*bows graciously *

[Stormy Night]

Hey. I've been an animal rescuer since I was a kid. And a few years ago I had a breeder who lost his job, was moving, &wanted out of the business, dump 23 ball pythons on me. Sink or swim I read every snake book I could find. Alot of what I read was common sense. So my addiction started that day. I now have 45 balls. a few pied,pastel,albino, Mojave. two albino Boas. And a albino corn snake that's longer than I am tall. ..whether that means I'm really short or he's really long is debatable. My bedroom is now my temperature controlled reptile room. I also build custom cabinets with vines, waterfalls,moss, tree limbs (i always bake them first). They look like chunks of forest. I also have a bearded dragon and a Savannah monitor. Most of the ppl I run into are creeped out that I have snakes and Im a chick. I don't get That.
I'm not a breeder, although I probably should be. Alot of my legless clan are extremely beautiful. I am collecting every stitch of Intel on the subject incase I ever feel the need to make the leap into breeder.
on a more personal level...and less rambely..
I live in FL. Home of the "alligators in every body of water" and " where dumbshit ppl release 20' snakes into the Everglades and ruin it for everyone".
my husband and I have been together for 15 years and I have an 8 year old son who also is a Snake enthusiast.
I was wandering around online snakey land and came across a few threads from This site. You guys seemed interesting, hence me being here now. My first forum joined.
-SN

[infernalis]

http://www.thamfriends.com/mat.jpg

[infernalis]

Most of the ppl I run into are creeped out that I have snakes and Im a chick. I don't get That.


I get creeped out by chicks that don't have snakes:eek:

[dshin963]

I get creeped out by chicks that don't have snakes:eek:

Hey Wayne whats that on your nose... :sorry::crazy2:

Lol btw welcome and you joined a great forum,
A lot of the members on here are great people and quick to help you out if you ask :)
Have fun and learn as much as possible :)
Because knowledge is power :D

[NennaMeerkat]

Welcome to our little corner of the internet!

[dshin963]

We have a whole corner?!

[Reptile_Reptile]

actually its a rhombus but dont play semantics. welcome and we obviously being a forum want a picture of every legless wonder you have

[infernalis]

We have a whole corner?!

give it time, we will dominate the whole damn net someday..

every day we turn up on species google searches with increasing frequency.

[Stormy Night]

Thanks guys. I'm still figuring out how to post pictures. I haven't found the "add photo" button yet.

[NennaMeerkat]

Its the image of a couple of mountains and a little sun looking thing with a yellow background.

[Reptile_Reptile]

this is how to post pics ^_^

[Stormy Night]

Yay! Found it! Thank you for wacking me with a news paper and sticking my face in it J, lol. I actually somehow managed to magically load them under my profile. There are perhapse 10 or so. Ill have to take more tomorrow.

[Stormy Night]

Wait....maybe not..lol.I'm going with the "its 2 am!" Excuse. I can't find them now. Maybe they only posted in the gallery. Hmmmmm

[infernalis]

I will sort it for you in the morning..

[Stormy Night]

Cthulu and lillith by my pond. Sumac diving in. Zombie my new baby. Lucy my yellow baby that I was snake sitting while ppl went on vacation ..but they haven't come back. My first cabinet creation.

[Stormy Night]

Willow my albino. Nettle re adjusting. Lucy my monitor. My wedding ring. AND I have snake bite piercings....does that count?

[TeaNinja]

sweet B)

[infernalis]

how old is your Sav?

[stephanbakir]

Love the sav, fantastic looking vivariums aswell!

[ilovemypets1988]

beautiful cabinet and collection, welcome to the forum, our little "snake hole" lol

[dshin963]

Great collection :D love the pics keep em coming :)

[marvelfreak]

Hello and welcome! Beautiful animals cant' wait to see more pics.

[Stormy Night]

Infernalis, my savvy is a little over a year. The person I got her from only fed her harboiled eggs so she was stunted for awhile.

