I'm hoping that it's alright to put our other pet photos in this pet photos thread. :s Beware and be square, snake photos ahead!
I recently acquired all three snakes in the past 3~4 months. A little male albino ball python named Cake, a black pastel female named Blackout, and a Dumeril's Boa named Vigil. They all have very distinct personalities, which I find very fascinating.
Cake is quite inquisitive and quickly learned to trust me = "human hand is safe and warm, outside world is unknown and kind of scary, so stay on human hand yes yes". Blackout is an extremely fearful little ball of a ball python who gets startled very easily by any movement... I can take her out of her tub, and she can sit on my hand wrapped in a cautious ball for 15 minutes before deciding to poke her head around. And Vigil is just an extremely chill Dumeril's Boa who falls asleep on my lap or in my arms every time I take her out, and WILL stay in that fixed asleep position for hours and hours if I didn't wake her up.
Snakes definitely aren't a highly intelligent animal, but they are definitely smarter than a lot of people tend to give them credit for. Both ball pythons and dumeril's boas are extremely docile and shy species of snakes who just want to hide in a dark and warm hole all day long, until they get hungry. Then they just slither out slowly and sit there waiting for me to drop them a thawed rodent. I also discovered that snakes are THE MOST low-maintenance pets I have ever owned, out of the various animals I have owned. They eat once a week~every other week, poop and pee only once every other week... "playing" is just kind of... holding them. It's pretty great. Which is also why I stocked up on more snakes so quickly. It's so easy to add another with no trouble at all.
Compiling their old photos here too, for comparison in the future.
Cake and Blackout have both grown considerably since I've obtained them! When I received Cake, he was only a tiny 70g. Blackout was supposedly around 350g, but I feel like she might have been a bit bigger.
First post dedicated to Cake records...
June 23, 2015. 70g. Some size reference...
June 10, 2015
A tiny little worm hanging on my neck, relative to me. June 10, 2015. I was thinking of taking a snake neck selfie every few months to record growth relative to my face, instead of just photos of Cake alone.
This little golden garden king. (reptile-safe succulent: potted Portulacaria afra with no fertilizers) This stuff is safe for tortoises to munch on too.
Literally grown in a flat miniature landscape for the sole purpose of reptile photos. LOL.
August 25th... already no longer fits entirely on my hand.
I recently acquired all three snakes in the past 3~4 months. A little male albino ball python named Cake, a black pastel female named Blackout, and a Dumeril's Boa named Vigil. They all have very distinct personalities, which I find very fascinating.
Cake is quite inquisitive and quickly learned to trust me = "human hand is safe and warm, outside world is unknown and kind of scary, so stay on human hand yes yes". Blackout is an extremely fearful little ball of a ball python who gets startled very easily by any movement... I can take her out of her tub, and she can sit on my hand wrapped in a cautious ball for 15 minutes before deciding to poke her head around. And Vigil is just an extremely chill Dumeril's Boa who falls asleep on my lap or in my arms every time I take her out, and WILL stay in that fixed asleep position for hours and hours if I didn't wake her up.
Snakes definitely aren't a highly intelligent animal, but they are definitely smarter than a lot of people tend to give them credit for. Both ball pythons and dumeril's boas are extremely docile and shy species of snakes who just want to hide in a dark and warm hole all day long, until they get hungry. Then they just slither out slowly and sit there waiting for me to drop them a thawed rodent. I also discovered that snakes are THE MOST low-maintenance pets I have ever owned, out of the various animals I have owned. They eat once a week~every other week, poop and pee only once every other week... "playing" is just kind of... holding them. It's pretty great. Which is also why I stocked up on more snakes so quickly. It's so easy to add another with no trouble at all.
Compiling their old photos here too, for comparison in the future.
Cake and Blackout have both grown considerably since I've obtained them! When I received Cake, he was only a tiny 70g. Blackout was supposedly around 350g, but I feel like she might have been a bit bigger.
First post dedicated to Cake records...
June 23, 2015. 70g. Some size reference...
June 10, 2015
A tiny little worm hanging on my neck, relative to me. June 10, 2015. I was thinking of taking a snake neck selfie every few months to record growth relative to my face, instead of just photos of Cake alone.
This little golden garden king. (reptile-safe succulent: potted Portulacaria afra with no fertilizers) This stuff is safe for tortoises to munch on too.
Literally grown in a flat miniature landscape for the sole purpose of reptile photos. LOL.
August 25th... already no longer fits entirely on my hand.
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