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Progression thread: Cleo the Butter Motley
- Thread starter DollysMom
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DollysMom
It never gets old!
Thank you. I love her dearly. As to the camera it is the 2x optical lens of the iPhone 7 Plus. I take most of my snake pics with the phone because it is most handy and I still don't have a macro lens for my dSLR. Also, I can hold the phone in one hand. (My phone and dSLR cost about the same if I recall)
Thank you. I've said it before, but she is my little girly girl. She seems to know how pretty she is!
DollysMom
It never gets old!
Happy 2nd Birthday Cleo!
Cleo turned two yesterday (August 28, 2017)! She was still digesting so the celebration and this post had to wait a day.
I still remember the little six week old noodle I brought home from Tinley in October 2015. Seems like yesterday. She was already a healthy 14 grams. She shed the first night she was home. She's still my champion shedder, producing the most beautiful, complete, pure white sheds. She was a reluctant feeder with me at first, but I simulated the bin she was used to in the breeding facility by feeding in a covered deli cup. Soon she was taking the mouse from the tongs and when we got to hoppers she started vigorously constricting.
She's full of life and personality. She still has the mystery bumps that I discovered last fall, but they seem smaller when they do appear which seems not as often. She will get a check up with the vet in October.
Between our eclipse trip to Tennessee and her 8 day feeding schedule (she's a hungry growing snake and I follow her lead) I haven't had her out much for the last two weeks. She was "miss perpetual motion" today. So these are not the greatest pictures I've ever gotten, but at least I have some to memorialize this milestone.
In her first year she grew to 134 grams. I was looking to double that in her second year and amazingly she weighed 267 just before her feeding 3 days ago.
Feeding her is a hoot. I thaw her mouse in cold water and then warm it in warm water. I can no longer have the mouse out of the water before I put her in her feeding bin. This time even that wasn't enough! I opened the plastic container with the mouse and before I could even pat it dry with a paper towel she was flying out of the feeding bin and getting ready to bob for the mouse! I got it in the tongs just in time and she struck and constricted halfway out of the feeding bin. I just gently lifted her and the mouse back to the bin. I don't think she noticed. Her current feeding schedule is a 15 gram mouse every 8 days.
So there you have a brief picture of life with Cleo at age two. She is amazing and I just love her to pieces!
Cleo turned two yesterday (August 28, 2017)! She was still digesting so the celebration and this post had to wait a day.
I still remember the little six week old noodle I brought home from Tinley in October 2015. Seems like yesterday. She was already a healthy 14 grams. She shed the first night she was home. She's still my champion shedder, producing the most beautiful, complete, pure white sheds. She was a reluctant feeder with me at first, but I simulated the bin she was used to in the breeding facility by feeding in a covered deli cup. Soon she was taking the mouse from the tongs and when we got to hoppers she started vigorously constricting.
She's full of life and personality. She still has the mystery bumps that I discovered last fall, but they seem smaller when they do appear which seems not as often. She will get a check up with the vet in October.
Between our eclipse trip to Tennessee and her 8 day feeding schedule (she's a hungry growing snake and I follow her lead) I haven't had her out much for the last two weeks. She was "miss perpetual motion" today. So these are not the greatest pictures I've ever gotten, but at least I have some to memorialize this milestone.
In her first year she grew to 134 grams. I was looking to double that in her second year and amazingly she weighed 267 just before her feeding 3 days ago.
Feeding her is a hoot. I thaw her mouse in cold water and then warm it in warm water. I can no longer have the mouse out of the water before I put her in her feeding bin. This time even that wasn't enough! I opened the plastic container with the mouse and before I could even pat it dry with a paper towel she was flying out of the feeding bin and getting ready to bob for the mouse! I got it in the tongs just in time and she struck and constricted halfway out of the feeding bin. I just gently lifted her and the mouse back to the bin. I don't think she noticed. Her current feeding schedule is a 15 gram mouse every 8 days.
So there you have a brief picture of life with Cleo at age two. She is amazing and I just love her to pieces!
DollysMom
It never gets old!
Karl_Mcknight
Common Sense Holder
Well Happy birthday Miss Cleo!
And it's too bad you didn't have that feeding on video. Sounds like my kind of movie.
DollysMom
It never gets old!
For several months I feel like I haven't gotten as many pictures of my girl Cleo. She's always on the move, though the deliberate adult kind of move. She's well out of the flighty youngster phase and is definitely a young lady.
Before her feeding on Monday she weighed 272 grams. She is my most enthusiastic eater and is on an 8 day feeding schedule to accommodate her obvious need to grow right now. She's eating small adult mice. I have a feeling she will slow a bit as the days grow shorter and the house is a little cooler at night.
Before her feeding on Monday she weighed 272 grams. She is my most enthusiastic eater and is on an 8 day feeding schedule to accommodate her obvious need to grow right now. She's eating small adult mice. I have a feeling she will slow a bit as the days grow shorter and the house is a little cooler at night.
Karl_Mcknight
Common Sense Holder
love the 1st picture with her looking up at the camera. I've had boas, ball pythons, king snakes and corn snakes, and I've got to say, Corn snakes seem to be the most curious and inquisitive, as she certainly looks that way in that picture.
DollysMom
It never gets old!
Thanks, Karl! I haven't kept the other species you have, but I agree with your impression of corn snakes. That picture to me captures her personality.
I also think Cleo takes her lead from Rufus. I know sometimes I catch her on my iPad looking at Rufus's progression.
DollysMom
It never gets old!
She thinks she's starving, Ken, but I do stick to the schedule and don't let the pouty face get to me.
There are things only experience teach, and watching the small and nuanced changes in your animals through the seasons is one of them. We start out with with the rough guidance of the Munson plan and then learn and adjust from there!
There are things only experience teach, and watching the small and nuanced changes in your animals through the seasons is one of them. We start out with with the rough guidance of the Munson plan and then learn and adjust from there!
DollysMom
It never gets old!
Thanks, DLena. She is quite a girl!
As to the school, it sounds like some kind of nanny software that doesn't allow pictures from some sites. It is better to err on the side of caution when young children are involved. Imgur has some pretty icky stuff on it. I only use it to host my snake pictures so I ignore the rest of it.
DLena
Corns are goram shiny!
Oh yea, we have tons of "preemptive" software in school, yet somehow the kids find the holes...
It's so frustrating to have to wait to see what I know are great pictures, from everyone else's replies. It makes the time from lunch to out-the-door interminably long some days, but it's always worth the wait!
It's so frustrating to have to wait to see what I know are great pictures, from everyone else's replies. It makes the time from lunch to out-the-door interminably long some days, but it's always worth the wait!