Hognose Best (2025)

24/04/2025

Some of our cb23 holdbacks have shed and are looking 🔥🤩😍👌

19/04/2025

Happy Saturday everyone!

Another reason why we have been extra busy lately is because we got a new addition to the family! A green cheek Conure called Roxy! 😃🦜😍❤️

I think we have been very surprised with how much attention they need and also how much they can bite! Lol 😆 but it's been great having her so far and join the rest of the mini zoo we have going here! 😄

She's 15 weeks old today and still in her adolescent phase so there's a lot of learning to be done but plenty of time to teach her! So far she knows how to stop up and mostly knows how to fly to our hands (when she wants to!) Our daughter is also trying to teach her to give kisses lol our next lesson will be to try target training her.

She's such a confident little bird and loves her attention and playing. She's a great character and fits perfectly into our crazy household! 🥰

18/04/2025

Yesterday Roulette gave us 12 good eggs! She was paired with Goose who is our conda het snow. Roulette is a normal pos het lavender, albino and axanthic so we are hoping for some lovely babies!

I have noticed that these eggs seem a little more yellow than normal so it could be that she held them a bit too long as they are well developed eggs, so time will tell if they last through incubation! 🤞

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14/04/2025

Soo did anyone catch me on the scaled success podcast last Tuesday?? 😀😄

If you missed it then here's the link if you wanted to give it a watch! It was my first podcast and I was very nervous as I don't usually like being in front of the camera, but Alvaro at Clover's reptiles did a great job at making me feel at ease so please go and support his channel and give it a like and a follow! I am a fan myself and love to watch their content, especially the podcasts! It's great for any hognose obsessed ppl out there or anyone looking to get into breeding 😁👍

If you enjoy it then please let us know and drop a comment here or on the video! And if you caught it live then thankyou so much for watching and I hope you liked it! It was a late one for me so my brain wasn't at full capacity (is it ever! Lol) and I forgot to look at comments so please don't feel ignored if you did! I was just focused on the chat 😄

Anyway here it is for anyone interested 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/live/k0jaUuxlR-I?si=DL_JIy91HI1UuZPY

14/04/2025

It's been a while but here we are! Still lurking and still busy with all the hognoses and other things! 😄

But for now here's how our breeding season is going 😀

Minnie has been an absolutely legend and laid another 13 eggs in her 2nd clutch of the season! 👏 That makes a total of 27 in the incubator from her so we are more than happy and so proud of her and how well she's done for her first time breeding! 🥰 So far all the eggs are looking good and we had no slugs whatsoever! 😃👍 you can see she's enjoying a lovely mouse with all the calcium and vitamins added to make sure she recovers well 👌 We really weren't expecting a double clutch as she was quite small but she surprised us totally! She's now down to 160g which isn't too bad and hopefully we can get her weight back up a bit to her normal with a few meals soon!

Valerie has also double clutched but as seems to be standard for her she is struggling to get them all out in one go. She laid 2 eggs yesterday and another 3 today. 4 have veins and are in the incubator and one was a slug. You can see her in the picture with her 3 from today and she clearly has a few left so we will be keeping a close eye on her! We have also offered her a calcium and vitamin loaded mouse to help keep up her energy and give the rest of the eggs a little push in the right direction. She took it gladly! 👍😋 so hopefully she gets all her eggs out and we have a healthy snake at the end of the season. We have decided that Valerie may have to be retired as a breeder because she does seem to struggle with fertility and laying the eggs and we wouldn't want her to have any future problems for the sake of a few babies, so if anyone is looking to take on a retired breeder then please get in contact with us! 🙂

So that's our progress! We have a total of 36 eggs in the incubator and a possible gravid female left to lay so its going alright and all females seem to be doing well which is the main thing 👍🙂

01/04/2025

This boy was thoroughly enjoying his exploration today while I was cleaning his tub! 🥰 Very curious and confident little guy! and he also has a lovely blushed headstamp with some pink tones to him..very unique looking 'normal' 🤩

18/03/2025

Gorgeous boy! 😍🤩❤️👌

Hangman - superarctic pos het atoxic

15/03/2025

One funky dude we haven't shared with you all is this little guy!

