..my white snakes are so wierd. (pics too)

I have these two characters..Starscream and Zephyr. They are by far the WIERDEST snakes I have ever owned. Zephyr is the calmer of the two, and Starscream can be quite calm when she wants to, set aside the fact of her being so neurotic.She does not like children, as when she was only about 8 months old, (stupid me) I let my nephew hold her, and he dropped her...it is amazing how animals can remember things, as she struck at only "little people" through the glass for the next two weeks after that and I have not felt comfortable with her being around children since, due to the occasional nip or threat strike....however adults can pick her up and handle her no problem.She only eats f/t or p/k that is handed to her on a silver platter. If the mouse is alive, she'll take a test nip at it, then look up at me as if to say, "well, aren't ya gonna kill it for me??!!!" . Zephyr on the other hand has to have a hide to "sneak away" into after he's killed the prey item. He will also stop eating and stare at me if i peek into the feeding box to check on him....feeding resumes when I leave. I originally got these guys as babies...had em' for almost three years and are just starting to mate for the fist time......
It seems like lately, whenever i scoop the cage and fill the bowl with fresh clean water,they mate. Whenever I feed them, they mate.....right afterwards. It is the freakiest thing I have ever seen...Zephyr "undulates" his whole body, and she does this wierd "jerky twitch dance" thing....and all the while they turn the cage into a complete disaster,thrashing about and throwing their bodies every which way:upending their water bowl and soaking the bedding,filling the bowl with bedding they happened to shove in there,knocking every thing over, and some things that were on the right side of the cage somehow ended up on the left. What's even crazier is the fact that sometimes Starscream will randomly do the jerky twitch thing sometimes when I am holding her....
http://www.snakeneggs.com/snakepics/U lookin at.jpg http://www.snakeneggs.com/snakepics/crazy snake.jpg
..Zephyr Starscream..me? loopy?...naahhh

This is the cage three nights ago.... top view
http://www.snakeneggs.com/snakepics/tidy cage.jpg http://www.snakeneggs.com/snakepics/tidy top.jpg

...this is yesterday morning after "being in the throes of passion" all night...
http://www.snakeneggs.com/snakepics/wild night.jpg
..mind you those two crystal trees were glued to the bottom of the cage....

love is in the air.......http://www.snakeneggs.com/snakepics/luv.jpg
http://www.snakeneggs.com/snakepics/nose 2 nose.jpg...cross your fingers guys, that I get a clutch from these two crazy white critters!!!

Looks like prom night in there....

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Buwhahah! I love the morning after picture! Rawr...

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Looks like prom night in there....

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OMG! It does! Do a little dance, make a little love...get down tonight! Get down tonight!

Gonna get some fun personalities out of those babies, lol!

yeah!! finger cross for you, I want one!lol

Ahhh...from the very moment I started researching which "first snake" to buy years ago, I've wanted a Lucy Texas Rat. They look like a real pair of characters! LOL I wish you all the best of luck getting a whole pile of sweet, snowy babies....and someday, I'll buy one from ya! ;)

hahahah that is TOO cute!

Cuter than cute! They look so mischevious!!!

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Originally Posted by Melicious

OMG! It does! Do a little dance, make a little love...get down tonight! Get down tonight!

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Song - now - stuck - in - head! :O

Oh that's hilarious! I love the "we wrecked our house but whooooaaaa baby did we have us some fun!!!" pic. Can't wait to hear if there is a positive result from all this. How many eggs do you usually lay? How long do they incubate? Can you tell I'm actually too tired for once to Google all the answers? LOL

Mike has always wanted a Black Milksnake and one of your Texas Leucy's is big on my list. It would be pretty cool to have a solid black and a solid white snake (ebony and ivory...living together in.....oh dang what is the rest of that Stevie Wonder song?????) :P

By the time I hit the reptile show I will be so broke. Can't make up my mind. rat snake, rtb, or vbb OR was it vbb, rat snake or rtb. Every time I see starscream thats what I want. Then I see the vbb's. I AM GOING CRAZY!!! CAN'T HAVE ALL!!!!:taz:

what kind of snakes are these white beauties?

They are Leucistic Texas Ratsnakes. :)

Great pictures. One day I'll get myself a LTR! They just are so pretty.

Everytime my 12 year old daughter Beth sees the setup you have for your LTR's she just drools! The ice blue against the white and that igloo are just so sweet. Wherever did you get that igloo and can Beth steal your idea if we ever get one? LOL She's big into learning about cage decorations since she got her first colubrid a few months back.

Jo, that igloo was sooo hard to find. I knew in my mind I wanted one, it's just that the problem was finding one of an appropriate size....and then, BAM!! after two years of searching,...there it was.....A snow playset at Toys R Us that came with eskimos,seals, sleds,dogs,a whale, and.........an igloo.(perfect size). How much was the set???? $19.95...did I really want to pay that much for a hide?????...hmmmmm.....I thought, well I could just give the rest of the set to my two nephews as a gift then I wouldn't feel so guilty....Upon arriving at the register, ......$9.88 on clearance!!!!!:carrot: And of course you can have my decor ideas!!!! I'll share anything!!!.....it's amazing how far a little planning and imagination can go.....

so what kind of snake are these? I'm simply dying to know, they are SSOO beautiful!!

Oh thanks for filling me in on the igloo thing! I think I've actually seen that playset somewhere (mind is gone...it'll come to me someday LOL).

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Originally Posted by JLC

They are Leucistic Texas Ratsnakes. :)

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

.........is big on my list. It would be pretty cool to have a solid black and a solid white snake (ebony and ivory...living together in.....oh dang what is the rest of that Stevie Wonder song?????) :P

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SW??? Yeah, I guess it was Little Stevie hee hee hee I always just remember the "ivory" side of things to start, b/c we just wuuuuuv Paul McCartney. *singing*...Eee-bony and Iiiii-vory, live together in peeer-fect harmony, side by side ........ hahahahahaha :8:

i just love those pics... hahahaha what a night of heavy love making that was!!!

reminds me of my youth... hahahahahahahahaha

so what kind of snake are these lovely creatures? I've been wondering

They are Leucistic Texas rat snakes...(say that three times fast!). ....and my female (Starscream) just laid eggs last night!!! (6/18) hooray!