Sassy

Sassy one of our crazy cats, has found the wonder that is a moving snake in a tank.

she will sit happily on my bed watching Sparky and the kids in there vivs. 

Boots on the other hand runs away when i bring them down. Last month Boots met JD and got very spooked out by him. now he wont play with his string. (Crazy cats!!)

New viv

JD's early bday present (not till February) was a bigger tank for him, new bachelor pad to call his own. I got it of Ebay for £60, 4ft long and 2ft wide. nice big house for him.

as i am short of funds being Xmas, i will get him some new furniture in the new year. he needs a new cave and plants to make his house a bit more attractive. 

Sparky has now moved into JD's old place with the kids.

The kids are in there own small tub house and growing bigger by the day.

Brumination

Last week i turned of the light to Angel and JD's Viv's. This is step 1 of there brumination.

Next week i am going to pull the plug on the heating as well. I will then keep them as cool as possible untill mid febuary when i can turn on the heat and slowly wake them up with lots of light. 

Thats the plan anyway. 

I accidentally woke Angel up changing her water and got a nasty nip on my hand. (wont be doing that again in a hurry.)

Brumination

Hey hey, its been a while.

Update-

Quicksilver and Indiana are doing fine, eating well and shedding.

Sparky celebrated his 1st birthday on 18th of november, had the little guy a year now, he is not so little anymore, but still has a long way to go untill he is the size of Angel.

JD is doing really well, being a typical male and spends most of his time sleeping in his log.

Angel has put the weight she lost when she had her babies and is now ready for Brumination.

Brumination is a Herp word for hibernation.

So i have started to turn the lights off until the middle of december when i switch the heat off to.

This helps make the snakes feel that its winter and will hibernate.

This process make them more fertile for next years breeding season. 

After a few months i will turn the heat and lights on.

feed them up and start breeding again.

New names

I have named my baby snakes.

The normal is called Indiana & the Anery is called Quicksilver

1st meal

Indiana ate his 1st pinkie, after shedding on friday. 

Quicksilver has not shed yet, he didn't want his pinkie so i will try again in a couple of days.

Pics of my Baby snakes

Here are the little guys!!

I kept 2 of them. hope to sell them in a couple weeks.

All done hatching

All my eggs have hatched.

There are 4 baby snakes in total.

2 Anery &

2 Normals

The 5th egg never hatched, it was a bit black and mouldy. which is odd as one of the baby snakes hatched from a black egg. have to keep an eye on him.

I am keeping 2 of them and the serpentarium is keeping the other 2.

The little guys or girls are coming home on tuesday.

will post pics.

2 out of 3 so far, there first pics

Hey hey, good news.

2 out of 3 have emerged, another is on the way!!

First pics of my new babies.

I think they are normals, take after there dad JD.

Hatching

The big day has arrived. 

The snakes are starting to hatch!!

A couple of the eggs have split, and a head has popped out.

I will give them a couple of days to emerge fully before taking pictures.

Its best to leave them alone when they start emerging from there eggs, dont want to scare them. 

Any day now!!!

Hey the end is near.

5 months since it started and the eggs are nearly ready to hatch.

They are due in a day, so its very soon.

lost eggs.

poor eggs, now gone from 7 down to 5. 2 of them are questionable!! so i am looking at 3. poor snakes, there is always a chance tho!!

Not long now

Woo. 2 months of waiting, the big day is less then 3 weeks away. 

The eggs are due to hatch at the end of september. woo.

If you are interested in a corn snake hatchling please contact me at:

Rjorca22@hotmail.co.uk

only a few to sell so its first come first serve. sorry.

Angel shedding her skin.

Angel shed her skin today and decided it would be fun to explore it. she managed to crawl back up the skin. i had to tear a hole so she could get back out. silly snake.

Egg update

Half way there. The eggs are now 4 weeks into the incubation.
only 4 weeks left.

Update

After further inspection of the eggs, we have counted 7 good ones.

Its about 3 weeks into there incubation.

All snakes are well, Angel and JD have both eaten a small rat. Sparky did not want his dinner, so i will try in a few days!

Eggs

Not good news today.

A few of the eggs have gone bad.

Fingers crossed for the rest!

Shedding

Cool, all the snakes are shedding there skin.

Angel is in her post lay shed.

JD is starting to show signs.

Sparky will shed any day!

Eggs are all well!

Angel and her 1st ever clutch of eggs. The big white ones are fertile and the small brown ones are infertile.
There is a total of 11 good eggs in a incubator. Only 58 days left till they hatch!

My Snakes Sparky, JD & Angel.

My new Blog page!

Welcome to RJ's Blog

For all the fans of my snakes.

I will post pics, news & updates from the slithery world of my 3 snakes.

Enjoy!!