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Hi guys, i found this beautiful 6 year old, roughly 5’2” Florida king snake morph that was in the free section on Craigslist (it had been posted for 3 weeks and no one took her) and the owner had had her for 6 years and just let her out grown her terrarium and its so sad she deserves a much larger enclosure and a loving home, i already have ball pythons, a boa, 3 tree frogs, a southern pacific rattler, and lots of tarantulas, i dont have the space for her but im sure someone has the on here does. She is absolutely beautiful, fully healthy, been on a diet of frozen rats her whole life. She just shed yesterday. If anyone is knowledgeable on king snakes please comment or DM me, she needs a more space.

This is my big lady Niemöller and by big I mean big. She is 150cm long and weighs 750 grams. For some reason she has trouble shedding her belly scales. It’s mainly in her middle part, head, neck and tail aren’t a problem. I carefully helped her shedding two times now, if I don’t interfere there will be a good head piece, the tail piece and bigger chunks from her back and many single belly scale patches. It looks like she squeezes the old skin between two belly scales while trying to wiggle out which leads to ripping at this piece. I don’t think it’s vet time because she will shed completely on her own even without help. It‘s just not one single piece. She sometimes sheds in one piece or two pieces, but it’s rarer.

Her vivarium is 160/160/70cm and features various hides, spots and climbable material. The floor is top soil and tortoise soil mixed, without any sand. Around the soil the temperature is like 22°C, in summer up to 25°C, the moist soil is cooler. She has one hide directly on the soil and one tunnel in the soil. Humidity there is like 60-80% depending on when I watered the last time. In the middle the humidity is around 60% all the time. At the top it’s 45-60%, with usually around 50% and 29°C. Directly under the basking light it’s close to 30°C.

For some reason she prefers lying in the open at the hottest and most dry spot during shed. My other corn snakes will climb down, dwell under their plants, on the moist soil. But she stays in the dry spot and just drinks a lot.

Any tips for her? It’s really annoying.

Elaphe moellendorffi a very underrated and gorgeous Asian Colubrid snake. Easily get over 5 feet in length.

Hi! Just sharing this little dude I saved from my cat. He's a California black headed snake. I had never seen one and, yeah. He is now living in my Mariner's Kalancho - in the no kitty zone outside.

My boy decided he wanted to pretzel, but it turned into whatever knot this was.

Happy birthday Scylla 🥹

2 years around the globe and still getting bigger! My jump into big snakes and it was love at first sight 🫶

Big girl got to enjoy a nice rabbit meal. Over 6 feet and counting 🥹💜

Rabbit produced by me 🥰

A large Veracruz Neotropical Rattlesnake (Crotalus mictlantecuhtli) from a trip to Mexico a few years ago. This species was recently recognized as a separate lineage of the Neotropical Rattlesnakes, described in 2020, about a year before this photograph was taken.

Carbajal Márquez, Rubén & Cedeño-Vázquez, José & Martinez, Arely & Neri, Edgar & Machkour-M’Rabet, Salima. (2020). Accessing cryptic diversity in Neotropical rattlesnakes (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus) with the description of two new species. Zootaxa. 4729. 451-481. 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.4.1.

This is the second time I see him do this. It lasted 5 minutes, video was sped up. Its like he’s going in circles on his own body and I don’t understand why.

Mid Atlantic USA
Eastern rat snake

Location is south Florida

This is technically not an ID post so mods please don't delete...

Hey guys, I have a few questions about my new brooks I picked up at a show around 3 weeks ago. Hes really young, probably under 2 months and is still pretty skittish but getting better fast. I have been following Lori‘s choose based handing so hopefully I can get me used to me. One question I have is when I should upgrade his tank, he’s in a 10 but already grown soo much and is very active. I have a 25 lined up and was wondering when to switch him. another question was how bad do I need to get him a background? He clearly messes with his reflection and idk what kind of background to give him fair his tank is all glass. Thank you guys if anyone can help much appreciate! I know you can’t tell in the pic but the rock in the back is hid he loves it

So i recently got a ball python and im having trouble feeding/ need advice.
I do have another snake that isnt a ball python and have never had trouble feeding it.
So my ball python was trying to eat it as you can see but managed to get loads of substrate on the mouse. Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid this?? And no i did not let her eat this mouse im hoping to try again tomorrow. She currently has substrate in her mouth and im not sure how to get it out/ if its gonna affect her badly? If anyone has any tips or what i can do please comment

Took her back from my dads house where she was being neglected and now we’re starting to resocialize her once she’s settled

My boy Soba escaped his enclosure and found himself smushed between the wall and the bathroom sink. Sink is connected to the back wall so moving the sink is a no-go. Should I lure him out with food? Any ideas appreciated!