Ranch Concinnus'

[guidofatherof5]

Hungry is as hungry does. The smell of pinkies drive these girl crazy.

[ConcinusMan]

So it's true. Even the most humble snake keepers are sadists whether they're aware of it or not.

That's sick Steve. Just sick!

With a little adjustment to my feeding methods and working with them for a while I've managed to completely avoid incidents like this the past few years. Used to be routine though. Having antiseptic wipes ready at each feeding is now a thing of the past.

[ConcinusMan]

No food weight 213g.

213 holy crud. Their mom (who is over 3.5 feet and heavy-bodied) weighed just 190 grams when not gravid. I think last time she got up to 225 but she only had 7 big babies and a few slugs.

You'll know if she's close they tend to have an off-schedule shed in the last 30 days of gestation and/or suddenly stop eating 1-3 weeks prior to giving birth.

If she bred with a sibling or same locality don't be surprised if you get a few "fitchi phase" or laterally striped ones in the litter (which look very much like fitchii) in addition to this phenotype. Population-wise and even within same litters they are dimorphic and the lateral striped adults tend to have a nice blue-green color to the lateral stripes.

[Foxrun402]

Dang Steve.... got yah pretty good.. back of the jaw even lol... Maybe she was thinking "ooooomg a night-crawler that smells like a pinky!"

[guidofatherof5]

You can see how she was clamping down, what you can't see was her body wrapped around a rock. She was pulling very hard.
I had to push my hand further into her mouth to get the teeth released. She's a good girl. They are wonderful to visit with but when pinkies are involved they turn savage.

[guidofatherof5]

She's been moved to a birthing enclosure and isn't happy about it.

[chris-uk]

Nice bite. The last one I picked up was from a 40g infernalis (not one to boast about), but the one before that was from Laccrimosa at somewhere between 105-110cm and around 380g... she's a big girl (I think she's a bit overweight, which comes from her eating everything and some of my others eating badly over the winter, meaning there were lots of leftovers... which now go in the bin instead of Lacci).

Look forward to seeing babies from your girl soon.

[Selkielass]

I think its the time of year.
Abby has started going food crazy. Christmas is soon to be moved to new quarters as Abby tossed him against the glass and bit him on the nose over food. Pregnant gals don't share apparently.

[guidofatherof5]

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

[Invisible Snake]

Preggers! Congrats Steve!