Recent content by Paranoika

This little guy was given to me by a customer at the pet store where I work. Her son is convinced he's a milksnake. When I saw him, I thought Miami phase, but the head looks ratsnake-like. He was caught in their backyard around the outskirts of Madison in South-Central Wisconsin. Any ideas?

I got a call today from one of my employees (I manage a small pet store) letting me know that our russian tortoise is foaming out of its mouth and nasal passages. Not only was it my day off, but our exotics vet teaches all day on Wednesdays, so I can't get him in until tomorrow. I had the...

When my mom said she wanted to make a Lizard cake for my fiance's birthday, I thought "Hm, that's a neat idea". But I never imagined it would be this cool looking! Complete with a water dish and everything (I mean, everything, even a little icing fly!) This is what we came home to after work...

My fiance's baby ball python just passed away today. He's devastated. I'm thinking about getting him another baby. Any thoughts? And does anyone know where I can get another baby in good health? This little guy was bought at a pet store, and had been quite a bit of trouble. (not eating, etc)...

Right now I've got 4 males and 2 females, the exact opposite of what I want. So I was hoping that maybe someone had or knew of anyone with a couple of females to sell? Please? :)

I have a friend who owns a couple of Cali Kingsnakes. He tried to breed them, but ended up with just a couple slugs. Now he's approached me with the offer of pairing up my biggest male (Ketchup) with his female. Has anyone ever done a breeding like this before? Are there any pointers I should...

Sorry to pester again. But I went to check on the eggs (I do that about once every 6 days, or so), and I noticed something odd. One of the eggs is getting whiter, while all the others are getting yellower. Is there possibly a glimmer of hope with the one? Here's the pic I took, and also a pick...

Here are a couple pics, finally. Lol. The amel on the left is Cornelius, the dad. And the anery is Isis, the mamma. Like I've said before, this was not an intended breeding, b/c Isis is so tiny. She's recovering well and is not double clutching! :) She's also about to shed and doesn't look as...

Has anyone ever heard of/used Ivomec for mites? Would you recommend it?

I was browsing for incubators online. They're pretty expensive, but might be worth it for a small scale project. Does anyone have any that they would recommend? How well do they work?

I opened up the container with my eggs to put in some moss, and discovered all the eggs just kind of shriveled up... the perlite obviously didn't maintain enough humidity... I feel so bad... like I killed those poor babies! I'm almost crying right now... I wish I had known better what I was...

My mom came into my room to check on Isis' eggs while I was at work and accidentally turned off the switch that connects to the plugs that the heating pads were attached to, which made the temp shoot down to 74! :( Is there still any hope for the eggs!???

I went to wal-mart to find bedding to incubate the eggs in and they recommended the Expert Gardener Moisture Mix Potting Soil. The ingredients are: reed-sedge peat, composted forest products, sphagnum peat moss, horticultural perlite, ground dolomitic limestone, a wetting agent, time-released...

I went to take my female out of the terrarium she shares with a male (they'd never shown signs of breeding, so it was my fault for keeping them together), and lo and behold there were eggs! One is obviously a dud, but there are six others that I'm not sure about. Here's the problem: we were...

I have an anerythristic female and an amelanistic male that I am hoping to breed and was told I could get snows out of this mix. Is that true? If not, what would the likely byproducts be?