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Breeding season is in full swing here and we’ve got a lot going on this month with the holidays so I’m afraid we won’t be posting a whole lot but please feel free to continue asking questions if you need advice or just want to shoot the breeze. It might take a while to come back to you but I’m trying to check once a week at least
Reptile cleaning, feeding and interaction. 48 hour work week. My sister's wedding. NanoFuckingWriMo. I've been taking photos of cleanups and snakey activities but GUYS I DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO BROWSE TUMBLR. So that is how keeping a massive reptile collection and trying to still have a life works. You can't get 5 damn minutes to upload photos to your computer to post on a stupid blog. I'M SO SORRY. I will rectify this. In about a month probably.
In the process of cleaning vivariums and rubs yesterday, one of my bigger females who is on schedule to breed this season, decided to tell me it was time. Now, normally I would try to cool to encourage this and start considering starting to pair in mid November time depending on the individual females etc. Yesterday, as I was cleaning bowls and moving from a males tank to hers, she made it very clear she wanted access and now. Evidently picking up on male pheromones, she began tail wagging to "entice" the nearby male. Sorry sweetie, you're just not my type. However, as I knew who her intended partner was for this season, despite him not having been cooled yet, I thought I'd try my luck and leave them to it for a few nights. Once he was in there, within about 30 minutes, she had "scented" a huge portion of the tub. As a keeper, my instinct is CLEAN IT. But royals? They like it messy and during breeding season, it doesn't matter how offten you clean it, if a male and female are in there for any length of time, someone is going to end up covered in excrement. And so, it was left. This afternoon, my two first timers are in together and all locked up. This is one of 3 very exciting clutches we're trying for this season. Wish us luck!
We do everything on a schedule here to ensure all of our animals receive appropriate care, no one gets neglected and the workload stays even so it's never one overwhelming day of DO ALL THE THINGS. Each one of those boxes, represents more than one animal and a list of different tasks. Spot the day off! (Pro tip, there isn't one)
This does NOT include;
Spot checking;
The day to day checks of every single animal to ensure no one has soiled anything or is going into shed, which accompanies
Changing the water;
Going through every single animal's cage, emptying out old water, cleaning the bowl, refilling it.
Check for 'surprises' such as those left by this guy who chose to demonstrate his 'maturity' by emptying his hemipenes straight into the water bowl (I am not talking about pee here...).
Cleanouts;
Anyone who HAS soiled their setup needs to have it cleaned out and substrate replaced. If 'spot removal' is used with substrate, the area of removal needs to be a minimum of 8 inches in diameter (varies on species and size) with the solid as the centre point of reference. Those tiny pythons produce a lot of fluid along with their solid urates.
Shed setups;
We don't provide a humid hide ALL the time for most of our animals as they all have bowls big enough to bathe in, so anyone showing signs of going into shed gets a completely fresh humid hide setup for them.
Temperature and humidity checks;
Every day, every tub/tank/viv gets temp and humidity checked, both cool and hot ends at least twice a day.
Below is a couple of shots from our brazilian rainbow boa setups.
Ahhhh, just right.
And what's this?!
Spot the super sneaky snake preview!
And of course, every single month you get to receive a nice fresh package of everyone's favourite chow!
The above was just a quick top up as with breeding season coming up, our ladies are famished and eating everything in sight!
A month in the life of a collector. How does your month look?
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I have been in work for 4 days, 12 hours a day, back to back
Man, I'm sure glad that's over. I can't wait to kick back and relax, play some videogames? Watch some TV? ...clean up a whole bunch of poop.
Again.
Here is Tesla exploring his new digs after I pulled everything and gave him a complete cleanout.
And here is Tarzan, the angriest little snake in the world. She's going into shed which is why she looks so dark. She's actually a really bright silver normally. Her new larger water bowl is arriving tomorrow with any luck as she's due an upgrade!
Unlike some of my other royal pythons, Sephia is not kept on the cage-lining, bio-degradeable, hyperabsorbent material I like to use but instead on a mix of cypress mulch and coco husk. Why? Because she permanently starves herself otherwise. Nice.
