A few cool pictures / stories attached.

[infernalis]

Last week, Kyle sent me six non feeding ribbons, they needed toads and polliwogs to start, and are now taking fish, while sitting in human hands, all of them!



Carmella our milk snake had frostbite that cost her a fair bit off her tail, she has now shed 4 times since this injury occurred, and I wanted to show how well it has healed up. (The bone was showing!)



Tonight after I got done cleaning out our water snake enclosure (Nerodia sipedon) "Aqua" I thought of putting a ground FX light that I saved from my old "pimped out" dodge neon under the tank. Here is what it turned out like.



The effect is surreal Like a lighted swimming pool.

[drache]

thanks Wayne

what a sweet ribbon pic
I was trying to see whether I could get some small tadpoles as a last resort for my non-eating babies, but the only tadpoles to be gotten from the store are gigantic - bigger than feeder goldfish
what the heck are those
I grew up with little tadpoles, definitely smaller than guppies

that stump looks like the bone's barely covered
good job

the swimming pool shot is so very So Cal
it kind of triggers soundtrack in my head

[Stefan-A]

All I know, is that bullfrog tadpoles are huge.

[Lori P]

OMG, Stefan, that's amazing!

Wayne, thanks for the pics! Poor Carmella... looks like it's doing well tho. And I love the under-lit swimming pool, too cool!! And how great that the ribbons are eating out of your hand... sweet. :-)

[Stefan-A]

According to the wikipedia article, their metamorphosis takes 12-24 months.

[infernalis]

The tadpoles in my feeder tank transform in days.

the most recent ones are spring peeper tads. (tiny!!)

Every morning there is a bunch of micro frogs on the floating log.

Then the reluctant eaters get them.

Or Magma just dives into the tank, greedy little bugger!

[jitami]

Amazing job on that tail, Wayne! Any trick to getting the babies to eat out of your hand? That would be so much fun! Probably takes about the same amount of time as feeding them in a separate container which I'm going to have to start doing soon anyway Pretty cool swimming pool, too

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Amazing job on that tail, Wayne! Any trick to getting the babies to eat out of your hand?

Pick them up slowly and when they are no longer startled by your presence. approach them from underneath and kind of scoop them up, instead of grabbing from above. as long as they are not feeling threatened, they should eat!

[infernalis]

It's called "tease feeding" I hold the fishy by the tail, and coax the head of the fish in front of the snakes face.

It's FASTER than transferring them Just pick them up one at a time, feed and return them.

about half the baby snakes take food for me this way.

Just last night "Lurch" the wee little butlers ate from my hand, it was cool.

[jitami]

Very cool! Shannon so far my only snake has been my WC male who really doesn't tolerate handling well. He will rarely even take food from tongs for me and then if startled will spit it out...sigh... Thankfully he always picks it back up, but I'm really looking forward to raising captive bred babies to be more tolerant of handling!!!