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Vex!!!!

Jillian

Jillian

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I got myself a present yesterday. Of course he trashed his bin and I had to pull him out to clean it, but it gave me the chance to get a quick photo op with this guy.

Named him Vex, and he's 3.5 years old!!! He was the finale to my corn collection. Can't wait until he's settled in more to have him out but we did a 2.5 hour drive with him so he's all alone for at least the next week. I can wait I swear!!

Next year after he's out of quarantine maybe I'll breed him :)
 

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It wouldn't be anything special. I am slowly trying to make my collection a bit more diverse. I am breeding my Fire Motley het Cinder to my Anery Motley unknown hets next year so that I can keep their babies (well some) and then if anything I would breed my Amel to Vex and then keep a couple babies and play with future generations. I am in no hurry to expand my collect but I figured it would keep me busy for the next few and eventually I might expand my morphs.

I am patient. My husband said I couldn't BUY any more snakes until my collection is thinned out, but he never said I couldn't BREED more snakes :)
 
I think "special" is subjective. I think normal and Okeetee corns are still some of the most gorgeous morphs I've seen. Just because a morph is rare doesn't mean it's better. Vex is a nice-looking snake, whatever his morph is!

(Similarly, I think normal ball pythons that go for $50 are still hands down a helluva lot prettier than the ones that go for $1500.)
 
He's a Miami. I fell in love with the morph looking at them on this site and have wanted one for ever. I also wanted a pied side but the chances of getting an affordable one in Canada seems pretty slim. When I saw him I jumped at the chance. They had a female as well but he was the one!
 
Wow- he's gorgeous!! He is of EXCELLENT quality. He really deserves a nice Miami girlfriend...
 
:) I was thinking that too Nanci!!! But I was only able to convince my hubby to the one. Given time (since he said three snakes ago I was done) and the right beauty, I bet I could convince him. Two in one shot would have been too much for him right now! :D
 
It would be a waste of generations of selective breeding if you bred him to anything else. Things he _might_ be heterozygous for would be amel, motley, possibly cinder. Those would be the most likely.
 
Haha I will! Thanks. I adore him and am so happy I got to add him to my ever growing collection!

They are not easy to come by out this way any morph other than Amels or Anerys and Snows. The common corns. Even those ones sell for a fortune!
 
You really need to be more discreet about your collection. My husband occasionally asks 'How many snakes do you have now?'
I always say 'One'.
 
Haha, see I got him started, so now he has one. I just happen to have more. So now he has to catch up! So maybe his next snake should be a pretty little miami!
 
HAHAHAHA so tonight was the first night I took Vex out since I got him. Just for a few minutes to show him to my husband out of his bin. I told him that in a couple years Vex would need a pretty Miami girlfriend. He didn't say no immediately, and when I mentioned that a possible present to him in the future could be a pretty girl!!!

Well then he asked if the babies would look like if we put him to our motley and I told him. He didn't like that nearly as much as having miami babies!!! HE LOVES THEM :D looks like it won't be too hard to twist that rubber arm when the right girlfriend comes along. YAY happy dance for Vex!
 
Beautiful snake!!! Ok, so I'm "dumb" and can't figure out how to post a new message, so I'll post it here...I'm sorry if this isn't the place to post new questions...but I am terribly nervous...I have a 15 month old female corn snake, Orville...up until about 2 weeks ago, she was "normal" in terms of being active during the night, and sleeping during the day. However, now she is Active ALL day long...she seems "unsettled", although she's eating normally. Is something wrong with her??? I was wondering if it might be "breeding" behavior since it's May...but there aren't any other snakes around, and she's only 15 months old...is something wrong with her or is this normal? She didn't act this way last Spring, but she was a baby. I don't know what to do for her. :(
She also rattled her tail at me when I went to pick her up the other day to put her in her other cage to feed her...she ate normally though. She just seems unsettled and VERY active. Her temps/humidity are all normal. Please help! I'm worried about her!!!!
 
Some times it hard to figure it out. No worries about posting here. Just so you know if you click on to the category ie breeding at the top of the page on that topic is start a new thread link. Then you can create your own. :)

To alleviate your worries it does sound normal. She might be going into a shed, it could be the warm weather, maybe she is getting breeding fever. As she gets older she may do it more and more and eventually lay eggs. Kinda like chickens. They can lay eggs even without a male but those eggs are duds. I wouldn't think that she would lay eggs just yet being so young but snakes generally don't follow our rules.

You can always put a lay box in with her if you're really concerned. That's just a box with some damp substrate in it (not soaked but damp so when you wring it out there is no droplets coming off it.) She may go in there and chill out for a bit and eventually lay. There is no harm in the box, if nothing else it might just make her next shed that much easier to come off.

Don't feel dumb about not being sure. The only way to find things out is to ask questions!!! The people on this forum are pretty awesome and answer things very readily.
 
Thank you Jillian!

Thank you so much for your response...I feel a little better since you said it's probably normal for her. Today she is VERY unsettled again. You mentioned adding a lay box for her. I have a "cave" she can go into at the warm end, and a "hide box" (which is really a shed box but she seems to spend most of her time curled up in it...until recently, when she's almost always unsettled and slithering around)...is that the same thing? I do have some aspen bedding in her hide box, but it's not damp...should I just dampen that or does she need a new place? She should be shedding pretty soon because it's been about 7 weeks since her last shed...last night I took her out, but she was SO agitated, she wanted nothing but to get away. :( I tried soaking her in some warm water in case she was about to shed, but she didn't want anything to do with it so I put her back. I'm so worried about her...thanks for telling me she might lay eggs even if she hasn't been with a boy snake! :) I once had a praying mantis as a pet (don't ask...she was going to die outside because winter was approaching so I took her inside and kept her as a pet for a few months)...and she laid an egg sac too! It surprised me, but apparently they also lay egg sacs without a male's influence. :) I'll keep you posted...thanks again for your response. She's my first snake, and I adore her, and just want everything to be ok for her. :)
 
By the way Jillian, your corn snake is beautiful! :) If I can figure out how to attach a photo, I'll show you Orville. :) Also, I'm guessing she's 15 months...I got her in March of 2013 but she was tiny when I got her...she's now about 38 inches long. :)
 
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