Sunset--amelanistic corn snake, male, 2 1/2 years old
Snow--snow corn snake, female, 2 1/2 years old
Scarlett--bloodred corn snake, female, 1 year old, my problem child
Blaze--amelanistic corn snake heterozygous for the lavendar trait, male, 1 year old
Onyx--California King snake, banded phase, male, 2 1/2 years old
Slider--ball python, unknown gender, approximately 2-3 years old
Monty--ball python, male, 1 1/2 years oldI hope you enjoyed this trip down reptile lane. Now I really must get back to my knitting...
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7 comments:
Wow! those are all your snakes? They are beautiful! My husband would NOT do well in your house-hahahaha he is so scared of snakes. Dumb question- do they live together or do they all have to be separated?
Monty is technically my son's snake, but the rest are mine. That is not such a dumb question. It is asked at least once a week on the cornsnake forums. The answer is no, they do not all live together. Each one has its own tank. It is not a good idea to house snakes together. They are solitary animals and do not need or even want company.
Aaron is going to love these - thanks, Becky!
You like the red one's don't you? I don't know if it's the lighting, but Sunset in gorgeous - he almost looks translucent.
The snakes are beautiful in a snakey sort of way. I like the fall tree pictures better.
What drawing program do you use? Is it something on the internet? I have a student who might could use something on the net.
Cindy, you're welcome. Keep checking back for more pictures and info.
Lou, thank you, and the snakes thank you, too. Personally, I don't use a drawing program. I downloaded a couple and tried them out, but decided I didn't really like them. I can't remember where I got them from, though. Both were free, I do remember that part.
Patti, a male snake has hemipenes, and a female snake doesn't. A male snake's hemipenes are kept inside a cavity in the base of his tail. After all, he wouldn't want the dragging along the ground as he crawled, would he? A person experienced at sexing snakes can cause a male hatchling's hemipenes to pop out by exerting pressure at the base of the tail. If nothing comes out, it is a female. There are also other ways to tell, such as probing. This is when a sexing probe is inserted into the vent at the base of the tail. If it goes in a certain length it is a female. If it goes in a different length, it is a male. I can't remember which is which, though.
With Sunset, I bought him at a pet store, so I didn't know whether he was male or female until this past spring. From March to May, he displayed such typical male breeding behavior--refusing to eat, cruising constantly, looking for a girlfriend--that I knew he was a male.
Sometimes, males will extend their hemipenes voluntarily. This is how we determined that Monty was a male.
Slider we don't know about. Cody says he is female, but I don't know. I just call him a he until we find out for sure. The others, Snow, Onyx, Blaze, and Scarlett, were sexed by their breeders.
Do your snakes bite? If so, wouldn't there be some sort of poison in the bite? I really don't know much about snakes, but I have to admit that these ones look very pretty.
All of my snakes can bite, but they rarely do. Onyx has chewed on me a couple of times, and Snow and Sunset have each struck at me at least once, but they were young and not tamed yet.
About 90% of the world's snake species are nonvenomous, including mine. I would never keep hot (venomous) snakes or large constrictors. I don't see the point of having a snake you can't handle.
Just a bit of trivia, and a bit pedantic: there is no such thing as a poisonous snake. They are venomous. What's the difference? Poison is injested. Venom is injected.
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