Marnie's Snakes

[mikem]

Snake growth always catches me off guard. I feed and feed, week after week. One day they're the same size they've always been, then overnight they have a growth spurt!

[PINJOHN]

Snake growth always catches me off guard. I feed and feed, week after week. One day they're the same size they've always been, then overnight they have a growth spurt!

My experience is identical with both yours and Marnies one day they are a certain size and the day following they have jumped several sizes

does my bum look big in this

[EasternGirl]

I have no idea what is going on with Cee Cee and Seeley...must be the spring weather we have been having around here. They are both extremely restless and last night I had to remove Seeley from Cee Cee's enclosure because of snakie shananigans again. They haven't been canoodling for a while...so I have let Seeley stay in with Cee Cee...they really like being together. Steve is going to send me same sex roomies for them in the spring. But last night...Seeley decided he was in the mood...jeez! He wouldn't leave poor Cee Cee alone. It was like watching a snake roller coaster. He kept twisting himself around her and riding on her back everywhere she went....she, on the other hand, was not having it...she was going all over the tank trying to get him off of her...she kept violently flipping him off...he would fly across the tank...lol. It was quite entertaining. They were destroying the set-up of course...and I had just cleaned the tank. Then she starting looking at me with this desperate look...like "Would you please get this flippin guy off of me?". And I had enough too...I was like..."Look, no snakie babies!"...If she isn't gravid already. So, I took him out and put him in another tank. She is still crazy restless today though. She is trying her hardest to find a way to escape from her enclosure...I have no idea what is going on with them. I'm going to have to go to the pet store and try to find a used tank to put Seeley in until he knocks it off because the tank he is in now is going to be used for Possum. Snake drama!

[mikem]

ah, love is in the air <3

she enjoys the attention. that's why she's cruising the cage looking for seeley. have you seen garter breeding balls? all the males try desperately to mate with the big female, but she usually looks totally uninterested, lol!

[PINJOHN]

ah, love is in the air <3

she enjoys the attention. that's why she's cruising the cage looking for seeley. have you seen garter breeding balls? all the males try desperately to mate with the big female, but she usually looks totally uninterested, lol!

i have learned all about the garters hemipenes.... but balls wow they are not so far from us men after all

[mikem]

ya know, as i was typing that, i thought someone would say something about the balls, lol

[kibakiba]

That's how snakey was for a while... He seems to have calmed down now... It is technically close to breeding time for them.

[EasternGirl]

Yeah...I figured it was that time of year. I'm going to have to get out and get another tank for him...since the new snake is coming. I don't think I'm going to be able to let him stay in with Cee Cee a lot this spring. I have no idea where I am going to put another tank...I am running out of room for all these animals!

[EasternGirl]

I have to tell you guys...the most incredible thing has happened...Cee Cee has gone through the most amazing transformation over just the last week alone...she has suddenly bonded with me to such a degree...it's just incredible. She had been making a little progress for a while...she would come out to see me if I taped on the glass of the tank...look around for me...come over to the glass and put her face up to the glass to look at me. But usually if I put my hand in the tank, she would strike at me. Then suddenly, she started allowing me to pet her...coming over to my hand in the tank more. But now all of the sudden over the past several days...she comes over to the doors of her tank now when she sees me and puts her face up to tell me she wants out...I open the tank and she comes out to me and slithers right into my hand...and then out of the tank and into my lap! She climbs all over my hands when I put them in the tank...she looks for me all the time and puts her face up to see me when I walk by. Seeley sees this and he sees it's okay to trust me and he comes over to my hand when I put it in the tank now too! He sees the attention Cee Cee is getting and he wants some. He lets me pet him and pick him up. I'm so excited...I feel like a little kid on Christmas morning. And to top it all off...Hermes ate his food with repcal powder on it tonight...life is good.

[katach]

It's a good night all around!