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Hello! I have come from the ~outside~ to see if this community (or its members) are still active? I got into the reptile-keeping hobby a year ago (exactly, in fact; today is my crestie's gotcha day) and would love to have a place to exchange pictures, stories, enrichment ideas, advice...

Now some photos so I'm not just nagging without giving you something interesting in exchange...

( A crestie! )

( A leopard!! )

roeskva

People generally think of snakes as not being social creatures at all, but that may not be true. I found these very interesting articles and other texts that I want to share with you guys:

Rattlesnakes Show Strong Family Bonds, Study Says
Sociable Rattlers Cuddle With Their Kin
Rattlesnakes' rich social lives
How can you cuddle without arms? Social Behavior in Snakes
Python maternal care - discussions
Serpent First: Egg-Laying Snakes Care for Young
Life is Short, but Snakes are Long (Vipers, Pythons, King Cobras. As well as other snakes that have some parental care)
Study Shows Snakes, Thought to Be Solitary Eaters, Coordinate Hunts
Coordinated Hunting by Cuban Boas (full article of above)

Other periferically relevant (but interesting) texts:

roeskva

Hi guys!

I just realized nothing had happened in this comm for years, so I decided to post a few of the pics my boyfriend and I have taken in ZOOs. Unfortunately, some of the pictures were taken 3-4 years ago, and I have neglected to write down the species. Maybe you can help me?

First a couple pictures of a snake that I believe to be a Great Basin Rattlesnake:
( Read more... )
Then follows a definite Rosy Boa:
( Read more... )
Carpet Pythons (one with a butterfly on the back) Not sure of the second, but think that's a carpet python too.
( Read more... )
Not sure what type this is. Python of some kind. Was living together with the carpet pythons in the big open area you can walk through in "Randers Regnskov":
( Read more... )
Possibly spotted python:
( Read more... )
Possibly Rubber Boas, but probably not ;)
( Read more... )
This is possibly a Rainbow Boa:
( Read more... )
I have no guesses on the following:
( Read more... )
Crocodiles. Black Caimans:
( Read more... )

roeskva

Vipera berus is the common European adder or common European viper. This picture was taken by Jonas Arvidsson - a member of our local herpetology society, and I thought people would enjoy it here. It's a real photo, not a manip - the adders come out of hibernation while there are still snow on the ground (in Umeå, in late March), and in sunny weather they crawl through the snow to find rocks they can sun themselves on. They live as far north as at least 150 kilometer north of the polar circle (where the adders are twice the size of what they are further south!)

debbiecakes

Hi everyone,

My name is Deb and I'm new to dreamwidth. I live in Sydney, Australia. (In Australia, a person needs a special license to own reptiles.) I'd really like to get my hands on a snake ~~but I keep putting off the paperwork for the license~~ and purchasing a snake because of cost factors. It's not that I can't afford it but I find it hard to justify spending over $200 (License+Snake) on myself. Lol.

Buuuuut somebody has a birthday in Juuuuune. ;)

Update: I've just submitted the application for a reptile license. It takes 21 days to process but I'm that much closer to owning a snake! :D

Current Mood: bored

roeskva

Hi!

Since the community has been kind of quiet, I thought I would post a few pictures of our ball pythons, Kiya and Zazamoukh.

( pictures )

pinkadot89

New member here! I do love reptiles and would love to have a snake one day, but for now I just have three Russian Tortoises. You can meet them under the cut...

( Mr.Emma, Bubbles, and Moose... )

roeskva

( Our ball pythons - and hi! )

roeskva

Finally got myself together to say hi and write a little about our ball pythons and post a few pictures :)

( Ramblings - and pictures! )

yvi

What do you feed your reptiles?

For my gecko, I currently breed meal worms, stick insects, and grasshoppers, and occasionally buy crickets. She gets about three to four grasshoppers/crickets and a few meal worms throughout the week.

lexi

( One more photo... )

lexi

Thought I would share this with those who can properly appreciate it... I am SO HAPPY right now ~ Sal (our 2 year old Bearded Dragon we recently rescued) just took a HUGE poop! I was getting worried because we got him on the 23rd and he hadn't pooped yet. I've had an ache in my stomach that has worsened with each passing day that we weren't seeing any. Baths are supposed to help and we did two of those over the course of the last few days and belly massages... nothing. Then out of nowhere he got really active and when we went in to check, sure enough... a huge poop! Funny how he poops and *my* stomach ache goes away! lmao - it's hard to be a mom when your kids can't talk and you have to just go by what goes in and what comes out... lol. Now we both feel better! =)

lexi

I'm a Bearded Dragon mom and fellow lizard lover :) I've created a community for Bearded Dragon owners called

beardies, and have linked this community on the profile page. I hope no one minds the promo (if this is against the rules, please remove with my apologies).

yvi

Hi, I am Yvi and I have one leopard gecko called River at the moment. Only one because I have received conflicting test results for cryptosporids back and so I don't want to risk introducing more geckos.

Anyway, I have just posted pictures here: http://yvi.dreamwidth.org/59312.html

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Interesting articles about snakes, parental care, social lives, and cooperation :)

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Vipera Berus pic

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introducing Crowley, our Frilled Dragon....

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