FoolishTook
New member
Hello there!
I got hooked on the idea of a corn snake as a companion from my friend Ben, whom you'd know here as Onarian. I purchased Andromeda from him a few days ago: he'd gotten her as a two-year-old just a couple of days before that, but I fell so deeply in love with her intense cloth-of-gold coloration that he passed her on to me!
I'm a full-time grad student (clinical mental health, probably going trauma studies), part-time administrator at a local university, yogi, weight-lifter, and improv actor. The relatively little amount of time I could spend with a pet was obviously a big obstacle: no dog or bird would be happy with just the couple of hours an evening I could dedicate to it. Corn snakes have what I'm hoping to be the perfect balance between interest in interaction (or at least enjoying the opportunity to explore or to use my body heat) and total non-attachment to socialization in case I can't be around for a few days at a time.
Andromeda - "Andi" - will make her way up from Pennsylvania in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'm setting up her terrarium (lots of branches and "bonsai"-shaped hide, since Ben attests to how much she loves to climb), doing research (whether to put the heater under the tank or on the side, the fact that I should have gotten a probe thermometer instead of a sticky, whether or not to brumate her, how these genetics actually work and what lingo to use), and generally getting really excited.
She's an amber with het diffused and stripe, so Ben and I are looking forward to breeding her with Cetus this year (hypo lav, het diffused, stripe) and perhaps next year to a to-be-named caramel pewter het amel 66% diffused. I'll likely be getting a lot of questions along the way, so I thought better to make the introduction now!
Happy November, everyone!
Jamie
I got hooked on the idea of a corn snake as a companion from my friend Ben, whom you'd know here as Onarian. I purchased Andromeda from him a few days ago: he'd gotten her as a two-year-old just a couple of days before that, but I fell so deeply in love with her intense cloth-of-gold coloration that he passed her on to me!
I'm a full-time grad student (clinical mental health, probably going trauma studies), part-time administrator at a local university, yogi, weight-lifter, and improv actor. The relatively little amount of time I could spend with a pet was obviously a big obstacle: no dog or bird would be happy with just the couple of hours an evening I could dedicate to it. Corn snakes have what I'm hoping to be the perfect balance between interest in interaction (or at least enjoying the opportunity to explore or to use my body heat) and total non-attachment to socialization in case I can't be around for a few days at a time.
Andromeda - "Andi" - will make her way up from Pennsylvania in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'm setting up her terrarium (lots of branches and "bonsai"-shaped hide, since Ben attests to how much she loves to climb), doing research (whether to put the heater under the tank or on the side, the fact that I should have gotten a probe thermometer instead of a sticky, whether or not to brumate her, how these genetics actually work and what lingo to use), and generally getting really excited.
She's an amber with het diffused and stripe, so Ben and I are looking forward to breeding her with Cetus this year (hypo lav, het diffused, stripe) and perhaps next year to a to-be-named caramel pewter het amel 66% diffused. I'll likely be getting a lot of questions along the way, so I thought better to make the introduction now!
Happy November, everyone!
Jamie
