Recent content by plasticknives

I was handling my 6 month old corn snake today- and I noticed that while I was handling her, from time to time I'd hear little cracking sounds. It didn't look like it had anything to do with her breathing, so I don't think It's an RI. She just came out of blue, and I concluded that it was the...

I have been following some of these genetic threads for a while, and I am sincerely interested in learning something about all this mendelian genetics and the like. However, as an arts student most of what I'm seeing in this sub-forum looks to me like.....well, gibberish. I've read and...

I can't help wanting to have Tolmie out all the time- how much handling is too much handling?

as promised.....PICTURES! Keep in mind I'm still suffering from new-snake-owner-itis, so I tend to take pictures of EVERYTHING she does. Sorry. Here is her perfect shed- and the jar it is going in! Kind of gross to keep dead skin around, i guess, but mostly just way cool. Tolmie's new...

i just wanted to share my fascination- my roomates just don't understand how unbelievably cool i find this.... Tolmie just shed for the first time in my care! and it was SO. COOL. I just can't get over the fact that they just slither out of their skins like little snake-shaped stockings...

Sorry about the odd sizing of the pictures, they uploaded a bit oddly. I woke up yesterday morning and Tolmie was going for a little swim! I think she might have just come out of blue, because she looks a lot duller than she did a week ago? I took her out last night because she was out...

I saw this idea on another forum, and thought it was cute..... so I thought I'd bring it over here, hopefully we can all have a little fun with it. **************************** Miss/ Mister CS.com 2007 Contestants! **************************** drumroll please.....presenting TOLMIE! '06...

this is a slightly odd question- how often should my 3 month old hatchling be uh... using the facilities? I've fed her three pinky mice so far and she still hasn't left any nice presents in her tank for me... I just wondered how normal this was. Or am i just not looking hard enough? ?

Hello all! My name is Kelsey and I am debatably new- I have been lurking slash researching slash stealth-posting for about a year, but having just recently (finally...) acquired my normal cornsnake (Tolmie) about a week ago, I have newly become active. Thus, I figure a belated intro is in...

Yesterday I noticed that the very tip of my baby normal's tail was a little darker then the rest of her, and upon really close examination, I realized that the very end of her tail hadn't come off from her last shed (in the petstore) I used the ol' snake-o-bath, as advised on these forums, and...

Tolmie had a couple of hides that she NEVER used, so I took them out and replaced them with an ingenious idea of mine: and egg carton. She LOVES it. She can hide underneath it, behind it, in it, crawl around on top of it.... its like a little snake jungle gym! also... ...

whats the most creative/best hide you've ever used for a snake? i have a good thing going with an egg carton at the moment - its the perfect size for a hatchling to explore and provides two places to hide for the price of one! anyone else have any suggestions?

I cannot, for the life of me, resize any of my photos so that theyre small enough to be uploaded as an avatar without them also being about the size of a pea. can someone slightly more computer-literate help me?

This is my three month old normal hatchling Tolmie...! check out the little spiral or "c" on her head Here is my boyfriend holding her. He was pretty skeptical about snakes for a while- but he admitted the other day after he got to hold her that she was pretty awesome. :) She just...