Marnie's Snakes

[Invisible Snake]

Also...any advice about warming up the snakes in plastic tubs now that it is getting cold?

You can use a heat pad if you have 1.

For the rescues you have found you can try bringing them back to 100% health and then offer them "free to good homes" or you can check with any local animal rescues to see if they take in snakes.

[EasternGirl]

I just saw that post Invis.Snake. How do you insulate them? I do know that they make small UTHs for plastic containers. Maybe I will get a few of them.

[EasternGirl]

Well, the reason I want to start a snake rescue is because the closest rescue that takes snakes is an hour and a half drive from here in the middle of the state. I do know that rescues relocate too...so it wouldn't be any different than me relocating them. I have mentioned on this thread a couple of times that I am looking for someone to take them. Maybe I will post in the adoption thread.

[EasternGirl]

Funny feeding story about the girls: I was feeding the babies and the girls, of course, smelled the worms. They started going crazy. I was going to wait to feed them today. I saw that they had gotten some aspen in their water dish and went in to get it out. They both went nuts and started attacking my fingers! Sadie slithered up into the water dish as I was picking it up and dove in to look for food and started trying to eat my thumb...just as Cee Cee was slithering up my arm going for my hand! Crazy females! I ended up feeding them to calm them down.

[ProXimuS]

Sadie and Cee Cee are a funny team

[ConcinusMan]

I just saw that post Invis.Snake. How do you insulate them? I do know that they make small UTHs for plastic containers. Maybe I will get a few of them.

Too damn hot. I use these. Just the right amount of heat. Also cheaper and larger than reptile UTH's. I highly recommend these. You can heat more than one tub. Use a long tub such as a plastic shoe box available at dollar tree. Use a hot metal object to melt plenty of ventilation holes and only put about 1/4 of one end of the tub on the heat pad. Be very careful and set it up and monitor the temperature before putting snakes in it. Also, it only needs to be on about 10 hours a day. Turn it off at night unless temperature regularly falls below 60 at night.

This heat pad: Amazon.com: Growers Supply Company GSHM 9-by-19-1/2-Inch Small Seedling Heat Mat: Patio, Lawn & Garden

[EasternGirl]

You're saying that the small UTHs made for plastic containers are too hot? Okay...I will look into getting some of the ones you recommended.

I was worried about little Athena...because she was hiding a lot and not very active...I thought for sure I would find her dead yesterday as I dug through the substrate to look for her...but instead I found a very blue eyed little girl. She is just getting ready to shed. Seeley just shed...a perfect shed as always. That boy has never once had an imperfect shed, even with his stub tail. Little Joe shed too. I think Ceecers is gearing up for a shed next.

It's funny because Cee Cee has gotten more and more irritated with me over this whole mite business. All the soaking and moving around and being sprayed down with the Mite Off has gotten her quite ticked at me. But Sadie seems to understand that I am helping her and it seems to be building trust with us...she hasn't tried to bite me in a while.

The new little guy, Snapper, isn't trying to bite me anymore. I suspect that he and Peanut are siblings...same size, both found in my basement around the same time. They love to cuddle together under a hide I put in their tub. They both seem very healthy and inquisitive. I want to find Snapper a home and keep Peanut and hopefully put him in with Seeley and Sammy when he gets just a bit bigger and I'm sure he is healthy. But I feel bad separating them. If someone wants to take both of them...I would consider letting them both go to a good home. I think I might have to keep little Athena though...she has become my little baby girl.

[kueluck]

“I think I might have to keep little Athena tough...she has become my little baby girl” You better not let Cee Cee hear you say that!! You're just ASKIN' to get bit.

[EasternGirl]

Rofl....Cee Cee and I are having mother/daughter issues right now. She has become an insolent teenager. I tried to pet her last night and she went to bite me again. I don't know what her deal is.

[chris-uk]

Rofl....Cee Cee and I are having mother/daughter issues right now. She has become an insolent teenager. I tried to pet her last night and she went to bite me again. I don't know what her deal is.

I wish I had a bitey snake. Only two of mine have even tried, and that was during feeding when my finger probably had a lingering fishy smell.