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Snakes smell like...

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tschofie

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Hey guys,

Do cornsnakes smell a little like lilacs to anyone else? Err, I mean, not the tank, especially not when it's dirty, just the snakes themselves. A little ammonia, and just under that... lilacs. Maybe it's because it is getting to be spring, but there are no lilacs anywhere in the neighborhood and my windows are closed.

Nah, I'm probably just crazy. What do your snakes smell like?

-TS


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well ..

Well my cornsnake dosen't smell like anything but the wild ones do. When me and my friends go looking for snakes in the fields I find they do have this kind o smell but I would describe it as flowers more like.. I dunno but it does stand out. Guess your not the olny one:D
 
I suppose most smell like the substrate they have in their tank. Mine smells like the Bounty paper towels I use and my friends snake whom I am babysitting at the moment smells like nice fresh aspen.
I guess they would smell like their poop if they are dirty...Good think I keep mine clean. :)
 
Ok, now I'm curious. I have been smelling my snakes ever since I first got them (hey, I like to do it, I guess I don't get out much) and can't smell absolutely anything on them. I've sniffed corns, boas (constrictor and rainbow) and ball pythons with no results. I know the smell of mice (the skin and fur which is very different from their urine), cats, canaries, dogs, horses, cows, guinea pigs, geese, ducks, chickens, and every creature I've ever laid hands on except my tarantula, whose urticating bristles I don't care to inhale. But I don't know the smell of snakes :(
 
I find

I find olny wild snakes carry a sent? Try catching a wild one and smell try not to get bite on the nose my cousin found out the hard way.
 
Mine doesn't have that much smell to it. But I know for sure that their tanks does.....especially when it poops....hahaha
that smells really bad!!!!!
 
Well that's got my curiousity going, I will have to find out later, just fed them last night so don't want to disturb them. Going to get some queer look's if anyone come's in and see's me sniffing snake's though.:D
 
The great outdoors

I think Nicky might be right... I took S&H out to play in the grass, and a day or two afterwards the flower smell was strong enough I could smell it on my hands, after handling. I wonder if it is exposure to a little sunlight that does it? Or, heck, maybe it's just that the snakies ran and hid in the magnolia tree. Oh well. Thanks very much!

Cheers,
TS
 
Mine smell like aspen. I'm glad neither my wife nore my kids have ever seen me trying to determine that, however. I'm not sure I could explain the deep inhalations of a corn snake's scent as a purely scientific experiment of some type for this board!

Later -- Darin
 
Have not noticed that my sinaloan or rat smell like anything in particular but the indigo I used to have smelled like...fabric softener sheets I guess. It was a sweetish smell, not sure what lilacs smell like exactly. Smell was stronger after a shed as I remember. That may be wrong, but I do recall the smell fluctuating in intensity. It was a pretty large snake, and that smell dominated my room in highschool. Weird. I recall I used to sprinkle baking soda in the bottom of his box under the substrate. I used crushed corn cob back then. (wonder if that was the smell? I dont remember smelling that by itself from the bag. Does anyone else use corn cob? Does it have an odor?
 
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