u/thearroyotoad

Thanks for your help!

I have about 10 not-necessarily-great meg teeth that I have collected over a bunch of scuba trips, and of which I am very fond. I would like to tell you about them. Here is the fifth one.

This tooth is ~2.5" long. It has a little cluster of barnacles over the center of the root. It's like a corsage or something. I could scrape them off and clean it up, and there might even be a nice tooth under there. But something about the barnacles really calls out to me, so I'm leaving it in its natural state.

I have about 10 not-necessarily-great meg teeth that I have collected over a bunch of scuba trips, and of which I am very fond. I would like to tell you about them. Here is the fourth one.

This is a very worn 2.75" tooth. The front is very smooth. The back is rough, and has a sharp ledge down near the point that is out of character with the rest of the tooth. It is an indelicate tooth, with chunks taken out of the serrations here and there, but I still love it.

I have about 10 not-necessarily-great meg teeth that I have collected over a bunch of scuba trips, and of which I am very fond. I would like to tell you about them. Here is the third one.

This meg is a wild card. It is small, about 1.5". It looks like it could be beautiful if I cleaned it, but the pink coralline algae is beautiful too, so I'm leaving it. I wonder how long it takes to get a solid coat of coralline algae on a tooth?

I have about 10 not-necessarily-great meg teeth that I have collected over a bunch of scuba trips, and of which I am very fond. I would like to tell you about them. Here is the second one.

This one is on the smaller side, about 1.75". It is missing a chunk of root, and is missing some enamel on the crown. But the missing enamel and the bourlette make three lovely spokes running from the center to the three vertices of the triangle defined by the tooth. (Or, actually, the triangle that would be defined if there weren't a chunk of root missing.) It looks like it has some feeding damage on the back of the point. There are some pleasantly sharp bits near the tip, and the edges are sharp, but nothing you can hurt yourself with. And it's very much a black-and-white tooth; all black, with some coralline algae accents in the grooves.

Thank you for sharing my appreciation of its imperfections.

I have about 10 not-necessarily-great meg teeth that I have collected over a bunch of scuba trips, and of which I am very fond. I would like to tell you about them. Here is the first one. It is about 2.5 inches long. It is very rough; the root, bourlette, and enamel are so worn that they flow into each other. A chunk of the root is missing. The whole tooth has subtle surface texture, but there are no sharp spots that snag on my fingers when I'm holding it. It is a testament to the beauty of imperfection.

It's supposed to go the other way, so an intruder can't reach through and unhook it as easily.

I think my favorite thing about our heroes is that they are nice to Marty. They go to see his dance quintet, you know, his cycle. They don't make fun of him to his face or behind his back. Walter even wears a suit! They do talk during the performance a bit, but broadly, they came out to show support for Marty in the spirit in which he wanted: to give him notes.

Hello, we got a corn snake yesterday, and my kid really really wants to hold it. We know you're not supposed to hold them right off the bat, and have read you're supposed to wait a week or even longer. We're trying to hold off, but we're having a hard time understanding the rationale. Are there scientific studies that have been done where they bite X% more, a year from now, for each day less than a week, etc., or is it just sort of broad guidance based on long-time corn snake owner intuition? Any guidance that would help us either a) understand why we need to hold off, or b) feel better about holding it now, would be very welcome! Thanks in advance!