Hand Over The Cursed Sphenodon Facts.

snake skeletons and roselilies ! 

☆ available as a wall scroll, journals, and more on etsy ☆ 

Just ordered screenprinted shirts of this design… IM SO NERVOUS AND EXCITED :0000

Beautiful old whitetail buck skull I picked up at the yard sale. Such a cool antler anomaly! Likely caused by an injury while the antler was still in velvet. Definitely a keeper! <3 I’ll post more photos once I get it cleaned up.

moodboards i did earlier 2day :)

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ok 2 use w/ credit

why don’t you stare back into my huge eye

why don’t you set my wings on fire

Can i be completely honest?

I wasnt sure the display enclosures I built were the best choice. Even though i am pro enrichment and larger enclosures, i had my doubts that a ball python would use all that space.

The behavior im seeing is so awesome though. Like Khaleesi, who is 6-7 years old now, raised and bred entirely in a typical rack system for most of her life, is a very different snake. She would hide pretty much exclusively, even in my larger tubs. If you check the past posts- i believe i excitedly posted a photoset seeing her out for the first time ever a few months back. That alone was amazing to me. Now, my mind is blown. Youve seen the pictures, but im not sure you know how proud of her i am.

Look at that. Confidently chilling up top where the hotspot is about 95.

Part of me wasnt going to put her in a display. Not because ball pythons do poorly in large enclosures, but because i was certain she wouldnt use the space, whereas the animals i raised with enrichment would put it to better use. It sounds funny but i was scared i would find out animals treated like breeder would never take advantage of enrichment and thusly would not “need” it. That would make all of my efforts pointless.

Despite all that, I intuitively felt that she needed to be in the first completely finished display enclosure.

You can see, that was the right choice and she has expanded her behaviors.

I see her out and about, but shes also more confident. For example:

She started to periscope when the door was closed, and i was able to open the door and snap this picture without having her shirk away in fear or immediately seek a hiding spot to escape.

Watching her and the other females use their enclosures to perform different behaviors has encouraged me again.

And now, when i get responses like this:

I can smirk and laugh, because my animals are healthier.

Oh i also saw Asteria and Prometheus mating out in the open 🤷‍♀️

mlem

quintner

Hi, it’s been a while 👋🏻😊 My first-ever ‚pool walk video‘ to a nice golden morning view of Mt Pilatus, watch until the end🏔☀️. Got up really early but it was worth doing.

anyway though stop being rude please we just like animals