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new member, new snake!! (UK)

whoute

whoute

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Well, joined here a few days ago and today i got my first corn snake! hes very small right now and tucking into a pinkie, but he's so cute!! called him slither, haha.Hes a Quad Het amber.

sp happy right now :crazy02:
 
Welcome to the site! There are loads of lovely friendly people hanging around here, I've had even my dumbest questions answered with smiles :) Congrats on getting your snake, would love to see pics when you get some. Where abouts in the UK are you?
 
Woohoo another Brit :) Welcome to the forum. This is a great place to come and ask questions, the folks here seem to know just about everything and the 'search' function at the top is a great way to looking for answers as well.

Or heck, this is just a great place to come to hang out and chat to people with the same addiction. They're all pretty friendly round here :cheers:

StubbyUK
 
ickle_moose said:
Welcome to the site! There are loads of lovely friendly people hanging around here, I've had even my dumbest questions answered with smiles :) Congrats on getting your snake, would love to see pics when you get some. Where abouts in the UK are you?
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I live in Lancashire, small place called Morecambe on the north-west coast, right by the sea.

Will post pictures when i can get my digicam workin!!
 
Cool! I was born in Bury, outskirts of Manchester. Now when I'm in the UK I live in Scarborough, got to love those sea-side towns :) Though currently living in Kaohsiung in Taiwan (another sea-side place). If I'm not near the sea, feel a bit lost!
 
Hi there! Welcome to the forums. I'm really curious about your snake and I'm trying to get a mental image. Is he an amber with 4 other hets ot a quad het normal who is het for hypo and caramel as well as 2 others? Can't wait for the photos!
 
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Hi there! Welcome to the forums. I'm really curious about your snake and I'm trying to get a mental image. Is he an amber with 4 other hets ot a quad het normal who is het for hypo and caramel as well as 2 others? Can't wait for the photos!
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I dont exactly know, that was just what the woman in the shop told me!!
 
whoute said:
I dont exactly know, that was just what the woman in the shop told me!!
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hehehe-people in shops often say a lot of things to sell a snake!


Quad het means that it carries 4 single copies of different recessive mutations, so if you bred a ghost (anery and hypo) to an amel motley(amel and motley) the babies would all be normals and het for amel, anery, motley and hypo (hence the name 'quad het'). If your snake is an amber it is HOMOZYGOUS for caramel and hypo and if it is an amber het then it is a normal looking snake with TWO hets (hypo and caramel), so calling it a caramel quad het is, as you can see, confusing for me!
 
princess said:
hehehe-people in shops often say a lot of things to sell a snake!


Quad het means that it carries 4 single copies of different recessive mutations, so if you bred a ghost (anery and hypo) to an amel motley(amel and motley) the babies would all be normals and het for amel, anery, motley and hypo (hence the name 'quad het'). If your snake is an amber it is HOMOZYGOUS for caramel and hypo and if it is an amber het then it is a normal looking snake with TWO hets (hypo and caramel), so calling it a caramel quad het is, as you can see, confusing for me!
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all sounds very confusing. I will try and get pics sorted asap so u can see! Can u tell from pictures what he is?
 
whoute said:
Can u tell from pictures what he is?
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Usually. We can in most cases tell you what he is in phenotype (what he looks like on the outside) but will probably not be able to tell you what he is het for. You should ask the woman at the shop exactly what his hets are. If he's only het for caramel and hypo, then he's a double het.

Get her to write it down so you have a record of it.
 
well, i just went to take a pic of him but hes nowhere to be seen! must be hiding somewhere but hes really good at it!!
typical!
 
ok well ive pretty much just emptied his tank and i really dont think hes in there. Anyone know the best way of finding a 15inch really small snake when he could possibly be in one of 6 rooms?!?!?!?
 
Oh dear :( Not to worry, there's a few tried and tested tricks for finding lost little ones. Search the forum for 'lost snake', should turn up a lot as it happens all the time. Just a quick list:

Seal off all vents, holes, under-door spaces, drains that lead outside with something it can't prize off.

Don't just look on one level, these things can get right up to the ceiling so check the undersides of everything too.

Check everywhere warm, so boilers, top of fridge, underside of dishwasher, etc.

If you don't know which room it's in, sprinkle something powdery (flour or something) around all the entry ways so you can see if he slithers past and narrow down where he is.

If you think you know what room it's in, make some bottle traps (cut off end of bottle to make funnel, then tape it back the wrong way around to make it harder for snake to come out. Put pinky in bottle). Turn off the lights and leave the room, go back and check in couple of hours.

I'm sure there's loads more, main thing is not to panic, you'll probably come home one day to find it sat in the middle of the floor looking at you as if to say 'where have YOU been?!?'.
 
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