Violet (just here for updates, future questions, and of course pictures!)

[guidofatherof5]

Looks like a good meal for a hungry snake.

[gordonthegarter]

This last thing of crawlers I bought have had some of the FATTEST crawlers I have ever seen and boy does she love the meaty ones!

[guidofatherof5]

This last thing of crawlers I bought have had some of the FATTEST crawlers I have ever seen and boy does she love the meaty ones!

Now that's funny.
The shipment of worms I got in today was full of very large crawlers. Made my big garters very happy.

[Foxrun402]

do you buy dmf bait co ones from walmart?? I just got some on the 1st and they are huge now and yes they are fast and put up a fight for a worm LOL

[guidofatherof5]

I buy wholesale from DMF. They only sell to businesses so with my license from the State of Iowa I qualify.
I buy 500 at a time. I go through 1000 night crawlers a month, couldn't afford to buy them from Walmart anymore. I used to catch them from my backyard but my back tells me I can't do that anymore.

[Foxrun402]

Whoa! 1k a month! That must be a ton of work, but I bet it is all enjoyable! Since DMF got their new packaging on the store bought ones, the actual nightcrawlers themselves seemed to have gotten bigger too! At first when I got Suzi home they weren't that big, but now they are beefy and feisty! Makes feeding then with tongs a lot more fun!

[gordonthegarter]

So DMF is just producing some beefy worms this season no complaints from the snake. Garter approved beefy worms!

That is A LOT of crawlers a month! You must be a pro at chopping up worms haha

It's gonna be sad. Leaving Thursday for vacation for 5 days. Gonna miss my reptilian friends (and birds and cats and dogs too of course!) Giving Vi a nice feast tomorrow and Iggy gets a big fresh salad and a big bowl of iguana "croutons" for when we're gone. I know they'll be fine, but I'm gonna miss their faces.

[gordonthegarter]

Wow I haven't been on here in a while!

Violet is as happy as ever. Pigs out on her crawlers like a champ and we upgraded to a 20L tank and she LOVES it! She is out and about in there so much more now! She also gets excited when she sees me now and comes right to the side of the cage

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I have also gotten into leopard geckos and have an amazing blizzard named Zoran (Zorro for short) and my newest, a tiny mack snow tremper hatchling who will be named Dylan if a boy but no female named decided yet.

sleeeeeeeep.jpgDylan likes sleeping in weird positions and running to the side of the cage to stare at me
zorro before and after.jpg The left is Zorro the day I got him, and the right is him now. He's gotten chubby he's my cuddly baby

Oh! And went to visit my brother and nephews while they were fishing and there was the PERFECT place for snakes to hide. Seeing as the 3 year old loves snakes, I decided to catch one for him to see. Searched everywhere and didn't find one, then my mom takes one step next to me to take pictures of flowers and scares one away! So in search of the snake she scared away (which by how she described it, it was a northern water snake) came up with nothing. Just as I was about to quit looking I saw something moving in a hole next to me and look down and saw this pretty girl

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She was deep in shed and bit my thumb when i first picked her up, but calmed down very quickly and the boys loved seeing her! Took her home to see her finish her shed and glad I did because she had stuck shed all over her but BOY IS SHE A PRETTY ONE!!! Such a dark brown color! My mom named her Ivy and since she shed yesterday I offered her some mealies after Vi ate and she eats like it's her job! I'll have to get better pictures of her now that she shed. I like to think I have 2 super pretty eastern girls. I even caught her and Vi cuddling under the pool today and Ivy giving me that "feed me" look Vi gives me on feeding day (which is another reason I fed her today)

[guidofatherof5]

Yes, they are super pretty Eastern girls.

[Mommy2many]

Very nice snake!