New and Old Snakes - DUW

Thanks Heather and Tim. I am going to try breeding this hear. I am planning to breed my Bell pastel to my o4 virgin female and my spider to the woma-ish looking girl I picked up at Tinley. I'm still deciding whether I want to breed the mojo to the 2 new girls from Chris Simone, or give one to my albino to try for hets. I'll be getting a late start since I have to quarantine and get fecals done on the new girls. I hope at least 3 go for me this year for all my co-doms, but it's looking a lot better than I thought. Only 6 weeks ago I thought I was only going to try for pastels with my 04 girl, then I got a little squirrelly like I tend to do and bought a few more breeders at the last minute.

Nice snakes. I don't see any hides though in any of the pics?

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Originally Posted by Vomitore

Nice snakes. I don't see any hides though in any of the pics?

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Thanks. I stopped using them after I read on a big breeder's site that he doesn't own a single hide. I don't remember who, maybe Ralph or EBN? I keep them in tight tubs in a room that doesn't get any traffic, and they all do fine. They don't skip meals and are generally calm and healthy.

Jake, lovely snakes! Is that a rack you built yourself?

Yeah i only have three that use hides the rest just sit on top of them or sit next them so i dont offer them. By the way all my snakes are in racks as well so they dont really require them.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Jake, lovely snakes! Is that a rack you built yourself?

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Thanks! Yeah, I made all of my racks. The one pictured is the new one that only took 2 1/2 hours to build and wire, and cost me $20 because I found a HD store credit in the parking lot on the way to buy the materials. All I had to pay for was the flexwatt. The adult rack took a lot longer to build, but mostly because I had to iron melamine tape on the raw front and top. Racks are too expensive to not build your own :)

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Originally Posted by juddb

Yeah i only have three that use hides the rest just sit on top of them or sit next them so i dont offer them. By the way all my snakes are in racks as well so they dont really require them.

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Exactly. I only had enough floorspace for one hide in my smaller tubs, and they didn't even use them most of the time. Eventually I just stopped putting them back in on cleaning days. They don't seem to mind.

I remember now. Marcus of Marcus-Jayne is the breeder who doesn't own a single hide. I usually only look to Canadians when Whiskey is involved, but he seems to know what he's doing up there.