(Lucy when she was a baby, sleeping on a pillow after a bath, sucking down a F/T mouse, eyeing me, and krate my dragon)

[stephanbakir]

Love the first pic of the sleepin' sav

[Stormy Night]

She loves that log thing she's curled up on. It started as a styrofoam log sold by lemax for those little ceramic Christmas towns. (I'm a part time craft store *****) It looked pretty real. So I cut a 'cave' hole in the side. She basks on top under her lamp and climbs inside at night to sleep now. Savvys are adorable. That long blue forked toung and those red orange eyes. Reptiles to me are like kittens to others.

[infernalis]

Reptiles to me are like kittens to others.


Last summer we had our Savannah out back in the meadow, he discovered a whole bunch of beetles and started feeding vigorously on them.

When it was time to bring him back in the house, the marks he left on my arm resembled that of a tiger kitten playing scratch post:eek:

99% of the time, he's a big dufus and just so lovable, that other 1% he's like a bipolar off meds.

[whoaxmary]

I adore the cabinet enclosure you built! It's awesome looking.

Welcome to the forum, as you see already there are lot's of female snake lovers here too. :) Keep the pictures coming, you have a stunning collection.

[Stormy Night]

I also have and breed black and brown widows. I have probably 30 of them..not counting all my babies about ready to hatch. I have a few pretty 'weird' collections :-)

[sickvenom]

I also have and breed black and brown widows. I have probably 30 of them..not counting all my babies about ready to hatch. I have a few pretty 'weird' collections :-)

Uh don't you have those all over your backyard, garage and sheds?

[Stormy Night]

Not really. Not in my area. Mine, who live in large apothecary jars All habitated out, in my kitchen are the only ones I've seen around me. I started with one and hatched babies a couple of years ago.

[stephanbakir]

If we didn't have a mild infestation of black widows in my area i might keep some they look really cool with the red hourglass.

[Stormy Night]

I've lived in other places around Florida and I was knee deep in widows. This past winter we had record freezes and I'm sure the local widow population took a hit.

[Stormy Night]

Loki, Loki's cabinet, Loki, Loki, & loki's cabinet. The lighting in my room sucks and the flash is to.....flashy. it was hard to get clear pics for some reason.

[marvelfreak]

Love the third pic Loki looks pure evil. I have a Jungle x Jag name Loki.

[Stormy Night]

He's pretty awesome. I'm not normally a corn/rat snake kinda girl. I'm more boa/python. He was my sons first snake and he's grown on me.

[stephanbakir]

They have a habit of doing that, all snakes do lol :P

[infernalis]

Loki, Loki's cabinet, Loki, Loki, & loki's cabinet. The lighting in my room sucks and the flash is too.....flashy. it was hard to get clear pics for some reason.


Try this, cut a small square of paper just big enough to cover the flash on your camera, use a little scotch tape to hold it down, be careful not to cover the focus sensor.

Presto you now have a flash diffuser for about a penny.

I also have some PAR lights that I turn on to act as photography lights, any reflector lamp will do, our local Home Depot just had a two pack of these for $4 on sale..

https://www.chooserenewables.com/xcart/images/P/23W-Par38-250.jpg

[Stormy Night]

I was just being lazy and didn't feel like pulling out my camera. I was using my phone. That may have been a part of the issue aswell.

[infernalis]

Ah I see now.

Every once in a while I like to put a towel on my kitchen table and I put the floodlights in the ceiling fan fixtures, it basks the whole table, then I do this.

(Gratuitous show off time.. ;) )


http://www.thamnophis.net/Gartersnakes/images/eating1.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/today/pinkiechomp.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/today/radixfood.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/today/SnowPinkie.jpg

[Stormy Night]

AWWWWWwwww! Cute! Looks like #2 is going to have to rethink his game.

[infernalis]

AWWWWWwwww! Cute! Looks like #2 is going to have to rethink his game.



He spun it around quite quick. Those guys are some of my most aggressive feeders. I just upped them to fuzzy mice, they were demanding 4-5 jumbo pinkies each before they stopped being "nippy"

It takes them longer to eat the bigger prey, but 1-2 fuzzies fills them up.

