So what happens when you sell a snake, agree on an amount, a date to ship, receive payment, and then the stupid thing dies on you? I'll tell all about my experience with it and how much it sucked this week!! So what happens when the unspeakable happens, and now you have their money and … Continue reading Death and selling
Keeping snakes part 3
These temperature recommendations are specific to carpet pythons tho you can adapt them to any number of species! This is prolly the most common way of keeping a moderate amount of snakes, basically this where you've upgraded and now have a room dedicated to your animals!! Your still using heated enclosures but you have a … Continue reading Keeping snakes part 3
Keeping snakes part 2
These temperature recommendations are specific to carpet pythons tho you can adapt them to any number of speciesThere are so many considerations to think about when deciding how you keep your snakes. Are you just going to have 1 or 2, or many. Are you willing to dedicate a room, or are just going to … Continue reading Keeping snakes part 2
Keeping carpets part 1
These recommendations are for carpet pythons, although you can adapt them to any number of snake species. CAGE SIZE! The all important question! I'll go into different materials and specific uses for each in the different heating sections, but this is specifically for cage size only. Hatchling, now for hatchlings, if you purchased your hatchling, … Continue reading Keeping carpets part 1
FAILURES AND SUCCESSES
So this season I planned on taking off except for my bull snakes. The bull snakes eggs looked good at first but quickly went bad and never had actual veins! The surprise clutch is actually doing good. One egg went bad, and the other 2 are doing perfect! They are due to hatch in the … Continue reading FAILURES AND SUCCESSES
Selling snakes
At some point during your time in this hobby especially if you breed, you will have to sell the animals that you produced. Making snakes is the easy part, finding room for babies is easy, as they grow up finding space becomes harder and harder, so selling/giving away is the only option unless you want … Continue reading Selling snakes
Eggs!!
So on 6/21/17 I checked off another species of python off the list, everybody I know has a master list of species they want to breed before they die. Mine is more into genus', because I'm not breeding children's pythons, or stimsons, not going to happen. However I'll breed spotteds. They are by far easier … Continue reading Eggs!!
Room update
This is going to be kinda short as there's not a whole lot going on. We have just started pre breeding conditioning with my girls that I want to try and go this winter, med rats every 2 weeks, switching to larges in sept for a month. Then introductions begin. I have one clutch on the … Continue reading Room update
Lessons learned
My last post you learned about my first ever experience breeding carpet pythons. This time I'm going to talk about sons of the things I've learned from that experience. Most of these lessons are going to pertain to pythons, specifically Morelia. If you have spotted pythons they might be a bit different, black heads are … Continue reading Lessons learned
My first ever clutch
So this is my second blog entry, and figured I'd go back to the beginning of my breeding adventure. It started in 2011 with animals I purchased in 2008. I cannot remember which animal was born in 2007, and which one was born in 2006. The female I named pandora, and the male Lestat, yes … Continue reading My first ever clutch
