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Hognose owners?

We're having a big warm snap here. I even heard spring peepers (tree frogs) last night. The snakes in the brumation room have been climbing the walls looking for grub! I may buy or make a dedicated rack just for hoggies. I keep them a bit warmer than my other colubrids, and it just makes no sense to keep everything from hogs to black milks in the same hatchling racks. I'm really rethinking how I house everything after losing that female. I wouldn't keep ferns and cacti in the same pot, ya know?
 
Hogs have been up for 18 days now. Very active and "pacing the cages" but none have taken a meal. This male gives me fits every spring, but usually the females eat by day 3-5. Far from worried, just an anomaly from past years. I love how really docile snakes can wake up on the wrong side of the bed for a few weeks after coming up. The male and larger female are both really "huffy" and ill when I check their water or try to feed. I'm not 100% certain that female wouldn't bite me right now!
 
I really couldn't effectively brumate any of my snakes this year as the garage, which is the only place it gets cold enough to brumate, was just too cold this year, usually staying in the high 30's and low 40's. So, I just kept everybody in the house and turned off the heaters for my females, which only got them down in the high 60's to low 70's in the house, for 2 months and didn't feed them as they were pretty bulked up prior. The males I mainly had in my walk-in closet which is kept at a temp of 80-82f. I'm really just winging it this year. :rolleyes:

After kicking the heaters back on and feeding my girls a couple of weeks ago, I did however start pairing up. So far, my male Pink Pastel has hooked up with my Possible Double Het PPA x Hypo female. I tried pairing them up last year and believe I had a hook-up, but nothing ever came of it. So, hopefully I'll have better luck this year as I really just want to prove her out whether she's actually Het for anything.

I also put my albinos together and they are doing the jerky dance with each other, so hopefully they'll get excited enough to hook up as well.

I still have several other Western Hog pairings I'll be doing within the next few weeks as well.

I also put my Bi-Color and Tri-Color South American Hogs together and witnessed hook-ups almost immediately. Maybe I'll get better luck this time around with those this year as well.

I just can't wait until next year when hopefully my Axanthics are mature enough to breed as well as my 3 other albino females. That's when I'll go crazy with the double het for snow project. I really want one of those soooooo bad! :)

elrojo said:
The male and larger female are both really "huffy" and ill when I check their water or try to feed.
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I hear ya. All of my females have been extremely excited and I've already been tagged twice by two of them due to extremely aggressive feeding behaviors. And my males have been constantly pacing with only half eating, the other half hooding and hissing wanting to find a mate. So, I'm doing my best to accommodate all my hungry females and horny males the best I can. ;)
 
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