WingedSweetheart
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Hi my name is Ashley. I just turned 24 on July 10th and I live in West Virginia. I've wanted a snake for as long as I could remember and was always in hog heaven living out in the middle of nowhere because of all the wildlife and especially the snakes! The basement of the home I grew up in always had a lot of ring neck snakes (black snakes with yellow rings around their necks and yellow or orange bellies) and black racers. Plus are garden outside always had a few garter snakes in it. So I spent most of my play time hunting for snakes to play with. I would just pick them up and let them slither through my fingers a while and then put them back. I would never have dreamed of hurting them. Always made me cry when my parents would find a copperhead and kill it. I knew it wasn't like the other and could kill me but still, it wasn't doing anything but living under a wood pile or something. They also would kill the the other snakes I mentioned...
Anyway, last year against my mother's wishes I bought myself a corn snake for my birthday. I told my mom my boyfriend actually bought it so that she wouldn't totally kill me since I still live with her. I hunted online and found some really pretty snakes but what really caught my eye was the Bubblegum Snow. I just had to have one but I couldn't find any breeders. I was about to give up when I came across Lynnea Stadelmann website and the picture of her Bubblegum Snow Bazooka. I fell in love and had to email her and lucky me Bazooka had eggs and I was put on the waiting list. I got my little baby Bubblegum snow on August 13 2009. I named her Sylvara and with every shed she gets more and more beautiful. For a while she kept getting pinker and now her green spots are starting to get darker. She is now almost a year old.
Here are a few pictures.
Sylvarah at 3 months:
Sylvarah at 6 months:
Sylvarah at 10 months with my cousin (most recent I have at the moment):
Now on to my newest snake. He or she also has a little bit of a story. I don't know the age or sex. I'm thinking it's a girl so I'll say she for now. Anyway, she had been at the pet shop for a little over a month and a pet shop that I don't like at that. But I have no other options for mice at the moment. I hate it because the employees in the reptile section tell people info that is so wrong I swear they just make it up on the spot. I over heard one tell a woman to use pine shavings as her new snakes bedding! Anyway, this little one had been there since it was just a couple weeks old at the most. They get two corns at a time usually and they are tiny. The day I bought my new corn snake was the day I seen that she had a bad shed and apparently the one before that was bad too (the stuck skin looked kinda thick). The skin was stuck to the tip of the tail and there was an indention all the way around like if you put a rubber band around your finger and left it there. I know I know. I'm not supposed to buy from pet shops but I didn't want this little one to die. It caught my eye the first day they got it in and everyday I went there she looked a little worse. Her skin looked really dry and she rarely had water and had no place to hide! Most of their snakes are only there a few days before they are bought and they are mostly always white with orange spots. No one wanted the little brown one for some reason. I guess they thought it was ugly. Anyway after I got my new baby home I managed to get the old skin off. The tip did fall off which made me mad at the pet shop but when I got her I already knew it was too late to save it. It took her only a couple days to calm down (at the store she was striking and biting the employee who got her out. But I swear as soon as I got her home and in a quiet place with no little kids pecking on the glass in her face all day she calmed right down. Never bit me or tried to strike. I guess I would have been stressed and mad too if I had to live like that.
That was almost a month ago and she looks so much better. She gets a pinkie every 3 three days because she is still very tiny but looking better everyday. She shed once shortly after I got her and the skin stuck because she was still a little dehydrated. I put some paper towels in a bowl and soaked them with warm water. Then I put her in for a few minutes and then got her out and let her slither through my fingers. I grabbed with a slight pressure with thumb and forefinger and let her crawl right out of her skin. Wasn't a big problem. That would have been three sheds so far so I don't know if she is close to three months or more. Sylvara always shed once a month when she was small.
I think her colors are really pretty. Her head is white, neck and half of her body yellow orange and the rest a light brown. Spots are a rust red with thin light black or gray lines around them. The spots get more brown as they go down the body (the outlines get darker too). The underbelly is white and changes to brown as it reaches the tail end with light brown checkers all the way down. She also has a strange mark on her head. I've always seen corn snakes with an arrow. This is the first corn I've seen with a mark like hers. I thought it looked like a flame with three points but my mom thinks it looks like a cow skull. Now when I look at it that is what I think of is a cow skull lol.
This is the only picture I've manage to get of the new baby:
Hope to get a picture of her weird belly and head markings. I'd really like to know the genetics but I'll never know. You can have a guess if you like
.
