Recent content by Hexadeci

I'll be moving soon from sunny SoCal to sunnier AZ. As one might expect of the desert in summer, it will be hot. :devil01: Any recommendations for making sure my pet (adult) corn snake makes it to the other side no worse for wear? I have the option to fly or drive. It's about an 8 hour...

Anyone here have any experience using ionizers (or other air filtering/purifying devices) around snakes? Are they safe for the lil guy's single lung to handle? Or, if not safe per-se, hopefully less unsafe than the second hand smoke I'd like to remove. I'm considering buying one since my new...

Any tips about flash with point and shoot? I know they aren't the greatest in general, but I'm trying to make do with what I've got for now, and what I've got is a point and shoot whose flash always washes out any picture. But I have to use flash to get a crisp image of that small, moving...

So, what are the advantages/disadvantages of DSLR vs point&shoot cameras? On first glance, it seems like pretty much DSLR is more complicated, but offers a wider range of control. I'm looking into buying a new (digital) camera. My decade-old 5 megapixel point and shoot is just not adequate...

So I recently finally upsized my hatchling's food. He's on peachies/double pinks as I can get them. This morning he made his first strike at a food! ...at the butt of the peachy, but it was hilarious. Guess he needs to work on his aim. Anyone else find a correlation between fur and more...

When up-sizing a baby corn's food for the first time, do yall prefer to go with 2 pinkies or 1 peachy? He's still too skinny to go straight to fuzzies (which look HUGE to me). I have no idea which one would actually be easier to digest (pinkies are skinnier, but 2 of them is a lot longer of...

Question! How do you actually tell the difference between similar looking milk snakes, rat snakes, kings and corals? And aren't coral snakes an entirely different order of snakes (elapid iirc, vs colubrids)? I mean short of a close up encounter with their teeth... Because people keep posting...

What procedures do y'all recommend for going on vacation and leaving a small snake at home? He's not really a hatchling anymore I suppose, but still eats like one due to various reasons. My family will be staying in the house, but they are not comfortable caring for the snake. I'm feeding him...

I might try the bath as a last resort. He's one of those Freak Out When Wet. Darts about in the water, won't calm down, and ends up sneezing so many times after I'm surprised he didn't come down with a respiratory infection. And it's been pretty humid around here. It just rained, room...

Any ideas for helping the hatchlings get sheds started? My baby's been in the clear phase (after the eyes turn blue and then clear up) for almost a week now, rubbing his head on everything. He hasn't eaten in about two weeks (since I won't feed him in blue because of the risk of regurge)...

Dern it, it's been a busy couple weeks and I haven't had time to handle between feeding/watering sessions. My hatchling has been hiding since last feeding (last Wednesday, he's on a 7 day schedule), which is not too unusual for him. It's been just over a month since last shed and I highly...

Does anyone ever notice sometimes after eating, the snake's food lump looks like you can see where the limbs are poking out a bit? I haven't noticed any pictures of this in photo's on this site, but then again who wants to bug a very full snake with a camera. Or is my little guy rather on the...

So, especially for those of you who use Layne Labs, about how much space does a package of 25 frozen pinkies take up? It would be more economical time and money wise for me to order "bulk" (tiny tiny bulk though it be) rather than jaunting down to the pet store every couple weeks, but I do...

It looks really strange to me, but maybe I'm looking at it strangely. Could you possibly get a picture from the right side of the snake, the part on the picture I marked with a yellow rectangle? It looks almost pinched to me... And then the part on the picture I circled in red, looks almost...

While eating, what does the rest of the snake do? It just occurred to me, watching Sherlock down another pinky, that the body/tail do funny things while the head is working. For a while the whole body down to the tail undulated back and forth while he was working out where to start on the...