Cuddles!

[EasternGirl]

That's interesting to know...I did not know that about snakes. I don't see any marks like that on any of my snakes though.

[katach]

It goes away as they get older.

[GarterGuy17]

Yea I looked it up yesterday the said umbilical scar , so yea belly button

[acovert]

Awesome xD My snake has a belly button!

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gene...llybutton.html

[acovert]

Some pictures of my baby today, wandering around after taking a worm yesterday. No progress with the fish, but I''ll be trying another worm-fish mixture tomorrow or Tuesday! I really want to get him on a diet that isn't worms. Fish...pinkies...I don't care. I feel like the worms aren't nutritious enough and I don't have supplements yet.
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This picture's from a couple of days ago. I thought it was a cute pose.
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[EasternGirl]

He is really a beautiful little guy, Ashley! Love that last pose! I really like your enclosure too. But I did want to ask if your wood is from outside...is it heat treated? If you bring wood in from outside, you have to heat treat it...or you can end up with mites...mites are a nightmare. Very hard to get rid of. Anything that you bring in from outside has to be treated to prevent mites as far as I know. You may want to get rid of anything you brought in from outside and go to the dollar store and get some fake plants and make some hides out of cardboard...make a waterdish out of a plastic lid..if you can't afford to buy one. And remove the branches from the water dish...you don't want to have anything in the water he is drinking. Not trying to be critical...just want your snake to be safe .

[kibakiba]

I love it when they do the grass/stick pose. It's so darn cute!

[EasternGirl]

I know! He looks like he is mimicking the grass...

[acovert]

The sticks and the rock were all heat treated. The water dish is store bought. Everything else was bought at a pet store.
On the plus side, the rock and the sticks came from an area that was extremely cold (they were also laying in the snow), which (from what I've been told by people in Montana) means that very few insects/bugs should have been on it because they can't survive such extreme cold (unless it's a pine beetle - but those live in live trees, not sticks!).
I treated them multiple times when I did thorough cleaning of the tank and when I got home. Pretty sure they're safe.

I love the pose. I've caught him doing it a few times.
Once he stretched his body all the way up the side of the tank until he could reach the humidity and temperature gauges.