This is a shot of Alice the ghost boa returning to her favourite hiding spot in her nicely filled 32ltr rub after literally every last thing has been cleaned. She managed to poop directly on both plans, smear it on all the hides and then swim around to clean off in the water bowl.
She will not be in this for much longer. Early next year, we're having the boa's adult vivariums built.
Kato, returning to his own 32ltr post cleanout. False perspective makes this look tiny for him but I think that's partially because of where the big cork hide is sitting. He's actually about 400g smaller than alice these days.
We haven't decided on permanent dimensions for the vivs yet but i'm thinking 6ft x 3ftx 4ft with some kind of shelving/platforms built in to give them a range of places to explore/rest as they get bigger.
Liara being mad because she's still in her quarantine setup. I like to keep them in quarantine for at least 6 months, however, the main reason she's in quarantine still is because this is actually a pretty decent size viv for her as she's growing slowly and she is doing very well.
Other than the time this lot took, I spent an additional hour checking everyone for signs of going into shed and ensuring those who are coming into it have a suitable moist hide available.
No one due for a feed tonight and I'm still sick so here's some photos of a couple of babes post total clean out. Mir, the lesser has just finished shedding. Marcy, the super pastel orange ghost is just starting.
Snake people of tumblr; in your opinion, for you how many pet snakes is too many pet snakes? How many snakes do you currently own? And how many snakes do you plan on owning?
Today is the day of my first post to this blog and honestly, i'm not entirely certain how to go about this in a way that's interesting because this is pretty much a blog about animal maintenance.
Animal keeping is fun. Animal maintenance is not.
I woke up this morning with the absolute worst migraine i've had for a long time, so animal care was not the first thing on my mind I hauled myself out of bed and spent the next 2 hours in a room that was way hotter than I could cope with.
I think i'm probably sick or something.
"But Ray, if you're unwell, surely you should take the time to recover. Your animals can last a day or two without constant monitoring, right?"
So here is the thing about keeping a collection of animals and will be the primary point I will be making, reiterating and reinforcing.
The work never stops.
If you enjoy keeping a reptile because they are low maintenance pets, it's very easy to think "This takes so little time on a day to day basis, I bet I could have a MILLION" but rest assured, this is flawed logic.
I could given that I am unwell, ask my partner to shoulder -all- the work today, but I live by the rule of don't ignore it. If you see it and it needs solving, do it now. If that's a tipped over water bowl with substrate that needs replacing or someone's just laid out a fresh one, it needs to be sorted now. Ignoring it once, very easily leads to ignoring it twice, which with a large collection rapidly leads to neglect.
When you have a collection, procrastination is never acceptable.
My first task of the day was cleaning out water bowls. I don't use disposables so this is a case of dumping the water, dowsing the bowls in f10, wiping down and drying then replacing with completely fresh water.
This process today, took two hours. That's two hours of mind numbing, monotonous work. This happens, every day.
Now, in the process of cleaning the bowls, you are undoubtedly going to find that someone has just made your day by emptying their bowels for you or having hidden away their dinner from last night instead of eating it. With our current setup for the majority of our animals, this requires a complete cleanout, removal of any hides or decoration and everything being dowsed in f10, dried, wiped out etc. etc. etc.
Whenever an animal's cleaned out, we also weigh them as they're usually empty and this gives us a good base line on which to monitor them.
Feeding doesn't happen until later tonight when it's nice and dark, so i'll need to start preparing food for the ones due feeding shortly. Some will be offered food, the majority won't.
In order to try and balance SOME of the work and make sure that we're never completely overwhelmed, every animal is fed and held/exercised on a schedule, carefully planned to meet their individual needs.
Luckily, given my physical condition right now, tonight is a 'night off' (never scheduled, just once in a blue moon, it falls that way) and of the 4 due to be fed, one of them is also in shed, so we won't waste food offering it to her (she, specifically, will outright ignore it).
Well, this was a long post. I'm going to tie it off here with a pretty snake who just finished shedding out this morning and some weights!
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