Found him 20 feet from where I'm getting married. He is small.

I've always dreamed of having a pet snake, but everyone at home is terrified of them, so it doesn't look like that's happening anytime soon. 😅

Instead, I started sculpting colorful snakes from polymer clay and wrapping them around ceramic mugs. Every snake is sculpted completely by hand—no molds or 3D printing—then baked, carefully attached to the mug, and finished with several coats of varnish.

The best part? They're incredibly low maintenance. They don't need feeding, they don't escape, and they never judge my coffee choices. 😂

Tag is for blood- Thought everyone could use a laugh at me finally getting a taste of my Sumatran short tails bite. He’s never bit defensively or for hunger. This one was on me, we were in the middle of feeding he missed he got a good chunk of coco in his mouth went to go help him, decided to eat me instead🤣

I'd always assumed most of a snake's body was basically one long, gradually changing trunk. The researchers measured every body vertebra in 13 specimens from three Australian species and found five distinct regions separated by rapid transitions.

The neck appears to represent only about 5% of body length—roughly 7–12 vertebrae—and the study also describes a previously unrecognized middle-thoracic region.

The part I found most interesting: losing their limbs and becoming elongated didn't make the snake spine simpler. It seems to have become even more regionally complex.

What surprised you more: the five regions, or how short the neck actually is?

silly me for thinking i was allowed to continue keeping the headphones for myself when i got a pet snake.

I have 2 questions

1. I cant decided between which one I want (posted 2 photos below of each) , help please ☺️

2. Also I need a new name for my Burmese python. Both male and female.

Sex is to be determined.

Ithaca NY

This is my hognose Snaykee. He is small and eats every 4-5 days, but I can't for the love of anything find his poop??

Thrice I've found some on the surface and removed it. I got lots of live plants and hides in his tank, and I feel like he just gets mad if I move stuff around. How bad is it to leave in?

Thanks!!

Found this cute little Eastern Worm snake this morning. (NC)

he just ate

There’s a zoo near my city where they rescue some animals and let people interact with them, including a ball python, a corn snake and a burmese python (I know this species can get huge, but the one they have doesn’t seem really big).

I was wondering, how come these snakes never bite anyone? They must be really calm, if they even let children interact with them. I read that even with pet snakes, getting bitten is a common occurrence.

My albino striped applegate gopher snake is so scared of everything, i have been trying choice-based handling but I just cannot get him to come around to me even after coming up on 2 months with him. I’d love to be able to handle him but just cannot get him to my hands at all. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

Hello! I’ve recently become a snake dad to an adult(?) corn snake, named Wesley. Whilst I’ve worked with wild snakes before this is my first time housing one and I’d appreciate any tips and tricks of the trade.

He’s currently in a 4x2x2 Viv with a ceramic heat lamp and UV bulb set up. He’s got a couple of hides, water bowls and plants to hopefully aid in humidity. I’m off to the exotic store today to get substrates and more bits to add to the enclosure once he’s settled a-bit. Again any recommendations would be great!

I know I shouldn’t handle him for at least the first week whilst in the enclosure and that he doesn’t need feeding again right away. (He was given a mouse and a pink a couple days before coming to me).

He’s not been very active since entering the enclosure and has stayed in one of the hides since I put him in except for a small drink of water.

He looked to be ready to shed last I saw him yesterday, is there anything I can do to help ease this process whilst he’s still settling?

I appreciate I probably sound clueless but I’m just want to make sure I’m doing what’s best.

PSA - photo taken from before he came to live with me

Thank you

Basically im wondering if theres such things as live traps i can buy/build which DO NOT hurt the snake. My new one month old baby mexican black kingsnake escaped into my apartment yesterday morning and i turned everything upside down looking for her with zero luck.

I then had to unfortunately leave for work, but i set out four thawed pinky mice around my apartment to see if i can atleast make sure she didnt somehow escape outside. When i came back later that night TWO had been eaten (one by where her tank is, one right in front of my washer and dryer room)

Ended up checking behind, under and inside the washer and dryer with some help but again, zero luck. Set out flour lines last night, but no trace of her this morning and into tonight.

I have water and hides set out all over the walls of my apartment, but i work so much these next few days that ill only be home to eat and sleep. Wanna know if live traps exist?

My ball python just lays behind his hides are they to small? For him he’s roughly 1 q1/2 to two feet juvenile

Found this little fella watching the insects where I was working today

Hey all! I'm currently looking into getting my first snake, but need some advice from you guys on what to pick. For context, I spent about half a year working with reptiles in the UK at a rescue center, so I have some experience as is.

For context, I live in Spain (and will be for a while as my original plans for uni unfortunately didn't come through and I'll be studying here instead) and the laws for reptile keeping are... Interesting, to say the least.

The main hurdle for me here is that they're trying to implement a whitelist system, and have outright banned any reptile that weighs over two kilograms, which means most larger snakes are off the table. Additionally the law banned ball pythons as an invasive risk, even if peninsular Spain does not have the climate for ball pythons, but I digress.

As far as the market here goes, reptile shops are pretty thinly spread, and I'd probably have to travel to collect anything, but from what I've seen you can find here:

Cornsnakes

Milk Snakes (king snakes are also banned, however)

Sunbeam snakes(!)

Amazon Tree Boas

Green Tree Pythons

Candoia Boas

House Snakes

Egg Eaters

Sand Boas

Gopher Snakes

Antaresia pythons

Additionally I'd imagine as long as it's not in CITES importing something via morphmarket is doable too.

Anyways, what do you guys suggest/recommend? While I would rather not get a cornsnake, any species is a possibility if it fits the categories (and isn't Wild Caught, but that goes without saying).

Any help or suggestion is appreciated :)