Well, I've had to do some rearranging of my corn collection. Pixie, my (expensive) Hypo Bloodred female that was the slow grower, suddenly turned into the Witch of the West.
Before she was calm, if a little nervous, when held. Then about a month ago she turned mean: Striking everything as soon as her tub was opened, spraying all over the place, thrashing so much I could hardly hold her, and biting me (or anything else she could reach) about every second. I tried everything I knew to settle her - not putting her back until she settled a bit (never did), moving slowly to not scare her (didn't matter, she'd start as soon as the lid lifted), leaving her alone for a week... nothing worked.

Since my snakes are pets before breeders, I just couldn't have a snake that acted like that in the house. I contacted a corn breeding friend of mine and set up a trade. I hated having to give up (for now) on my dream morph - Ghost Bloods, but that was just too much.


Now, the good news: My new snake is a pretty, sweet, and larger female CandyCane. She's about 1.5 years old, weighed in today at 94g (a bit thin, but I can fix that), and is currently in shed so her colors are really dulled, she's really a clean white and bright red:





So, whadda ya think? I need a good name for her...something mythological.