Recent content by ArvadaLanee

I went to take out Nightmare and hold him the other night, and he did something he's never done before. He lunged out of my hands quick as a flash, and I barely caught him before he got under the coffee table. When I did pick him up, he continued to thrash around like crazy, and I finally...

My boyfriend bought me a new camera. It's a nice little camera, and it has some cool settings, but I am still trying to figure out how to get great pictures with it. One reason he chose this camera was for the macro settings, so I could get some great pictures of the snakes, and tarantula, but...

I really want to go check out Repticon this year. I'm hoping my boyfriend will want to go, now that he just got his own snake. I'm a little worried though. I went to this awesome show in Texas called "Bird Mart," which actually had it's own mini-reptile section, and it was huge, and a ton of...

We have had our first snake, Nightmare, for a little over a year now. He was hatched in October of 2014. My boyfriend has now decided that he would like to have his own snake, and we just purchased a little female hatched in September of 2015. We have a seperate viv for her, in a different room...

Hello, all! As some of you may already know, my boyfriend has recently decided that he would like to get a corn snake. Yay! As it turns out, he has some very specific ideas about the kind of corn snake he wants, one of them being that he wants a young snake. This means, he may have to wait for...

A while back, I tried bumping Nightmare up from 2 pinkies to a fuzzy. He ate the first one alright, but it was on the smaller side. The second time I tried a fuzzy, it seemed a bit larger than the first, and it also seemed to take him a while to eat it. Shortly after eating, while he still had...

Poor Nightmare had a Regurge! The question is, did this happen because I accidentally fed him right before a shed, or is he still not ready for the fuzzies? Now that he has shed, should I go ahead and try him with another fuzzy, and maybe split the sides this time, or feed it to him in halves or...

Nightmare last shed around June 27th, (I am not sure of the exact date because he hides so much when he is shedding, and always sheds in his "tree" where it's hard to find his old skin.) He also just made the switch from pinkies to fuzzies, and he has only had two so far. I went to check on him...

Last night, when Nightmare was eating his fuzzy, he coiled around it, which he has never done before. I know corn snakes are constrictors, but I was still a little worried that he may have done this because his fuzzy was too big. It just seemed to take him a while to eat. The fuzzy was not...

Holy crap! As a first time snake owner, I was a little freaked out when I saw how much bigger a fuzzy is, compared to a pinky. I have begun to think of it, as "New Mom Syndrome," the way I worry about our little Nightmare. I was all worried he would get the fuzzy stuck halfway down his throat...

I am thinking Nightmare may be about to shed. I saw him going into his hide with his wet moss a couple of times, and his eyes seem a little dull, but not really blue yet. His eyes were very blue last time. It was really cool to see. Since it seems too early to tell yet, am I fine to just go...

Tonight after feeding Nightmare, he started doing this cute thing where he was rubbing his face on the bottom of his critter keeper. He had just eaten a pinky and then a half pinky, and there was a tiny drop of blood at the corner of his mouth, so I thought perhaps he was trying to wipe his...

I'm just curious. When you do a full cleaning of the viv, do you also do a bit of redecorating? Why or why not? Do you think snakes ever get bored with the same old set up, or do you think keeping things the same would be more comforting? So far, I have done a little redecorating when I do full...

Here are a couple of Nightmare being held by my son, Caesar. Pretty cute.

I just finished my training to become a hospice volunteer. During my training, my teacher and I discussed therapy pets. She is an awesome teacher, and she agreed with me that music, and pet therapy can be great tools. The hospice company I am working with has used animals in the past, such as...