r/hognosesnakes

My WH has never played dead in her life (8ish months old). She’ll definitely flatten herself and hiss but doesn’t play dead at all and I feel like I’m missing out on the most memorable experience of having one 🤣

Does anyone else’s hoggy not do their normal characteristics??

Here’s my baby Hera, (don’t really know if M/F, breeder didn’t know cause she was too young to tell at the time) but I go with F lol

EDIT: Well I’m super happy to know that I’m not stressing out my baby and that playing dead is usually from being stressed. So I’m happy to know that she’s content with me and feels safe. Thank you everyone and much love 🩷🩷

Now idk if he’s stuck or not but he seems to be able to move freely. The one hole he got in he can fit into the other is too small, any advice on getting him out or what to do??

To the ones that have been following my last post about the Instagram hognose hides. We had to make our own 3D model and one of the members here very kindly 3D printed the hide for me ! All sanded down today and will be getting painted this week with non toxic paints and a non toxic paint sealant to look like our boy!!! Honestly so happy with the process so far and can't wait for the customization to begin :) we couldn't find a stl file anywhere but making our own paid off our boys head is round anyway 🤣

Original post was about 2 weeks ago

Purchased as a male but based on the tail I feel it’s possibly a female. Any thoughts?

Hello everyone,

i bought a new Hognose yesterday at an Event. She is my first Hognose and I was wondering how long I should give her in her new home to calm down. I was thinking five days.

Just looking for advice and also wanting to show my new Baby.

:D

This is mostly a temporary enclosure, I'm not sure what the best kind of stuff is for them I just used what I had on hand. The substrate is a mixture of reptisand and reptisoil.

This is Red Beans and Rice, aka Beans. Just got him from an expo. He is my first hognose. I’ve done a good amount of research, but any tips or advice is greatly appreciated :) (don’t worry, my kitty was far enough away)

So Cinnabun has started eating and her health is looking very good, so Im very happy about that. So because she has started eating I've started to work on beginning handling with her. I only do it 2 days after she's eaten and only for 1-2 minutes at at time (3 MAX). While she has shown defensive behaviors while being picked up by the snake hook (hissing, bluff striking, ect) she doesn't display that while in my hands. The main thing is notice is that she breathes very heavily which is a obvious sign of stree. Now I obviously don't want to stress her out but I want to get her used to handling, just for a vet visit in the very least. Is this kinda the best way of me doing it or is there a better way I could without stressing her so much. She is a very skittish snake and is afraid practically everything under the sun but I'd like to work with her in any way I can. She is my scaley baby and I love her.

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He ate his first meal today with zero issues! I dangled the pinky in front of him and he went straight for it! I am extremely surprised given that i only got him on saturday and i just changed his enclosure so hopefully this means he will be a good eater! - also skull has been removed thank you for everyone pointing it out to me!

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