Photon's Photos (Picture Thread)

[photonaholic]

missed one last night, oops....

 

[Tech_Junkie]

Re: Photon's Photos (Picture Thread) new pics!

I took some more tonight in the snake room.

Pinkies!!

Do you buy frozen or bread your own? I always hated going into the pet shop for pinkies. They always looked at me like I was buying human babies. I used to tell them WTF, you sold me the snake, and its gotta eat. I started a mouse farm, but the little F**kers went to war. It was a bad scene.

 

[photonaholic]

Re: Photon's Photos (Picture Thread) new pics!

Pinkies!!

Do you buy frozen or bread your own? I always hated going into the pet shop for pinkies. They always looked at me like I was buying human babies. I used to tell them WTF, you sold me the snake, and its gotta eat. I started a mouse farm, but the little F**kers went to war. It was a bad scene.

I do things a lot differently than most people, I breed mice alright, tons of them, BUT I have a hard time killing off these....

So I raise them, and sell to a local pet store for $1 per mouse. I sell her around 100 mice a month, then I use that $100 to order in this.....

Breeding mice is an art form really, 1 buck stud to 3 lady breeders per cage, keeps the war and killing down to a minimum.

2 bucks in one cage will result in battles, unless they are raised together from birth.

Think of it as a bar fight over the same women, You might be OK with bringing your brother along, but that strange dude you never met is competition, so you crack him over the head with a pool stick.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

You dont "bread" them and fry them up??? LOL

I had 7 males in one cage and 3 females in another. The girls got along, but the boys freaked out, even though I had them in different parts of the house.

I didnt mind the live feading, but I was worried when she grew up I'd have to bash the rats out cold so they would not attacker her. She died before that happened though. Rats are much more nutritious then mice. I think that might of been one of the reasons she died young.

 

[photonaholic]

I don't know bud, I have been feeding my BP mice for years, and he's big fat and healthy like an ox.

He eats live, no problems with that, It's killing little babies that gets me, I just can't bring myself to do it. Besides, the supplier I buy from sells me pinks for 12 cents each, so I get a lot of pinks for just a few mice.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

I used to buy a frozen brick of 12, I forgot how much it was. She went off the pinkies after 2 or 3 bricks.

Mice are low in calcium, and other base nutrients. Do you use supplements? Also did you ever had to force feed? I heard some pythons are finicky. Mine used to snatch the mouse out of my hand as soon as the lid was open. She was good though, and she was very relaxed with me. Anyone else she kind of freaked out. She bit my niece once.

 

[photonaholic]

Kane is an excellent eater, F/t or live.

I have calcium powder, but it's easy to overdo it, so once in a while I put it on the thawed out ones.

The skeletons of the mice are great calcium, he almost always has a white calcium ball in his turds.

When they decide to not eat, Gerbils will get them going again quickly, since gerbils are what they eat in nature.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

Just stabbing in the dark with what I've read. I have no idea why my snake died. There were no signs, she just died.

 

[photonaholic]

that happens, I see it all too much here.

The next one to go, well my oldest one and first ever snake has cancer.

She's not going to be around much longer.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

That sucks, sorry to hear it. Do you get emotionally attached like with dogs and cats?

 

[photonaholic]

Sometimes, Limon was a special "buddy" he was a true pet and nothing else, so I was (am still) bummed out big time.

Flicka was a breeding project that failed, 2 years down the toilet to get zero results.

Xena, well she was my first ever, a pet and rather special at that. She will sit in my shirt pocket, crawl around in my hair, she comes right up to me when I stick my hand in the tank and crawl up my arm. She started the whole fascination with keeping snakes in the first place, so I know that one will hit home hard, Hell I'm being kinda selfish right now, I know I need to put her down soon, and I keep on hanging on.

I have has $300 snakes croak, and I was more pissed off than sad, if you get what I mean.

Now when Dorothy gets attached, and one dies, I see her cry, it sucks royally.

 

[photonaholic]

My friend just took this photo, I thought it was so cool, I just had to share....

Garter Snakes on a u-haul.

 

[Raybo]

Here's a few images that I captured.

Birds at the feeder..........

and a moon shot.......

 

[photonaholic]

wow Raybo, those are so stunning, I will even forgive the thread jack...

 

[Raybo]

Sorry Wayne!

I just saw "Picture thread", I guess I missed the "Photon's Photo's" part of the title.

Ray

PS Thanks for the compliment.

 

[photonaholic]

You are very welcome, and please leave them there, those are great pics!