PS
Sorry for such a long post. Also since getting my first snake my parents have changed their views on snakes and they love them just as much as me now! They didn't know how much personality they actually had and it really surprised them.
PPS
If the baby is a boy he will be named Loki. If the baby is a girl she will be named Sigyn (Loki's wife). There's a story for that too but I think I've typed enough.
Anyway, last year against my mother's wishes I bought myself a corn snake for my birthday. I told my mom my boyfriend actually bought it so that she wouldn't totally kill me since I still live with her. I hunted online and found some really pretty snakes but what really caught my eye was the Bubblegum Snow. I just had to have one but I couldn't find any breeders. I was about to give up when I came across Lynnea Stadelmann website and the picture of her Bubblegum Snow Bazooka. I fell in love and had to email her and lucky me Bazooka had eggs and I was put on the waiting list. I got my little baby Bubblegum snow on August 13 2009. I named her Sylvara and with every shed she gets more and more beautiful. For a while she kept getting pinker and now her green spots are starting to get darker. She is now almost a year old.
Here are a few pictures.
Sylvarah at 3 months:
Sylvarah at 6 months:
Sylvarah at 10 months with my cousin (most recent I have at the moment):
Now on to my newest snake. He or she also has a little bit of a story. I don't know the age or sex. I'm thinking it's a girl so I'll say she for now. Anyway, she had been at the pet shop for a little over a month and a pet shop that I don't like at that. But I have no other options for mice at the moment. I hate it because the employees in the reptile section tell people info that is so wrong I swear they just make it up on the spot. I over heard one tell a woman to use pine shavings as her new snakes bedding! Anyway, this little one had been there since it was just a couple weeks old at the most. They get two corns at a time usually and they are tiny. The day I bought my new corn snake was the day I seen that she had a bad shed and apparently the one before that was bad too (the stuck skin looked kinda thick). The skin was stuck to the tip of the tail and there was an indention all the way around like if you put a rubber band around your finger and left it there. I know I know. I'm not supposed to buy from pet shops but I didn't want this little one to die. It caught my eye the first day they got it in and everyday I went there she looked a little worse. Her skin looked really dry and she rarely had water and had no place to hide! Most of their snakes are only there a few days before they are bought and they are mostly always white with orange spots. No one wanted the little brown one for some reason. I guess they thought it was ugly. Anyway after I got my new baby home I managed to get the old skin off. The tip did fall off which made me mad at the pet shop but when I got her I already knew it was too late to save it. It took her only a couple days to calm down (at the store she was striking and biting the employee who got her out. But I swear as soon as I got her home and in a quiet place with no little kids pecking on the glass in her face all day she calmed right down. Never bit me or tried to strike. I guess I would have been stressed and mad too if I had to live like that.
That was almost a month ago and she looks so much better. She gets a pinkie every 3 three days because she is still very tiny but looking better everyday. She shed once shortly after I got her and the skin stuck because she was still a little dehydrated. I put some paper towels in a bowl and soaked them with warm water. Then I put her in for a few minutes and then got her out and let her slither through my fingers. I grabbed with a slight pressure with thumb and forefinger and let her crawl right out of her skin. Wasn't a big problem. That would have been three sheds so far so I don't know if she is close to three months or more. Sylvara always shed once a month when she was small.
I think her colors are really pretty. Her head is white, neck and half of her body yellow orange and the rest a light brown. Spots are a rust red with thin light black or gray lines around them. The spots get more brown as they go down the body (the outlines get darker too). The underbelly is white and changes to brown as it reaches the tail end with light brown checkers all the way down. She also has a strange mark on her head. I've always seen corn snakes with an arrow. This is the first corn I've seen with a mark like hers. I thought it looked like a flame with three points but my mom thinks it looks like a cow skull. Now when I look at it that is what I think of is a cow skull lol.
This is the only picture I've manage to get of the new baby:
Hope to get a picture of her weird belly and head markings. I'd really like to know the genetics but I'll never know. You can have a guess if you like
.PS
Sorry for such a long post. Also since getting my first snake my parents have changed their views on snakes and they love them just as much as me now! They didn't know how much personality they actually had and it really surprised them.
PPS
If the baby is a boy he will be named Loki. If the baby is a girl she will be named Sigyn (Loki's wife). There's a story for that too but I think I've typed enough.
