#superconda

[hne-sne-sne]

MY SWEET BABY IS GOING THROUGH PUBERTY

[chithechao]

Drawing a hognose snake because I want one.

I drew the morph of hognose I want, although I’m not a big reptile person, I love hognose snakes and they’re cute. Note that if I have the chance to get one, I will do research on them before I get one. The morph I drew is an albino superconda.

[i-identify-hognose-morphs]

Superconda

dig mandate

[cable-salamdr]

Hoe’s soooooo mad abt being so tiny what a loser

[staticymaticyyourlifeisatravesty]

I found Fulgrim

Aka, my headcanon for what kinda snake morph he is

[kirexa]

We went to a place where you could glaze ceramics and yk I had to do snake themed. Behold! Kirexa light switch cover

Part one because it's not been fired yet, when we get it fired I'll do a before n after

[i-identify-hognose-morphs]

Albino superconda

sneef snof

[lopsidedghoul]

i lvoe snakesdssss

[saltydoesstuff]

I'm thinking of making like a Naga au or something with the boys and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to figure out what Raph would be. So I ask all of you for input--

[wrathful-reptile]

I just realized that when like... when we get recolors of the snakes

we could get some fancy morph hognose.

[i-identify-hognose-morphs]

Snow (albino and axanthic) superconda

How hognoses ask to be friends!

(The Hognose Twitch aka ScootScootScoot!)

If Sakura's body language is friendly, but she is partially in a hide, I'll drape my hand over her substrate barrier (which is a piece of plastic that keeps her substrate from spilling out when I open the door) and let her choose if she'd like to socialize. Sometimes she'll feel bold and take this as an invitation to come out, other times she'll rub up against me and caress my hand. I think she gets lonely when her sister goes to sleep before her, and if I offer her socialization time many times she'll lay with her body caressing part of my hand.

Each time she's done this, she's cuddled me a bit longer. Today, after cuddling, she had a surprise!

She did the hognose twitch for me! (Timestamp 0:37 & 3:35)The first time she did it, it was much bigger, but I had no idea she was going to do it so I grabbed my camera and filmed the one after. Usually she will twitch while scooting forward, but the substrate barrier prevented most of that-otherwise she probably would have had much bigger motions and scooted into my finger XD

If you are not familiar with "the hognose twitch" this is a way some snakes (including hognoses and rattlesnakes) will communicate to each other they are friendly please be nice too?, and the other snake will do the same motion back to show they are. Some folks think it has to do with mating, but it really doesn't anymore than waving hello is exclusive to dating- which I suppose snakes might do instead if they had arms.

Usually they only use this means of communication with other snakes, but babygirl was scoot scoot scooting specifically to communicate with me! So perhaps Sakura and I are now good friends, and I am an honorary snake. :3

Sometimes they will also twitch when startled, it seems to say a similar message, "I'm friendly! Don't shoot!" so to speak, which is why near the end you'll hear me talk about how I don't think she was scared/startled and doing this out of fear. Sometimes snakes will hide they are afraid, and you can tell if a snake is frozen in fear by stepping away a moment as scared snakes frozen in fear will take that moment to flee and hide.

I left her alone to be sure this interaction was not stressing her out or a startle response, and she just adjusted herself into her usual relaxed pose that she often takes at night to watch me from her little den before bed.

[goddamn-grammar-blog]

It has been a DAY

Mesa once again got out last night, but I found him under my bed this morning. I also fed him today in hopes that encourages him to stay put until we get the necessary bits to secure the top of his enclosure (tomorrow).

Jinsin's been exploring regularly (completely surprised by the fact that his entire space wasn't just a tiny square). He also started pulling a Mesa, and was nosing around the top of his own enclosure. We will be proactively fixing his up tomorrow as well.

We also got Wisp out. She's had some spots on her I was almost positive are just dirt, but wanted to be sure. She was so hissy and adorable, but let us wipe her down with damp towels. Just dirt. She was such a good girl that she got a meal right after.

Last but not least - JUNA, female arctic superconda from Hip Hogs arrived today. She's only two months old and so little, yet is exploring her enclosure like a champ. Her breeder was wonderful, and I have no regrets

[raivaryn]

The reptile expo was awesome! held my first hedgehog and first gecko, got to meet a beautiful calico ball, held a massive python, and JMG was there with so many hognoses like holy shit.

Unfortunately the power went out so it wasn't great lighting, but seeing a lav superconda and a Swiss choco in person was a treat. So many morphs and so much I would've liked to chat about, but I wasn't gonna waste a vendor's time since i can't afford hoggies atm.

Special shoutout to Kexotics too! Those toffees were so cute and I strongly considered that deal. I hope to buy from them in the future.

[i-identify-hognose-morphs]

Albino superconda! Very pretty

I got a hognose snake on Thursday!!

Her name is Cheddar!

[thatoneluckybee]

I absolutely adore the axanthic mutation.. they like have no yellow/red pigment I think? So they're leik b&w

Axanthic superconda hognose

Another axanthic super

Anery tessera corn snake!!! Anery = corn snake equivalent of axanthic and the tessera is the single line through it (hold on let me get a non tessera anery for reference)

^ anery corn snake

THE FIRST ONE IS HIDING :O

These ones are so cute they're matching. They're in a snake band and they match.

[thevivarium]

Here's the OJ x BT group!

Now that everyone is shed out, it looks like we have...

2.0 superconda het snow

2.0 superconda het snow pos arctic

0.1 superconda het snow pos arctic

2.0 conda het snow pos arctic

0.1 conda het snow pos arctic

0.2 normal or low expression conda het snow

Now to get some meals in their bellies!