Chris' garters

[guidofatherof5]

I thought about changing the music from the 70's porn music that Autoawesome decided to use. But then I thought I'd leave it so that others could get the same question I did when I first watched it... "Are you watching porn on your phone? While I'm sat next to you?", said the wife.

Now that is funny. I didn't know there was a genre for 70's porn music.

[chris-uk]

Small moment today. Joseph touched his first snake this evening. He came in to the dining room while I was checking Lipwig, and as he was curious and not to boisterous I sat down with him and let him watch Lipwig slithering through my fingers. As they were both behaving I didn't stop Joe when he reached out to touch, he found it hilarious when Lipwig flicked him with his tongue. After a few minutes with Joe touching a few times (and shouting... I think he was happy to find an animal that didn't run and hide when he shouted) it was time to put Lipwig back and for Joseph to wash his hands.
And I think John would have been chuffed to know that one of his snakes is inspiring the next generation.

[guidofatherof5]

I'm sure he's smiling.

[chris-uk]

In other snake news...

Most of my slithery ones are almost all eating well, the exception being my male blackneck he's still only eaten once this year. My female blackneck is the eating well, which is nice, so I'm getting food in her while she's in her eating phase.

Lacci is still my biggest girl, weighing in at 544g. I also found today that her bite radius is about 45mm, that's measuring the bite mark on the back of my forearm this afternoon.

Iodine, my radix girl from Greg last year, is growing nicely and her stripe is a lovely orangey yellow.

My pair of rescued marcianus are still mental. They have the attitude of little vipers, lots of strikes and defensive posturing.

My infernal three are full of character, they aren't the most trusting girls but when I open the viv it's almost like they do a "rock, paper, scissors" to decide who's going to take a look, then they dare each other to see who will go furthest out of the viv and onto my hands. They're great to watch even if they aren't the best to hold.

[guidofatherof5]

Fun update. Thanks Chris.

[gibble888]

Great story and good to know the proper way to measure bite radius

[chris-uk]

[lQUOTE=gibble888;256144]Great story and good to know the proper way to measure bite radius[/QUOTE]

I wouldn't say I measured the bite radius properly ;-) but here's my technique -
Let a snake bite you in a place that's fairly flat so the mouth will be fully opened.
Allow said snake to disengage itself, give it a stern telling off and explain that your arm is not fish.
Measure from the top of the curved bite marks before the red irritation disappears.

Technically I think the bite radius might be from one side of the jaw to the other (ie the width of the head), on this occasion I didn't care much for science.

[guidofatherof5]

The "stern telling off" always works with my snakes.

[chris-uk]

I've just been checking over a few of the slithering ones.

The Infernal Three were their usual selves, curious from a safe distance. When I have one out of the viv the other two don't take long to get their noses pressed up against the glass - they know that they get fed outside the viv.

My year old radix girl is nice and calm, she's a radix after all.

My older male radix is calm as well. He's the first snake that Joseph has touched, Joe loves it when "snakey" flicks his tongue on his arm. He's not bad with the snake, doesn't grab and touches gently.

We've even taught Joseph a new word this evening. He now knows "raa dex". I know someone who'll like that. :-)

[guidofatherof5]

Yes I do and did.