It's turning in to an addiction!

[Saucey]

The house went from reptile free to 5 in less than 2 weeks!

First came Phidippides, the 3 year old, 175g, Snow!

And he shed for me yesterday!

Then my sister got Hershey, about a year old, ate yesterday, g:

 

[Saucey]

Then I got Pop, 420g, around 5 years old:

Currently residing in the weird tank that Phidippide came in, with my custom made door:

Then my sister got Coraline, 320g, not sure on the age, supposed to be an Opal:

 

[Saucey]

I realize that Pops has little black spots, but I'm pretty sure that's dirt from the previous owner, I havn't seen any of them move, and a few of them are larger than little spots, would it be advisable to give him a bath? And if so, how?

 

[Corny Noob]

I could be wrong but Coraline still just looks like a snow to me.

And yes it is a sickness we all know it too well

 

[JustmeBC]

Beautiful snakes! And I have to agree with the addiction. I'm hopefully picking up a new amel tomorrow some time.

 

[PikaBun]

I realize that Pops has little black spots, but I'm pretty sure that's dirt from the previous owner, I havn't seen any of them move, and a few of them are larger than little spots, would it be advisable to give him a bath? And if so, how?

Let him swim in your tub for 10-20 mins. Just do a few inches of room temp to luke warm water (use a thermometer 72-82F). It's great exercise too!

 

[RavenSpirit360]

Yep definitely an addiction Beautiful snakes..!!

 

[Cornsnake124]

Nice snakes, but to me it looks like pop has mites.

 

[Cornsnake124]

oh and by the way, if pop really does have mites here is a good homemade remody.

 

[jdarlin02]

Well, at least I get to live vicariously through all of you and your snakes lol.

 

[giraffe77aft]

I love the photos! I am a newbie having recently purchased my first corn but can see how it can easily become an addiction. I am dying to get another one but we are probaby moving in the fall so I want to wait until after then to add another one. It is taking a lot of restraint though! I walked into a reptile shop the other day just to "look" and quickly realized I cannot do that. I almost walked out with their normal adult male corn.

 

[Saucey]

I took a closer look at the spots on Pop and I'm pretty positive they are not Mites at this point. I looked closely at some and they were lines, I took a pair of tweezers and they came out pretty easy, they seemed to be really small splinters. Some of the more dot-esque shapes wiped off easily and didn't leave a smear. I think a nice bath may be in the future. I am keeping my out for more spots to appear, he's living on Paper Towels at the moment.

Thank you for all the positive comments!

 

[Allison]

Nice collection and welcome to the forum! Good luck to Pop too, just keep him away from the others is worse comes to worse (Mites).

 

[Floof]

They're lovely snakes!

Lol, it is quite the addiction... I started with one corn snake back in November '07... I managed to hold off on #2 until December '08, but that one must've broke my unusual restraint--I've gotten 10 more in the 6 months since then! Still debating if that's a good thing or a bad thing... Lol.

Concerning Pop, whether or not he has mites, it would be a good idea to treat him as a preventative measure.. The mite remedy that was linked earlier looks great! I hadn't thought about mites much until I was given snake #12, a ball python kept in terrible conditions and has questionable health, this month, and I think I'm going to track down some Nix and use it on my entire collection, just for the peace of mind... I would suggest you do the same. Then you can reassure yourself (and us) that the specks were *just* dirt. =)

 

[Saucey]

It's definitely something I was thinking of doing, I just have to get some extra money first