland Herpetological Society.
Of course, that was all in the pre-internet days.
When I was about 10 years old exploring the woods and fields around my area I chanced upon a garter snake breeding ball. If you have never seen one, this thing was a mass of writhing snakes the size of a soccer ball. I thought I died and went to Heaven. I ran home and got a big box and captured the whole ball of snakes. I ran home only to find all of them but one had squeezed out the bottom of the box. I looked for a long time and never saw another sight like that. If I were that female garter I probably would have hid out too.
Frank Pinello
New member
As long as I remember I was always bringing frogs, toads, turtles an the occasional snake home. I wasn't until after I graduated from college (early 90s) that I started breeding corn snakes. It started after I purchase a book about corn morph back in '91 that got me interested. It became my main adult life hobby.
MalinoisK9
What to type here?
It's been quite a while since I was on here last. Saw Dale's post on FB about Wade's passing and thought about 8-9 years ago and all the good times there were.
I'm also new. Where we are people avoid your house if they know you have snakes. Our nanny refused to clean our room for a while after we first got snakes.I don't know of many people around here, but we're kind of close-mouthed about the collection. I guess I'm paranoid about getting burglarized if I tell people what I have. Actually, no one, other than a couple family members (and you guys, of course), even know I have snakes.
I don't know if the Taylor reptile expo was around when you were here. We usually go each month, just to look around, and chat with a few people. Snake people are weird!
Kathy
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