Powerlifting, Orchid-Growing, Now Snake-Keeping Newbie Here!

[babyeater]

Welcome to the forums and thanks for contributing to another member as well.

There are a few little tweaks I would do to your enclosure but I'm about to run some errands so I if nobody else touches them up while I'm gone then I'll do it when I get back. Gorgeous snake btw.

Oh, I'd love to hear your feedback on it! I imagine it may relate to the heat lamp..ultimately, I do want to get a ceramic one, but I was just very nervous about using a ceramic bulb in this lamp (it's a pretty standard fluker's one). I have a dimmer on it! I will upgrade, and if you have some guidance on that, that would be amazing.

Welcome!! Nice goin with the powerlifting
I was looking at getting into carnivorous plants, I saw some at a reptile a couple months ago and thought they were awesome in person
nice snake too, congrats!!

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They're honestly really easy to take care of. You just have to remember that the substrate is a rather particular bark-ish mix (you 100% cannot use potting soil with these guys, they will die), that you shouldn't fertilize their soil (they also will die), and that you must water them with nothing other than distilled water--or at least nothing at a purity level below distilled. Usually they come planted in the correct substrate, and they don't NEED flies often to survive (at least the kind I have doesn't). Just hang them in a bright window and they'll really be fun to watch grow. Watching the pitchers develop is so cool. Interestingly, orchids require a similar care breakdown--except they do take fertilizer.

Welcome!! Beautiful snake

Welcome to the hobby!!

Thanks, I feel like this forum is really nice and positive/inclusive--you guys are great.

Welcome aboard! Awesome natoianl ranking and nice snake!

Thanks--I work HARD at my training and I'm probably more ambitious with it than anything related to my career. Heh.

Welcome! Congrats on the new family member!

And as a guy who is a fan of everything fitness, and an ex power lifter myself (before all the injuries and surgeries) I am glad to see people come on the site with a variety of backgrounds and interests. It's what makes this place interesting!!

Welcome again!

Oh man, that's fantastic!! What weight class(s) and what feds did you compete with? Sorry to hear about the injuries; it's a pretty significant side effect of the sport. I have several ribs that don't like to stay in place because of my lifting activities.

Welcome to the forum; whose babies have you been eating??

Hope to see ya round here learning a lot.


Pretty snake....and I like the weightlifting pic...nice contrast with the "pretty girl" image lol

Haha, the "babyeater" name is actually my powerlifting nickname. I bulked up to 135 a while ago (before I started competing; I wanted to do a bulk to but on some lean mass and then leaned back down after it) and I was always eating so I joked around about eating everything, including babies. It just sort of evolved, lol.

If I wear relatively covering, non-gym clothing, you would not be able to tell I squat and deadlift more than some men by looking at me. Strength isn't always about size, and people don't equate a 114 lb-ish girl with strength. So I get to play both roles, it's kind of cool.

Yay! You introduced yourself

That picture of her mid shed is pretty cool with the eye caps! I'm excited for you to see her post shed! I love the lifting pic, that's awesome

Yeah! I really wanted to and I guess I technically have a few pictures of her now so I thought I'd go for it. I am SO happy her eye caps came off with the shed--I was getting a little nervous about that. Hopefully her shed will continue to go well and I'm going to start pushing the feeding relatively soon--still want to make sure she's settled in. She just switches back and forth between hides and seems content, so I think that's a really good sign.