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Very practical idea for providing a bathtub.  Are they all males?  Brothers?

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That second picture shows him much better.  The tiny ducky is adorable.  I tend to name my animals after greek gods and goddesses or constellations or mythical heroes.  I have a friend who is quite quirky and named his goat “Pig”.  That way he could say, “that’ll do Pig, that’ll do.”

 

What sort of supplements do you provide for Onion to dust his food with or gutload his crickets on?

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Some pricey pets, but those colors are worth it to those who can pay.  At those prices, do you insure your reptiles? And if so, who with and are you happy with them?

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Have you tried shining a light (flashlights work) through the upper tail to see if the elongated internal testes can be seen through the skin?  Dark room and bright flashlight can often illuminate the gender question 🙂

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OMG, I have so many questions.  To start with, how true is the white coverage for the 50% that do express the gene? That is, would you expect that 50% to all be just as ‘lilly white’ as the ones in the pictures?  Or do you find that some of the white gene expression is much stronger in that 50% among certain individuals than others?  And also, and this is a super cheeky question, so feel free to ignore it, how much do some of these specialty color morphs cost, as a rule?

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Onion looks like he is trying to become one with an onion blossom.  So cute.  But I do have to ask, as I always do with pets that have been given quirky names, why Onion?

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This response to a threat from Garters does not seem to be absolutely hard-wired.  Some wild-caught snakes I have handled have done it, others have not.  I caught one when I was 13 who wrapped itself around my wrist and stuck out its little tail and ‘rattled’ like mad!  It was so amusing I took it into the house to show my parents.  They liked snakes a whole lot less than I did and they were not amused.  But I thought it was hysterical.

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Awesome tip about the light, and very useful for beginning keepers or future keepers.  She will get bigger than this, right?

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I find biomimicry so fascinating.  The whole tail flicking thing just cracks me up.  I think “who are you trying to fool”?  But plainly someone is fooled, often enough that this defensive trait exists and persists.  I’ve seen terrestrial garter snakes do this and it’s a hoot.

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When do you think the nuptials will begin?

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Sounds like a sounds supplementation strategy.  What sort of greens does he enjoy?

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If you get a chance, could you start a thread under “Snakes” about your hognose?  That category needs more folks chiming in and getting some informative dialogue about various species, their care, and behavior.  That would be super and of course critter golds are awarded for that as well.

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Smokey seems like a true sweetie.  What made you decide on a hognose snake, of all the potential snake choices out there?

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Will Apollo and Miss Reagan be making little geckos any time soon?

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Congrats Cait!

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