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Got inspired to get the camera out again tonight and take a few shots of some of my favorite species we keep. The adult chondro is one that we hatched out here in 2009 and will be bred this coming winter, the juvenile chondro is a holdback from a clutch we hatched last year and is just starting...

My wife and I are in the process of buying our first house (we're renting it now) and would like to convert part of the basement to our snake room once the house is ours. Right now we keep and/or breed several species including green tree pythons, ball pythons, macklots pythons, rainbow boas...

We got a new breeder female last year who was slightly underweight so we didn't brumate her and I didn't have high hopes we'd get anything, but she proved me wrong this morning. She's a ghost motley and he's anery het hypo and lavender. First time breeding for her, and she popped out 12 eggs...

My wife and I are considering writing a grant proposal to do some field work in conjunction with the WV DNR. They give special consideration to researchers interested in working with species of special concern within the state. Corn snakes are listed as WV reptiles, although to my knowledge...

Ok so this was brought up at work today as we were discussing this ridiculous pet ban that is flying through the WV house right now.... nonprofit groups are exempt from a lot of these laws, so somebody asked if we could legitimately qualify as a non-profit group since we do a lot of public...

I spoke with my local representative the other day regarding the proposed West Virginia bans and had decent results. This is regarding HB4344 & SB477 which are mentioned in a couple of other threads below this one. HB4344 is basically dead because the Natural Resources Committee doesn't meet...

I bought a 2 year old female corn off of a breeder at an expo in late September of this year and she is by far the most problematic feeder of any snake I have with one exception. I think since then she's only eaten for me maybe about 4 times total, and that's trying multiple types of food items...

What I'd like to try to do is create a running list of reptile related books and reviews that forum members here might find interesting. I have 14 books in my collection...some of which I think are great and others I could do without. I'm hoping that by doing this I can get some other ideas for...

I haven't taken many photos of the snakes lately, but I had the week off and decided to get the camera out today. These guys are ~6-7 months old. The red is my favorite one of the dozen or so we have left from two clutches and one I would consider holding back.

I haven't had anything shipped to me in awhile. What's a ballpark cost for shipping a snake through Fedex?

Had 13 hatch and 1 full-term red dead in the egg. These are half-siblings to the clutch I posted a month or so ago and the first thing we noticed was how light the yellow hatchlings are. It's a pretty major change from the others we've hatched out, and the picture below with just two yellow...

Of the 12 good eggs, 8 have hatched and exited so far. Three more are pipped, and the last one appears to be dead in the egg I'm afraid...full pigmentation and everything, but no obvious movement and it just has that "feel" to it. But anyway, we got three different looks out of this clutch...

FYI - I wasn't sure about posting this but I ran it by the mods and Rich and it was OK'd. I am not selling this, nor am I gaining anything from it. I just thought it'd be nice to pass this along. I renewed my subscription the other night for $9 using a good discount I was able to get through...

This is easily one of the gentlest snakes we own... and since he's recently matured he's got more on his mind than food. I wanted to take some photos tonight and since he's the only one that didn't eat last night he's a prime candidate to take out and photograph! He's probably our most plain...

Normally I don't take many pictures at work but I had to grab this one today. The chute between the indoor and outdoor cat areas is right in front of my off-exhibit reptile area and this cub has been hanging out there a lot lately while he gets used to his shipping crate. He'll be moving to the...

This goes against what I usually try to promote as a typical green tree python. Normally they're great, but they all have their days... Almost got me, but not quite!

We wanted to send this out last year but we never actually got around to taking the picture. The centerpiece of this year's Christmas card is Marge, our burmese python. We wanted to include two other small snakes in the photo but Marge wasn't as cooperative as we had hoped. Yes, she's actually...

So my wife's birthday was last week and I learned something... whenever a relative gives you a gift and says "the rest are practical, but this is for the soul", you'd better be prepared to A) Smile and nod, and B) control your facial expression when you open it. Her grandmother got her this...

Last week I posted a picture of our male Macklot's python but I had to tweak the setup a little bit so I decided to get my female out last night and give it a shot. I had a really hard time getting the photos levels to balance out because of the high contrast between the light and dark halves of...

These guys are ~2 years old from a clutch we hatched out in 2009. The second one is the melanistic (or mite phase...whatever you want to call it) one that I posted the photos of the other day. I liked the lighting of this new setup a little more than the previous one so I grabbed some more shots...