Same snake moments later... these guys are finger biters when they get hungry.

http://www.thamnophis.us/today/headon.jpg

[Stormy Night]

I'd love to know what the actual name is of the snakes all over my property. The closest thing I can find is a "common black snake" but I would think there's more to it than that. 4+ft long, black and shiny, white bellies. They seem pretty friendly. They will come right up to you and poke you with their face. I had a huge one shoot across my foot this morning. They move so fast its damn near impossible to get a picture.

[Stormy Night]

Here's a couple

[sickvenom]

I'd love to know what the actual name is of the snakes all over my property. The closest thing I can find is a "common black snake" but I would think there's more to it than that. 4+ft long, black and shiny, white bellies. They seem pretty friendly. They will come right up to you and poke you with their face. I had a huge one shoot across my foot this morning. They move so fast its damn near impossible to get a picture.

could be racers.

[infernalis]

Those pictures are of Black Rat snakes AKA Elaphe obsoleta.

They are only marginally feistier than a corn snake.

[sickvenom]

Here's a couple

those are too big for racers. look like rat snakes. they aren't always friendly.

[stephanbakir]

Almost looks like the whip snake i caught last time i was in Daytona, but its def a rat snake.

[Stormy Night]

That was my guess to. I love the ppl that come over, see them, panic, and scream WATER MOCCASIN! how ridiculous.

[sickvenom]

That was my guess to. I love the ppl that come over, see them, panic, and scream WATER MOCCASIN! how ridiculous.

Couple weeks ago I was at the river and this old guy was screaming about a water moc. It was a garter. We don't even have mocs here.

[stephanbakir]

My cousin has a few scarlet king snakes, his gf's dad is a science teacher at a highschool and he yelled out CORAL SNAKES when he walked into their house.
It's difficult to teach them how to tell one snake from another because their level of panic doesn't give them time to think

[whoaxmary]

It's difficult to teach them how to tell one snake from another because their level of panic doesn't give them time to think

Ain't that true~
Makes me think of a conversation I had with a friend about hognoses. They completely paniced and thought I was crazy and going to get a bunch of hots because I said hognoses were adorable and I wouldn't mind one at one point of time.
Oh, and of corse they are people that try to tell my my ball python will be 70 feet long and eat me whole. lol.

[sickvenom]

Ain't that true~
Makes me think of a conversation I had with a friend about hognoses. They completely paniced and thought I was crazy and going to get a bunch of hots because I said hognoses were adorable and I wouldn't mind one at one point of time.
Oh, and of corse they are people that try to tell my my ball python will be 70 feet long and eat me whole. lol.

Well hogs are venomous, but still......

[stephanbakir]

Did you ever see the video of that guy and the non venomous false water cobra, he let it chew on him for 5 minutes rofl.
Nothing funnier then an "expert" letting a rear fanged mildly venomous snake chew on him and saying "i hope its not venomous"

[Stormy Night]

Random picture dump

[sickvenom]

heehee. you said 'dump.'

[stephanbakir]

Whats that furry lil guy

[infernalis]

heehee. you said 'dump.'

http://www.halen.com/images/uploads/butthead6.gif

[sickvenom]

http://www.halen.com/images/uploads/butthead6.gif


that's exactly what i was going for. what, are we like 13 years old?

[stephanbakir]

Mental and physical ages are rarely in sync

[Stormy Night]

Its a squirrel. Had to bottle feed it every 3 hours. Which is alot harder than you'd think. This ones name is hemi.

[infernalis]

heehee. you said 'dump.'

that's exactly what i was going for. what, are we like 13 years old?


Have a mouse in your pocket??

[Stormy Night]

Fidget and tweak. (Squirrels). Hemi all grown up and refusing to leave. 6 months later and I still get ambushed when I go outside.
Con shaking "hands" with a sting ray.
con and a couple of rescued rattlers.

[sickvenom]

are those rattlers yours? edb?

[stephanbakir]

Sting rays are pretty cool, we swam with some in cuba