Personal funny reptile moments

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Zincubus

Albino Spectacled Cobra being harassed by a FLY !

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLswXXVg...=1phpxw9unn6kg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

---

I think that should be posted as a "no-fly zone"-:D

I just watched my snake crawl on top of his warm hide and put his head in the air to get a view, and fall down. then look and where he was before like. ".......wat. I- I-I though I was.... never mind." then crawl up to me and stared at me so I booped his nose for the tenth time. then after a while of looking at me for a bit more he went back to trying to crawl on top of his hide. then I just picked him up and put him somewhere else and he got the hint to stop doing that because every time he does he ends up going so high in the air trying to get a view that he runs out of lower weight to center him and falls down.

He slinked back into his hide before I could get my phone out in time, but my BP Stormtrooper-aimed his meal again today and got his coils around the main body, but missed the head completely after the initial strike. I look at him while I'm putting the lid back on and he had only a front paw in his mouth as if to say "...Yeah this still works right?"

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Snagrio

He slinked back into his hide before I could get my phone out in time, but my BP Stormtrooper-aimed his meal again today and got his coils around the main body, but missed the head completely after the initial strike. I look at him while I'm putting the lid back on and he had only a front paw in his mouth as if to say "...Yeah this still works right?"

---

It always amazes me how some snakes can be so stubborn, hanging onto a foot & wondering why they can't swallow what they caught- :rofl: So is he eating or did he give up?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Bogertophis

It always amazes me how some snakes can be so stubborn, hanging onto a foot & wondering why they can't swallow what they caught- :rofl: So is he eating or did he give up?

---

Oh he ate it alright. He was only like that for the "kill" and had already started to drag it inside the hide to swallow by the time I turned around.

In fact I checked on him again just now and he was back to looking out of the hide and snapping his head to look at me hoping that I had more. Greedy little glutton. :snake:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Snagrio

Oh he ate it alright. He was only like that for the "kill" and had already started to drag it inside the hide to swallow by the time I turned around.

In fact I checked on him again just now and he was back to looking out of the hide and snapping his head to look at me hoping that I had more. Greedy little glutton. :snake:

---

Good snake- he got it done! I wouldn't take off too many points for style... :D I've had tail-grabbers too.

Necroing this. My BP was strangely active last night, repeatedly rising up to the top of the cage screen and acting like he was attempting an escape. Wasn't until tonight I realized why. His weekly meal was two whole days late. :doh:

His strikes when I got the rat ready were so powerful and off the mark I was half expecting to have my hand tagged by accident, and when he finally did land he grabbed it so hard that there was still a piece of fur stuck to the tongs.:weirdface

I had another realization. The rat pups he's been eating are WAY too small for him now (I bought them in bulk). He's over 500 grams and should be eating two sizes higher.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...1d2ea1854f.png

There's only one of them left at least, then I have a few 50 gram rats in the freezer that I erroneously bought a while ago when he was too small for them.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Snagrio

I had another realization. The rat pups he's been eating are WAY too small for him now (I bought them in bulk). He's over 500 grams and should be eating two sizes higher.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...1d2ea1854f.png

There's only one of them left at least, then I have a few 50 gram rats in the freezer that I erroneously bought a while ago when he was too small for them.

---

Yeah, that sure WOULD explain his "enthusiasm". :snake2:

Due to my BP's shenanigans this thread is rising from its grave once again.

Like many enclosures he has a pair of thermometer/hydrometers sitting inside on either end. Well, mine have a touchscreen feature to change between Fahrenheit and Celsius. Lately he's become more active during the night (I've even seen him completely out and about), and during his evening forays he's started a habit of bumping into them and somehow pushing the screen in just the exact spot to change the temperature readings so I come downstairs the next morning to see one side of the enclosure is "in the 20's" and have a mini panic attack. Of course, rationally, that'd be impossible as it's not even that cold outside yet and would certainly never be that cold indoors, but it still gets me in the split-second moment of shock.

In short, he's unintentionally giving me heart attacks just by moving around. :ohmygod:

Every house needs a snake that does comedy, eh? :D :snake:

Yea, that probably would give me a heart attack as well...

Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Rainbow, she was a large female retic I had, Came flying about 6 feet out her enclosure to grab a chicken. It was half way down her mouth when I went to help her back in her enclosure. She spit it out and looked at me like "I am eating here!" Left her alone and she got it the rest of the way down and went back in her enclosure to digest. For a moment I did not know what I was going to do to get her home. I am just happy she loved her home enough to go back in while in food mode.

Even if I didn't dutifully keep feeding records, I think I'd be able to tell when my BP's getting to that stage of hungry due to the number of objects he bowls over during the night at this point. He does tend to move around most nights, but there's cruising and then there's hunting where he's determined to dismantle his nicely decorated enclosure. :rolleyes:

Yeah, snakes can be rough on that nice decor we try to set up. One reason I'd personally never do bio-active- it would never work for what I keep anyway.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Bogertophis

Yeah, snakes can be rough on that nice decor we try to set up. One reason I'd personally never do bio-active- it would never work for what I keep anyway.

---

You just know there's at least someone out there who went with a super fancy bioactive with a full range of live plants, and then put a sand boa in it and proceeded to wonder why all their plants kept getting toppled over. Going as naturalistic as possible is a nice thought, but reality often disagrees with such sentiments in the practicality department. :P

Yeah, I think bio-active would be great for something like banded geckos or night lizards (my desert "past" is showing), but not snakes. The calmest snakes I have- that never re-arrange their enclosures- are my Trans Pecos rat snakes (which is amazing, considering they get 4' to 5') & my Aussie Spotted python (she's about 4'). They don't dig under things or knock them over, & are very "respectful" of whatever I set up for them- they move slowly & deliberately, which I greatly appreciate. :snake:

MAN do I have some good stories for my ball python Phantom. My friends affectionately refer to him as a himbo because although he's very docile and sweet (and has even won over friends and family who used to be very nervous around snakes), he is...not a shining example of reptile intelligence.

Phantom has a high ledge in his enclosure. He likes to climb up there and chill at night. One time after handling him, I was putting him back and he reeeeeached for his ledge, so I set him up there. He was content for a few minutes before wanting down. Now, he's mostly curled on top of his ledge, but he stretches his neck out slowly to survey his climbing down options. Another ledge slightly lower down to his right--yes, ok, he's marked that as an option. There's also a log that points up to his ledge--he taps that with his nose and clocks it as another option. Two valid ways to climb down. So he gathers up his coils, and promptly yeets himself off the ledge by just rolling off the side, rather than climbing down. When he lands (on his substrate, only like a foot down), he seemed shocked, like he could not comprehend what just happened. Why ledge mean to Phantom? Surprise pikachu face!

He's a sweetie but boy he's not clever lol

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...h/02d3rtbvkkrr

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by VelkynKarma

...He's a sweetie but boy he's not clever lol ...

---

:rofl: He has plenty of "company"- hahaha! But BPs are rather poor at hanging onto things, so climbing up or down is more of a challenge, due to their body shape-plus shelves probably don't really have anything for them to hang onto.* That's one thing that's cool about rat snakes (incl. corn snakes)- they slide along branches pretty gracefully, & even rest comfortably on them- they've got the right body build for it though. *You can likely improve the available traction for yours with simple additions.