Okay, so I have been extremely busy the past few moths but I have a spare second (at 2 in the fricken morning) to give you guys a general update on my animals. A few of you may know that I was expecting babies from this FAT snake:
The eyelash viper
I was very excited and was expecting them sooner than later so I removed her from the vivarium set up and placed her into a more barren birthing tank so that I could get a good look at all the little thorns when they popped out of her and not have to go digging through thick vines to find them all and risk a bite. Unfortunately as many of you may have experienced before- snakes LOVE to mess up a new clean cage so not one hour after I put her in the new tank she drops the BIGGEST poop I have ever seen come out of something that small. So she is still pleasantly plump and possible gravid but I am not as sure as I was before and it may be a month or so before anything happens. I am also still waiting to hear back on if my male bred while out on his dates with his sexy leucistic, peach, and gold eyelash vipers (he is on a breeding loan right now).
The cobras are now reaching three feet and will be moved into their new enclosures as soon as I can bring them up to FWC's standards for venomous. All I need to do is add another layer of screening and make some labels but it is easier said than done. They are currently feeding on small rats- I just switched them over from mice this week.
The beaded lizard is also doing well and growing at an alarming rate. He has not made much progress as far as taming goes but he has not regressed any and I admit to not working with him to the extent that I should so for now I am still sporting the Hexarmor gloves while handling him. He is also eating small rats but is living mostly on quail eggs that my step mother gives me from her pet quails- don't ask. Anyways, my neighbor was over and took some shots of the animals so I am pulling these from her facebook to share with you guys. Enjoy!
Here is Darwin gulfing down his meal.
JD playing tag with his buddy the male cobra...
The female and her food lump
My pine snake (romeo) eating a chick- I got a bag of a hundred feeder chicks for free so I am using those currently.
As usual, any comments or questions are welcome but do excuse me if I do not get back to you right away because I am heading out on vacation to Jekyll Island for a week followed immediately by the Grand Canyon where I will be rafting the entire Colorado River and camping along the shores for 2 weeks so I will have limited contact for the next three or so weeks.
The eyelash viper
I was very excited and was expecting them sooner than later so I removed her from the vivarium set up and placed her into a more barren birthing tank so that I could get a good look at all the little thorns when they popped out of her and not have to go digging through thick vines to find them all and risk a bite. Unfortunately as many of you may have experienced before- snakes LOVE to mess up a new clean cage so not one hour after I put her in the new tank she drops the BIGGEST poop I have ever seen come out of something that small. So she is still pleasantly plump and possible gravid but I am not as sure as I was before and it may be a month or so before anything happens. I am also still waiting to hear back on if my male bred while out on his dates with his sexy leucistic, peach, and gold eyelash vipers (he is on a breeding loan right now).
The cobras are now reaching three feet and will be moved into their new enclosures as soon as I can bring them up to FWC's standards for venomous. All I need to do is add another layer of screening and make some labels but it is easier said than done. They are currently feeding on small rats- I just switched them over from mice this week.
The beaded lizard is also doing well and growing at an alarming rate. He has not made much progress as far as taming goes but he has not regressed any and I admit to not working with him to the extent that I should so for now I am still sporting the Hexarmor gloves while handling him. He is also eating small rats but is living mostly on quail eggs that my step mother gives me from her pet quails- don't ask. Anyways, my neighbor was over and took some shots of the animals so I am pulling these from her facebook to share with you guys. Enjoy!
Here is Darwin gulfing down his meal.
JD playing tag with his buddy the male cobra...
The female and her food lump
My pine snake (romeo) eating a chick- I got a bag of a hundred feeder chicks for free so I am using those currently.
As usual, any comments or questions are welcome but do excuse me if I do not get back to you right away because I am heading out on vacation to Jekyll Island for a week followed immediately by the Grand Canyon where I will be rafting the entire Colorado River and camping along the shores for 2 weeks so I will have limited contact for the next three or so weeks.
