Morellia Madness

[nikkubus]

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Morelia Mafia 4 Life


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Looking really bright yellow today, so beautiful. I look forward to seeing lots more.

[Gio]

A good read related to feeding and growth.

https://www.snakesociety.nl/jaargang...%20spilota.pdf

I wish there was more information on this subject. Hopefully Nick and Justin have covered more in the upcoming book.

[jmcrook]

Zombie critter

MM4L


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[Gio]

Zombie critter

MM4L


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Love the substrate. I use the same!

[jmcrook]

Posted this in another thread. Not necessarily Morelia specific, but it is Morelia Python Radio. One of the most engaging, entertaining, and informative episodes I’ve listened too. And they’ve set a consistently high bar for a decade. 10th season airing weekly. WOW! Will certainly need to re-listen multiple times and learn from it continuously.

Find your passions and follow them, folks. I’ve found Morelia after close to two decades of admiring, and while things can always change, Morelia and Boas do it for me. I know there will be ebbs and flows of change in decades to come, but it feels incredible to have the knowledge, research, trials, errors, theories, observations, questions, answers, speculations, phenotypes, localities, pedigrees, species, subspecies, etc that are available to herpetoculture at this moment in time.

Here’s to finding what you love and doing it for a lifetime. Cheers, y’all


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000511317157


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[WrongPython]

Oh yeah, this was my favorite recent episode, and probably one of favorites overall! This deep of a dive into snake biology and life history is what I look for nowadays.

The next food order is going to look a little bit different thanks to this episode. A little bit of poking around yesterday revealed that Layne Labs and a few other places sell day-old quail that are the same weight as a hopper mouse, so it looks like the kids will be getting a taste of avian prey sooner rather than later. I'd like to give Reptilinks a try as well, but they have a $75 minimum order requirement, and I'm not sure I want to order that much product without knowing my kids will eat it. That might change if day-old quail chicks come back in stock there, though, and I can split the cost between links and whole prey.

Ideally, my combined Boa-Morelia freezer would contain a mix of different rodents, birds, and even reptilian prey (ie. the iguana meat Reptilinks). It's hard finding all of that stuff in one place, though, as is shopping for a diversity of prey items for just a few snakes. Even the small quantity packages are still on the large size. For example: for one boa, one pack of mice/rats and one pack of chicks may be a year's worth of food, and just two types of prey isn't a particularly diverse diet. It sure would be nice if reptile food suppliers offered mixed prey packs...

On the topic of diet and prey diversity: a falconry website I liked to frequent in my wannabe days has a great page on prey types, their nutritional benefits, and creating a balanced diet. Granted, it's for raptors, but I think the information can be valuable for reptile keepers as well.

[jmcrook]

Stalking the floor from her perches as she does every single night, surely thinking “this game trail sucks!”



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[HarryTB]

These guys are so busy at dusk, they crack me up

Let me out!



Nothing to see here, just chilling ... move along everyone




Feed me




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[dakski]

Yafe (Albino Darwin/Irian Jaya Hybrid) at 840G and 3 years and 9 months old.

[WrongPython]

So the flight from Spokane didn't phase this girl in the slightest!

Meet Pandora, a 2020 Papuan carpet produced by Nick Mutton. She seems to be settling in well and enjoying her new box. I'll get around to creating her thread in a bit, but y'all can enjoy one of the few non-blurry photos I have of her for now.

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