Hydra

[EasternGirl]

Yeah...Nate was just going to go get the calcimize anyway. We can get that here. No D3 or multivitamins in the water for us yanks though.

[aquamentus_11]

she just did something i've never seen before. i dropped a nightcrawler into the foliage and just let it go. it dropped to the ground then started trying to burrow. Hydra watched this happen, but then did this move where te front half of her body sort of arched up and writhed back and she opened her jaws and stretched both mandibles. then she went back to watching. is that a yawn? it was incredibly dramatic

[guidofatherof5]

Sounds like a stretch and yawn.

[aquamentus_11]

pretty impressive. it looked like she was winding up for a strike that would've just pulped that worm on impact.

[aquamentus_11]

she was looking HUGE yesterday afternoon. looked like a bulge, but if she did eat any of the food i left, it was another inch of worm and not enough to make her this big. she looks great though and i actually saw her drink: she hung down from the branch overhanging her water bowl and sucked it down. she was cruising around all afternoon. it was storming here, so as a break i went out and collected some worms. she went for one right away until she realized that she was being cooperative and stopped in her tracks. i dropped the worm on top of her basking rock, but she only watched it. it finally made its way between the glass and her rock. i couldn't move her rock to get at it because it was more fun to try with my hemostats. she actually rested her chin on the edge of the rock and watched me try to get the worm out of that crevice: may hand and hemostats were less than a centimeter away from her face and she just looked on! she even got a little closer after awhile. i couldn't believe it, it was so cool. first observable yawn and drink in one day plus a possible feeding and bonding sesh? where is my snake....

[EasternGirl]

That is awesome Nate. Just be careful not to get any substrate on the worms if you are letting them drop into the tank. If she is still pretty small, that half a worm you gave her the other day could give her a bit of a bulge. From what I remember, she isn't even as big as Hermes yet...a half a worm would give him a bulge..definitely.

[aquamentus_11]

well last i measured, she was 12-13", .3 oz.

[EasternGirl]

Right...okay...she is about the same as Hermes...he would have a bulge after half a worm.

[aquamentus_11]

oh ok that's awesome

[aquamentus_11]

just tried to feed her again with a worm. she struck at it twice, but didn't latch on. then she ran away and hid under her rock. i tried to tease her out, but finally just left the worm on a lid for her. she circled it 3 times, getting her face right up next to each piece and smelling, even pushing the pieces around, but she wouldn't eat them. she went back to them twice. i don't understand her: maybe she's not hungry but just reacted to the motion?