#milk snakes

[omg-snakes]

do you have any care guides for milk snakes? my cousin impulse purchased a honduran milk snake at a local pet store a few weeks ago and is now surrendering it to me, i'm not familiar with milks but i want this poor guy to thrive once i have him :(

Hello friend!

I'm very sorry to say that I don't have much experience with milk snakes. They're not a species I've ever personally kept and I don't have a care guide for them.

Most pet stores lump pretty much all colubrids (corn, king, rat, milk, hognose, etc.) under the same general care guidelines so if you know how to care for a corn snake I'd say you're already at last 50-75% of the way there. Just do some reading of multiple sources to fill in the gaps for milk snake specifics. They do tend to be a bit more delicate and I've heard anecdotally that they're being overbred, which is resulting in reduced health outcomes in young snakes, so don't be too shocked if they're a little tricky to get thriving. I'm really glad that this little one is getting into a better situation.

I sincerely hope your cousin has learned a lesson about impulse-buying animals.

[william-snekspeare]

AMPHIBIAN MILK!!

[rainbowsnakes]

Coil aquired

[noxcheshire]

I kept thinking of little baby man Phantom and the potential of Danny being an actual baby of the Infinite Realms. However, he’s more snake teenager than itty bitty Little Baby Man edition, cause I think it’d be so funny to just — imagine this teenage snake curled up in a summoning circle, obviously having been taking a nap and looking up with his big green, sleepy eyes and Constantine just stares and freaks because, “THATS A WHOLE ASS BABY, PUT IT BACK!”

But they can’t because apparently the summoning was more of a ‘knock knock I’m a babysitter’ and Danny’s ghost parent decided that this was the perfect time to have some time for themselves if Heroes were so willing to take care of Danny for a little while.

Another take — mainly in reference to a different post about Klarion actually just being a toddler of the infinite realms with no ideas on how to human and thinks him fighting with heroes is just a play date — zooms into the human realm where the heroes are and just goes, “Hey I’m dropping my baby sibling onto you guys cause my dad got mad last time Danny got hurt by the humans I hang with. So here you go, I’ll pick him up later.”

A teenage snake Danny is dropped into a hero’s arms where he mainly grumbles and then shifts to better take a nap. Klarion drops the baby essentials at them with no further explanations other then “here’s their favorite blanket, if they get fussy taco them; here’s the baby milk make sure it’s -200 F, they have an ice core, etc.” and then just DISAPPEARS after leaving what amounts to a month old infant in human heroes care.

[herpsandbirds]

Honduran Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis), juvenile, family Colubridae, found in Central America

Coral snake mimic

photograph by Tim Spuckler

[louistrations]

[squarecloud73]

*I worship you Tumblr please don’t remove it

Let's take off the jealousy, erase the rotten beneath, so we can polish this story, so pretty and clean.

[thepie]

this has been sitting concerningly long untouched in my wips pile.. unfortunately I think this is as polished as it gets 💔💔💔

[vespidclan]

[MOON 21]

NEXT

super excited to get to this one! having kittens drink milk out of a flower drenched in milk until they’re fully weaned makes perfect sense I think

(psst if it hasn’t been established already, the humans at the farm care a lot for stray cats like with baby Fallen and her mom. the ‘flower milk’ is just kitten formula from a dish left outside by the twolegs that papa here decided to use with a flower)

(what I’m trying to say is—don’t give kittens regular milk!!!)

also babies :) i’ll add em to the allegiances laterrr

[thaumana]

Year of the Snake - Yukata Malon

Bonus Variants

[mauvity]

A grouping of animal-plant illustrations :)

1st- Rubber ducky isopods, standard worm, and daisies

2nd- Milk snake and clover

3rd- Glass frog and surely some type of flower I knew what it was when initially drawn

4th- Weevils and some form of little brown mushroom

5th- Stag beetle and lily of the valley

6th- Mice and something akin to a pink prince philodendron

Please don’t repost without permission :) 🧝‍♂️

[losangelesdarling]

my snake alice🩷🩷 i named him after Alice cooper💕

[jezmmart]

Happy Birthday* @louistrations! They're drawing their delightful character Ophira the Milk Snake every week this year, so it had to be her.

*For yesterday, late posting on tumblr

[Click/tap image to view best quality] [More: Louistrations-related] [Ophira by Louis]

[herpsandbirds]

Western Milksnake (Lampropeltis gentilis), family Colubridae, Houston, TX, USA

Coral snake mimic.

This particular population is known as the Louisiana milk snake, which used to be considered a subspecies of milk snake, but is now just considered a population of the western milk snake.

Photograph by roadtripmonster 

[louistrations]

Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍

[burningcheese-merchant]

I just want you all to know that if they don't directly parallel or mimic Christ's 40-day fast with the Spire of Knowledge being the desert and Pure Vanilla and Shadow Milk meeting face-to-face and having three spiritual/philosophical confrontations with the latter trying to persuade the former to submit to his will and join the darkness, just as the Devil did to Christ, I will be very upset