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Name my pet!
thelaptop:
--- Quote from: Tormuse on November 03, 2012, 18:00 ---Some unfortunate news... Pretzel passed away on Hallowe'en. :( I don't know what happened; I had been taking good care of him and there didn't seem to be anything wrong, but then I came home from school one day and he was dead. :(
This made me very sad, but also made me feel like getting a new pet to help fill the void. So...
Here he is! :) (she?)
He's a baby corn snake and I kind of have a name in mind already, but I thought I'd appeal to you guys in case someone can come up with a better one.
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I don't know much about snakes myself, but an acquaintance of mine has a ball python, and one of the issues they face is heating problems. As cold-blooded animals, they are very sensitive to the lack of heat, and maybe while you were out the house temperature dropped too low and caused its metabolism to cease.
I'm truly sorry for your loss of Pretzel.
* thelaptop removes his hat and bows
Tormuse:
Thank you for your condolences, thelaptop.
And yeah, that was one of my prevailing theories, that he was too cold. He had a heating lamp, which I had on 12 hours a day, but he did spend an inordinate amount of time basking under it up until the end, which made me wonder if he found it too cold in there. I'm thinking maybe it would be a good idea to get a heating pad to warm up the floor of the cage this time around, especially since winter is coming!
As for the new snake, my first impression of him was that he seems adventurous. When I was checking them out in the pet store, he was the boldest of all of the corn snakes I held, exploring faster and farther than anyone else... but in retrospect, that might be because he was the most eager to find a place to hide. :P Just tonight, he's poked his head out of his shelter a few times, but every time I try to take a picture, he hides again. And then, when he came out to explore his cage, I thought it would be a good opportunity for him to come out for a bit, but as soon as I removed the lid, he actually dove into his shelter, far faster than I thought a snake could move! :o
thelaptop:
Awww... but yeah, make sure there's enough ambient heat for the snake. You might need to earn his respect and trust at some point. =)
Tavana:
I'd suggest a lamp and a heating rock for winter. Leave the rock on all the time (it drains less energy anyhow), and in a somewhat sheltered place so he can hide and be on it at the same time.
Snakes are awesome, and I'm sorry to hear your last one passed on. Rust was the first name that came to mind, looking at him.
Tormuse:
--- Quote from: thelaptop on November 04, 2012, 22:18 ---Awww... but yeah, make sure there's enough ambient heat for the snake. You might need to earn his respect and trust at some point. =)
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For sure, he's definitely more shy than Pretzel was, but I'm sure I'll earn his trust with time. :) I read an interesting tip about it recently of putting a pair of gloves inside the cage for three days so they smell like him, and then wearing those gloves every time I handle him. The theory is that if the gloves smell like him, they'll seem less threatening. I might try that if he doesn't warm up to me in the next couple weeks. :)
--- Quote from: Tavana on November 05, 2012, 01:32 ---I'd suggest a lamp and a heating rock for winter. Leave the rock on all the time (it drains less energy anyhow), and in a somewhat sheltered place so he can hide and be on it at the same time.
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I read somewhere that heating rocks can be troublesome in terms of causing burns to the snake. :| I think I'd rather go with an under-the-tank heating pad. I just picked one up today, but it seems that I misremembered the size of my tank, so I'm going to have to go back and exchange it for a smaller one.
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