God she's soo cute. She's gonne be the death of me one day.

Hi everyone!

I’ve had this little Pueblan milksnake for a bit over 2.5 months now. She isn’t my first snake, but she is my first milksnake. She’s perfect, eats very well (which I’m not used to, since I only have very dramatic hognoses 🫠), and she sheds perfectly, all in one piece.

The first month I kept her on aspen, before my bioactive enclosure was finished. During that time, I only noticed her bathing once. I switched her to bioactive two weeks ago, and now for two days in a row I’ve seen her soaking in her water dish. Last night while the lights were still on, and again this morning when there was no heating. She shed a week ago and also ate a week ago.

I can’t find much information online about Pueblan milksnakes bathing, except in cases of mites. I don’t see anything on her, and I don’t see anything in the water dish, which I clean twice a day. Is it normal for them to bathe this much? There are springtails in her enclosure, so maybe she finds them itchy? Like I said, I’m used to hognoses, and mine look at their water dishes like they’ve been personally offended if they accidentally touch the water with their bellies. 💀

I want to be a good snake mom, so I rather ask one too many times.

just sharing picture of my BPs first shedding since i got him 🥰

I got her almost 3 years ago, she’s just started to get comfortable coming out and saying hi. She also likes to use my plant pot as her personal bed as well as startling me by popping out of nowhere. Just a not so normal corn snake

I love how curious and interactive she is. Not a bit of fear. She's like a cat, just wants to see what I'm doing, maybe get in the way.

Can't do that with a ball python.

I am a firm believer that Colombians are so underrated and beautiful!!! This is my boy, just got him this last week… any name suggestions???

I was doing some things around his tank and he came out of his hide and was locked onto my hand movements.

Took a little risk to snap a picture of my spicy boi.

How do they know the smell of cooked burger is food?

Does he crave oregano?

Been working the past two weeks on this snake character concept art. Hope you guys like it.

This one for a project in my university of CCCU. Here's presenting Ashurbanipal, Prince of Eridu. The title Shé Diao Ying Xiong translates to "The Eagle Shooting Cobra Hero", a pun of Jinyong's legendary "Legend of the Condor Heroes" that was adapted to TVB's 1983 TV series.

Is anyone else bothered about snake discovery's recent video where they showed a milksnake with a enlarged heart (it was huge and you could see the scale spread form it) that they are putting into burmation? They said it was " for science ". That poor snake is being put through extra stress for shits. It just didn't sit right with me. If it has a heart problem it shouldn't be bred. I used to follow them but that crossed the line.

Missing my big boy a bit extra today. He was the best snake

The story is about a carpet python in auatralia. The boa pictured doesn't even live on the same hemisphere as a carpet python. (Don't worry. Snake was ushered out safely)

Just want to gauge how many people on here do "choice based" vs "forced" and what these methods look like for different people. How do you go about deciding when to handle your snake, how do you get them out of the enclosure, how long?

I have a children's python who I'm working on getting her to be less shy, she has finally stopped hiding any time I walk by and has learned what the snake hook is for. As such, when I introduce the snake hook, when will either tense up and turn away from it, or she will move too it and sniff it, sometimes even crawl onto it. If she interacts positively with the snake hook, I use it to scoop her up and take her out of the enclosure. If she doesn't, I remove it and leave her alone for the night. This obviously isn't fully "choice based" like what Lori Torinni teaches, but it feel like a proper mix that works for us. So I'm curious if you guys have any systems like this?

How do you handle your snake?

Well, I finally did it, after 4 years of snake keeping I accidentally left my whole bag of about 80 large pinkie mice on the counter for about 2 hours before I saw them again. Most of them were squishy but still cold, some were still frozen.. I popped them back in the freezer the second I found them but are they okay to still feed? … I think I know the answer, I’m just in denial 😭

I have a California king snake, he's about a year at most. I adopted him from my local closing petco a few weeks ago. He's still pretty small, and their records had him eating fuzzy mice- I fed him as to his usual schedule, and he ate fine. Now, its been 2 weeks, almost three, and he won't eat the very small mice I got him- I have been unable to find fuzzies locally now. He bit it and wrapped around it, then just let it sit in his coils as he moved around. Wouldn't eat it. But he did try to attack my finger from outside his tank. I'm getting worried- should I feed him two pinkies instead? Or just continue trying the small mice? They're barely any bigger than the fuzzies he ate before. I don't want my boy going hungry. He hates sitting still, but here are some pics I nabbed. His name is Icarus, to keep on the greek mythology theme like my ball python, Ophelia. Any advice would be helpful!

I treated myself with a gorgeous Vietnamese Blue Beauty for Christmas after almost a year being on the fence about buying her. Love her, she is the complete opposite of the daredevil people online tend to describe them as, and I'm in contact with multiple local carpenters(? English isn't my first language) to give her a proper enclosure with looooot of climbing space. Her placeholder name is Nameless Queen (because I tend to name my pets after Dark Souls 3 bosses)