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A few new herp pics

Hypancistrus

Hypancistrus

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Took a spat of pics this week of my corn snake and a few of the frogs while feeding. Only one of Jabba came out.

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I love this picture!! I saved it in a larger size, so I can print it and frame it. Isn't my boy cute?!??!?!? :) At last measure, he was just over 18" long- that was back in early February. He is starting to fatten up a bit, and will be switching over to fuzzy mice this week, full time. I've just used up the last of my large pinks.

Here's a few more.
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A decent shot of his ventral "checkerboard" belly scales.

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A head pattern close-up.

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Jabba, the African Bullfrog, who is in the middle of changing from his bright green striped neomorph coloration to the darker, "burnished" look of a juvenile who spends most of his time hunkered in dirt waiting for hapless small creatures to happen upon him.

And finally, my new fire skink. My biology teacher in 10th grade had one, and I spent 20 minutes staring at this one tonight at the local Petsmart before giving in to nostalgia and temptation and buying him. He's long... nearly an adult by all rights. As of yet, no name. An exceptionally lovely specimen if I do say so myself.

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Why Pele?? (I am not big on soccer- but I imagine there must be a reason for the suggestion)

Thanks for the kudos. This skink really is quite lovely. I can't wait to get him installed into a 10 gallon tomorrow. For now, he is chilling in a large critter keeper, which will be his feeding box too.
 
The Hawaiians had several images of the afterlife... The highest of these afterworlds was in a flaming crater at the top of the mountain of the volcano-goddess Pele, where there was no pain, only sheer delight."
Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology

Pele is just one of a number of Volcano Goddesses. In Hawaii she is Goddess of all volcanoes. Mount Kilauea, is where Pele is said to reside and it is still an active volcano. During the 1950s, when christian missionaries were busy converting the people to christianity, prayers to Pele preceded the stopping of lava at the edge of villages. The people still knew which chants and gifts would please Pele.
 
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