Cee Cee and Selena...The Eastern Girls

[EasternGirl]

I just put a UTH on Cee Cee and Selena's tank...figured I would try it out on them...I ordered another one that is coming for the albino...just have to be careful and keep a close eye on them right now as my thermostats haven't arrived yet. Cee Cee and Selena have decided they are in snake heaven...they have been lounging around over top of the heat mat since I turned it on...

[EasternGirl]

Just a funny little thing...my son Julian actually named our snakes...when we first found Selena, we thought she was a male and he named her Bieber because he loves Justin Bieber...then when we found out she was female, we changed her name to Selena, after Selena Gomez...Justin Bieber's girlfriend...lol. We actually call her "Biebs" as a nickname a lot. He also named Cee Cee...and I love the name. Today he saw me writing a post about her and he informed me that I am spelling her name incorrectly....lol...that it is spelled "CC"...lol

[katach]

Cute. How old is he?

[EasternGirl]

Nine. He won't hold the snakes yet though...still working on that!

[katach]

That is a fun age. Old enough to hold a good conversation with but not too old you start getting pre-teen attitude.

Bill's kids love holding the snakes. They only get to hold Maria and Willow though the rest are a little more difficult to hold, the baby is still too small too.

[EasternGirl]

He is at a really fun age...because we can hang out and do fun stuff together and I don't have to watch him every single second like when he was a toddler...I don't know though, he gets the pre-teen attitude a little already.... A few years back, before I knew anything about garters, we were having our basement cleaned out and there were quite a few down there (what a find I would have thought today!) anyway...I was trying to move the snakes outside but really didn't know how to handle them properly...and made one big mama snake pretty defensive and she struck at me a few times before I could get her outside and Julian saw this and it scared him I think. I always tell him that snakes will only strike if they are scared and defending themselves and that they are just protecting themselves...and he knows that now...but he holds onto things for a long time! I think that he remembers that and is afraid of getting bit. He knows that Cee Cee and Selena don't bite me but he remembers that incident too and now I have a difficult time getting him to not fear snakes unfortunately.

Here are the girls enjoying their new heat pad:

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[katach]

Yeah they remember things for a long time.
That pic is great!

[EasternGirl]

I fed the girls again tonight. Separately! I ordered the calcium and vitamin D supplement that some of you guys had recommended and dusted some pinkies with it. Cee Cee the piggers of course gobbled up two pinkies right away without even taking time to notice that there was anything different about the food...and immediately looked for more. Selena, my picky girl, did her normal dance around the food, as I call it...I'm really going to have to video her feeding ritual the next time she eats...she slithers all around the tank...and around the dish...weaves in and out of her little bushes like she's stalking her food...pops out at it...sticks her tongue out at it a couple of times, then darts back into the bushes, goes back around the dish...pops her head in and out of the dish a few times...and then she usually starts eating. But this time, she was having nothing to do with it! She kept sticking her little tongue at the food and looking at it like..."something isn't right". She wasn't having anything to do with the vitamin supplement... So, of course piggers Cee Cee finished the food. Selena will just have to wait til the next feeding! Lol...

[katach]

If they are eating pinkies there really isn't a strong demand for the use of the supplement powder. Pinkies are pretty nutritionally complete. If you were feeding just fish and worms they would definitely need it though.

[EasternGirl]

Right....well, I bought it because up until recently all they were eating was fish and occasionally worms. And interestingly, they weren't eating very much and very often. Then all of the sudden last week they decided they were suddenly very hungry and that they liked pinkies again! It was odd! I went ahead and put the supplement on because it had been months that they had been eating primarily fish with the occasional worm...so I figured I better start getting some vitamins in them. Of course, now, I can get them to eat a more balanced diet....but I never know with these girls when they will start refusing to eat the pinkies or go off food all together for a while. In fact, Selena didn't eat much at all last feeding and she didn't eat anything tonight.