This one (http://thefabweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/363.jpg) looks remarkably like my girl, Hygieia. A little blue never kept her from a meal, either.
You have a corn named Hygieia? I think that is awesome and that you are too.
My Eve is the same way about meals, though. She'll eat morning, noon, or night, hot weather or cold, in blue or out of it. She's such a great eater, not picky at all, even when swapping feeder species, and as happily as she attacks rodents, she never nips at fingers. The only time she goes off her food is for those few weeks in February/March when for some strange reason, now that she's three and a certain weight, she starts literally climbing the walls. ;)
Aww, thanks! Her name was Asclepius until I figured out she was a girl.
Hygieia likes to climb the walls on occasion too. At first I was worried she might escape, as her terrarium lid is ill-fitting (though weighed down with several large medical textbooks), but my cat tends to jump up on top to watch when she does that (even though I try to keep her off - I'm not home or awake all the time!). Hygieia usually gives up when Verbena is there.
Eve is a pretty sweet name for a snake. I almost bought a snake from a girl named Eden (the girl, not the snake!), which I thought was hilarious.
The second one down, then then two near the end (One eating a frog while on a tree, the other directly below coming off a bamboo pole, looking dead at the camera) are asian vine snakes, just like my 3 newest babies (who I can't stop talking about). Most gorgeous species ever, IMHO.
Thanks for these. Several are now in rotation as my desktop background.
Thank you for pointing that out! I managed to identify a lot of the snakes in the photos -- an Indian cobra, two corns, a few ball pythons, a bunch of emerald tree boas, an African horned viper, what looks like a black milk snake, and so on -- but I had no idea what those were. I'm really happy to have learned! :D
I've bred corns for the past 3 years, and love those babies, too, but the Asian Vines have a special place in my heart. They're the first snake I've gotten outside of the colubrid-beginner-level snake, and require a lot of difficult care conditions, but I'm happy to be able to say after 4 months with me that they've been thriving. I waited 14 years between getting my first snake (a little Cali king) and bringing these home to make sure I had enough experience, but they were worth the wait. They're diurnal and curious, and love interacting with me. The pose of the one on the bamboo is typical of the ones I have while they watch me play on my computer (purposely set right next to their tank).
The one with the fly on it's head right above the one with the frog may be a hatchling asian vine snake, or may not be. Not really enough detail for me to tell.
The highlighter-green one with the head of a corn (right below the heron eating) is a variety of Thai rat snake, and probably the next species I'll attempt, as soon as I have $800 to blow on an animal (i.e. when hell freezes over). A lot of the asian colubrid-type (same general look and care, but not inter-breedable with N.A. colubrids) are stunning, not very well studied, and ridiculously expensive. Doesn't mean I don't lust after them. There's another that's glossy black on top and bright yellow on bottom with an open mouth that I only know is some form of asian rat snake, but can't narrow down further.
I also spotted several rattlesnakes (characteristic wedge-shaped head), an albino reticulated python (directly above the might-be-a-baby-ASV-with-a-fly-on-it's-head), a sand boa (right above a lemon yellow colubrid-looking animal that's probably also from asia) and the stunning hallowe'en phase Amazon Tree Boa that's the first in the series. Despite that, there are a few I'll be dragging copies of down to my Friendly Local Reptile Store for help identifying.
I'm not that up on my milk snakes, can you tell me which is the black milk snake?
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Date: 2012-06-08 05:08 am (UTC)My Eve is the same way about meals, though. She'll eat morning, noon, or night, hot weather or cold, in blue or out of it. She's such a great eater, not picky at all, even when swapping feeder species, and as happily as she attacks rodents, she never nips at fingers. The only time she goes off her food is for those few weeks in February/March when for some strange reason, now that she's three and a certain weight, she starts literally climbing the walls. ;)
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Date: 2012-06-09 01:36 pm (UTC)Hygieia likes to climb the walls on occasion too. At first I was worried she might escape, as her terrarium lid is ill-fitting (though weighed down with several large medical textbooks), but my cat tends to jump up on top to watch when she does that (even though I try to keep her off - I'm not home or awake all the time!). Hygieia usually gives up when Verbena is there.
Eve is a pretty sweet name for a snake. I almost bought a snake from a girl named Eden (the girl, not the snake!), which I thought was hilarious.
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Date: 2012-06-08 03:58 am (UTC)Thanks for these. Several are now in rotation as my desktop background.
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Date: 2012-06-08 07:07 am (UTC)The one with the fly on it's head right above the one with the frog may be a hatchling asian vine snake, or may not be. Not really enough detail for me to tell.
The highlighter-green one with the head of a corn (right below the heron eating) is a variety of Thai rat snake, and probably the next species I'll attempt, as soon as I have $800 to blow on an animal (i.e. when hell freezes over). A lot of the asian colubrid-type (same general look and care, but not inter-breedable with N.A. colubrids) are stunning, not very well studied, and ridiculously expensive. Doesn't mean I don't lust after them. There's another that's glossy black on top and bright yellow on bottom with an open mouth that I only know is some form of asian rat snake, but can't narrow down further.
I also spotted several rattlesnakes (characteristic wedge-shaped head), an albino reticulated python (directly above the might-be-a-baby-ASV-with-a-fly-on-it's-head), a sand boa (right above a lemon yellow colubrid-looking animal that's probably also from asia) and the stunning hallowe'en phase Amazon Tree Boa that's the first in the series. Despite that, there are a few I'll be dragging copies of down to my Friendly Local Reptile Store for help identifying.
I'm not that up on my milk snakes, can you tell me which is the black milk snake?