The Whole Crew - In honor of the new year

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At this point, I would say I am notoriously bad at keeping up with progression threads, or even starting them for most of my snakes. So, in honor of the new year and to share some of my better pictures, I'll be posting pics of my various snakes.

My first snake, Noodle the Abbott's Okeetee corn snake as a tiny baby:


He only ever was super defensive in shed once, back when he was tiny, but he gave his all to a rattlesnake impression. Hissing, striking, lifted strike pose, and tail rattling.. the whole 9 yards.


Couple more recent pictures.



And my first ball python, Obi, a spider het for piebald. I was somewhat ignorant of some things, so I set out to get the nicest individual adult male I could find locally in my price range. I didn't have specific morphs in mind, since I was looking primarily for temperament.

I had seen many posts on troublesome babies and eating and had wanted a smaller adult a sa start. Needless to say, those of you with experience know my problem... I got Obi in October just before winter and he had started his fast. He was a former breeder male and weighed about 1,350g to start. During his fasting he ate roughly 1 small meal per month, live only, for the first 5 months. 2 40-50g rats and 3 adult mice... needless to say, it was stressful trying to get him to settle.


But since then, he has transitioned to frozen rats and is by at the crowd favorite of my snakes. He is extremely calm in motion and not at all head shy, although he is very energetic and moves constantly 90% of the time. (The other 10% he is mimicking a bracelet.. or an anklet.)


He is also a very good climber and seems to really enjoy climbing down as many things as possible. Tables, ladders, and even people.


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