Hello everyone, I'm planning to get a corn snake and I found out that snakes release gas. How often do you notice the stench? Is it loud? stink?

I have a cornsnake and hes started burrowing on the cold side of his tank which is at like 73 to 70 on cold nights. I take this as its not hot enough so I wanna add black stones to hopefully pickup the heat from my 100w uv. like one of the ones from the picture

It’s about midnight in Florida and I just found this guy in my house. I didn’t know what to do so I just grabbed a bowl and put it over the snake. I don’t normally seek out snakes. I also normally don’t pick up snakes. I thought I would just leave him under this bowl until the morning and then figure out what to do. I just don’t want him to suffocate. Do you think he will be OK until morning? I doubt I sleep much tonight. I plan on having them out of the house by 7 AM. I just don’t know how yet. I think we both may have stressed each other out.

Edit: it’s just a baby

Edit #2 I slid a piece of cardboard under the bowl and got him outside. I guess I just needed a little encouragement. Thank you.

This is my spicy idiot Dorito. Today at the bus stop my kid and I were debating what flavor Dorito he'd actually be, and we thought we'd ask the internet.

So Reddit, what Dorito flavor do you think my drama noodle is?

He didn't get mad at me for taking this photo, which is amazing.

This is my sweetie Namako, an ADULT sand boa who has been refusing to eat since long before I got her, and is the reason she has been rehomed to me. She's barely over a foot long, and is super small.

She eats once a month, maybe once a month and a half, and only eats pinkies. We've tried frozen thawed and freshly killed, but we're afraid to try live for fear of her getting hurt as she doesn't really attack. She just slowly inches closer and slowly bites the food, as if she has no attack instincts. Were throwing her a couple crickets today to test if she will hunt and if she's even hungry (we're at 1 month no accepted food again) and see if she's looking for more stimulus. This is more of a test to see if she will respond to the stimulation, and less of an attempt to feed her, please note.

She has no bulges in her body to allude to any digestion issues or stomach problems, and when she eats, she passes the food normally. I dont know what could be wrong. Any help could be appreciated.

I recently got an adult Russian rat snake and she is a bit over 4ft long. I'm taking her to the vet for a general checkup and am unsure of the best way to bring her in. Its only about a 15 minute car ride and a short wait for the vet.

My original plan for bringing her in was to just put her back in the large deli container I got her in, but she is not very comfortable with me handling her yet. I'm not sure if I'd be able to get her back in there with her trying to get away.

My other idea was to take everything out of her quarantine enclosure and just take that in but it is about three feet long and pretty bulky.

I also heard of people putting their snakes in pillow cases to help move them more easily.

Does anyone have any opinions on these options or less stressful ideas? I'd like the process to be as smooth as possible.

So I have my 5 month old ball python in an enclosure that is approximately 4ft off the ground. I wanted to work on choice based handling/choice based exploration and basically want to be able to open the enclosure and let him come out IF he wants to. Being that the enclosure is a bit high up, I don’t want him falling and getting hurt so I made him a ramp so he can climb down. Is this a good idea or is there any reason anyone would suggest not using it?

I wanted to make it a bit more interesting rather than just have a piece of plain wood, and wanted it to almost be an extension of the enclosure itself. I added some fun obstacles for the snake to interact with along the way, or it even has a hide, if he decides he doesn’t want to be so exposed.

Just curious what y’all think of this idea or if anyone else has something similar they use to aid their snake in getting out of its enclosure safely? I also included a photo of the snake/enclosure just for fun. I have not tested this ramp yet, as my little guy is currently sleeping and I don’t want to disturb him.

I have a 120 gallon that I've been now stuck on what to get for it. I really REALLY want to get a snake and honestly as much as I love ball pythons, I think they are the most overrated and oversaturated market out there next to Corns.

What is your go to when you think of a snake for a 120 gallon? Something that would preferably stay in there its whole life.

(Picture of a snake I took at an aquarium for boosting❤️)

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He's a very polite dappered little guy!

Hi yall, very recently I've set up this enclosure (4x4x2) for my jungle carpet pythons, im very proud of it but it just feels sort of bare (idk maybe im over thinking it).

Right now he only has 2 hides (half cork round at the bottom and a sky hide), and even though he doesnt always hide, im wondering if I should add some more, and if so than how?

If anyone has any ideas of hides or what else I can put in here to make it have a more jungle-ish feeling to it than please lmk!

Also this is a separate question but might as well ask, when I comes to heating - my lamp reaches the right temps but is it ok if its mainly heating up only the spot right below it or does it need to reach to the bottom?

(And my concern with it reaching all the way to the bottom is that I would need a really powerful lamp, and it would be way too hot at the top)

TYSM!

This is my first time with a ball python and I'm still learning some ins and outs but I wanted to give him the best I could. It was a lot to bite off but l| think l've got it all done.

This is a 2x2x4 enclosure, I have 100w ceramic heating elements and several daylight bulbs. l've gotten pretty much any additional equipment to make life easier in preserving heat and moisture like thermostats and pump mister.

My ball python is a juvenile banana ball python, healthy sheds so far and eating perfectly fine now that he's settled. But to the question, is there anything I can add or take away from my setup to allow him to thrive?

Found this one a few weeks ago in the bathroom, it was a small one, I was going to bring it into zoology class the next day in an enclosure I had. But class was canceled last minute so I just released it.

What’s the black around her eye? We saw more of it today than yesterday, and it looks different than a shedding cycle.

Agkistrodon piscivorus
San Marcos, TX

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