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WIR: June 1st - June 7th 2008

toyah

toyah

Snakes in designer genes
Two new members this week.

ashleigh_k is having a bit of a problem with her new snow corn regurging - thankfully she's in the right place for help and support.
R B Customs has a new baby corn called Coby.


Threads of interest ...

Here's my pick of the threads that caused brain activity or amusement to me this week.
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68439 what do you keep in your snake box
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68374 - checkout routine for new snakes
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68344 - disinfecting protocol
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68469 - breeding woes
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68483 - average clutch size
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68241 - probing video
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68396 - future of ownership
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68293 - oh no I have eggs
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68402 - can they get stuck (included for bitsy's post)



Matches

This is just showing off, RobStevens - Pied sided x stripe blood pairing for a second clutch.

dr73 has a clutch from an amel motley to an unknown male.

And eggs for Jrgh17 - congratulations!

A family portrait from paranoika3 - mom, dad, and eggs!

Lucky thirteen for ForkedTung, with Daisy laying thirteen great eggs

Never give up on eggs. Look at the first photos in bitsy's thread on unexpected eggs - then look at her fabulous update from this week!

The_evil has eighteen eggs from a wonderful butter motley x butter stripe pairing.

Drewby07 has seven Okeetee eggs.

Walter Smith has some nice eggs from a pied-sided blood x lav blood het hypo pairing.


Hatches!

Drizzt80 has a wonderful clutch of normals and bloodredds - such a shame he didn't get the lav blood baby he's been waiting for, but congrats on the gorgeous babies you did get.

Susielea has some funky patterned babies from a recent clutch.

bekers71 better have some big boxes ready for the beast babies.

Congratulations to Iguanagirl8662 on her first two amels pipping

ruggerboi posted some pictures of his freshly shed babies. Gorgeous snakes, gorgeous photos.

First clutch of the year for Drizzt80 - blizzards and charcoals.



Photos

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J&SReptiles posted a picture of his new mystery baby.

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MrsInsaneOne posted this wonderful photo of her rescue snow girl.

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zeewhiz is absolutely our guy, friend, and my favourite of his corns has to be this amazing ghost stripe girl

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Twins for Carol from her whiteout project clutch

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berkers71 shows off a high-white blizzard - go look at the thread to see some more stunning examples of this cultivar.

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Excellent example of a pewter from Servia Senkalora


Thread of the week

Digestion works. It's nice to see a thread get resolved so quickly and with so few arguments. Of course, who could argue with the innate truth and simplicity of the (hopefully rhetorical) question "If you eat a sandwich, do you have a sandwich sized poop?"


Quote of the week

Joejr14:
I think there should be some rule about having 'man boob' in your avatar.



Quoted Quote of the week

It's not KJUN's quote, but he quoted it at us, and I am quoting it at you:

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)


Lizard in military outfit of the week

I am hoping this will become a regular section of the WIR. Contributions welcome.

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Be afraid. Be very afraid


And that rounds it up for me. As most of you should be aware (if my psychic skills are working correctly), I did telepathically send this out yesterday during the forum downtime. I hope you enjoy this look at the written copy too though ;)
 
Good WIR, Toyah....BUT...
Please don't start dressing up your lizards to get pics....Where will it end, and some may think it's exploitation and cruel.....This is a reptile forum not a freak show...Just my opinion....
 
Great WIR Toyah, thank you! :)

There are a few threads there that I managed to miss for some reason or other, some of them were quite comical and brought a smile or a giggle, so thank you again!

Best wishes,
 
Great job Toyah! I am really needing the W.I.R.'s lately. Work has been crazy and there just isn't enough time in a day. Thanks for keeping me up to date this week. A++++++++
Jay :cool:
 
snakewispera snr said:
Good WIR, Toyah....BUT...
Please don't start dressing up your lizards to get pics....Where will it end, and some may think it's exploitation and cruel.....This is a reptile forum not a freak show...Just my opinion....
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One small note: the "lizard in military outfit" photo belongs to Crackerhead and was part of a thread that she posted about her own animals, and how she dressed up Ozzie the bearded dragon for Halloween...it was just for fun, not for exploitation at all. :) I just adore the photo! Who could possibly resist a face like that?! :cheers:
 
Cegninedorf said:
One small note: the "lizard in military outfit" photo belongs to Crackerhead and was part of a thread that she posted about her own animals, and how she dressed up Ozzie the bearded dragon for Halloween...it was just for fun, not for exploitation at all. :) I just adore the photo! Who could possibly resist a face like that?! :cheers:
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I realised that, and I thought it was really funny I even commented on it. But to make it a regular feature is pushing it a bit. And with newbs and kids on here how far will it go....Once was funny more than once and (in my opinion) it's getting on dodgy ground...
 
Thank you guys :) I wasn't around most of last week and had to do this in one long session yesterday, it took forever! But I'm glad people enjoyed reading it.

J&SReptiles said:
Great WIR, but...
I'm a girl, not a boy! :wavey:
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Oops ... my bad. Sorry about that!

snakewispera snr said:
I realised that, and I thought it was really funny I even commented on it. But to make it a regular feature is pushing it a bit. And with newbs and kids on here how far will it go....Once was funny more than once and (in my opinion) it's getting on dodgy ground...
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I don't really think it'll be a regular slot - if I wanted it to be a regular part of it then I'd have asked for something a bit more general, like "pets in fancy dress". But I think lizards in military gear is niche enough to be one of those once-in-a-lifetime events we never see again ;-)

Saying that, I'm of the opinion that there are much worse things we can do to animals than make them wear a hat once in a while for a photo...
 
Haha I like that the quote regarding man boob made it into the WIR.
I've since fixed the offending picture in question :rofl:

Great WIR Toyah!
 
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