He hatched out from our Arctic het sable clutch in 2024 and looks very different from his siblings. His pattern is slightly tiger/woma, his headstamp is mottled and blushed out and his belly is a crazy pattern...

Is he Arctic? Or is something else going on, who knows! We are holding him back to see what happens with him as his personality is also on the quirky side! 😄

14/03/2025

🐍BREEDING UPDATE!🐍

So after our first successful clutches being laid, we now have some slightly disappointing news to share...

Valerie, our pos het lavender girl laid 6 eggs and 1 slug on 3rd March and then struggled to lay anymore. She got eggbound, and with her not being the most active snake, and getting eggbound last year with slugs, I sort of half expected it. I got her out of her tub and gave her a good massage and got her to stretch right out a few times to help get things moving. Did this for about 10-15 mins and then gave her a small mouse. She happily ate and this helped to push a few more eggs out. Sadly they would have been fertile but as she held them too long they would have suffocated. She continued to lay a few more eggs over the next few days and I'm pleased to say she got them all out! 🙌👏 So we have 5 good eggs in the incubator...let's hope they make it! 🤞

Bruleé decided to slug out and also got eggbound. She was pacing around her enclosure for a long time and refused to go in her lay box! Again gave her a little massage and some food and luckily she continued to lay the rest of her slugs over the next few days too. So unfortunately no fertile eggs from her, but I'm glad she got them all out safely!

So not the best update in terms of eggs, but a good outcome for the females involved and tbh that's better than getting a bunch of eggs anyway! Please excuse Bruleé showing off her slugs along with her p**p! Everything is moving south and she's proud, so we are too lol 😆

Breeding season continues....

13/03/2025

🐍❤️ GIVE A HOG A HOME ❤️🐍

Oreo is looking for a new abode!

This is a difficult one because she is one of our original group of hognoses that we entered the hobby with.
She's been an absolutely brilliant snake to keep. Yes she bluff strikes and hisses and in the early days was a serial musker! 😄 but she's outgrown that now and is actually quite sweet on occasion!

We are looking to move her on because our breeding plans are progressing and we have a few of her offspring now, so her time with us has come to an end 😢

She is a proven breeder and have given us successful clutches for 3 years, so she could either go to a breeder or a keeper. She's a CB20 beautiful expression of Arctic and is also het albino.

If you would like to take her home then please message us for more details. We will be looking for the best home for her. so please make sure you have done your research!

10/03/2025

❤️🐍 GIVE A HOG A HOME! 🐍❤️

Today I'm going to showcase 2 lovely CB23 girls 😃

These 2 were holdbacks and so do come with names which obviously can be changed if wanted.

🧡 The first young lady is Peaches, our Albino superconda 100% het toffeebelly. Her mum is a purpleline so she does have some lovely red tones to her and a beautiful headstamp to boot! She absolutely loves her food and is growing very well!

🤎 Our second is April, our conda 100% het axanthic 66% het toffeebelly. She is also growing like a w**d and loves to eat as you can tell! We originally thought she could be an Arctic but now aren't too sure.

Both girls are well established and would make great breeders or just good companion reptiles, as long as you watch your fingers! Lol 😄

They would be well suited to a breeder or an experienced home but open to anyone who would be interested. Unfortunately for them we have re evaluated our breeding plans and they now don't fit in with our future projects sadly 😕

They are listed on our morphmarket store but please drop us a message if you are interested in either of these girls!

05/03/2025

There's an auction going on for this sable boy right now over on morphmarket! 😃😍

Just over a day left to get your bids in! There is a starting bid at the reserve...but anything beyond that is down to you guys! He's a good looking guy and will make a great addition ❤️

Good luck!! I have a feeling this one will be being watched until the last minute! 👀

04/03/2025

🐍❤️ GIVE A HOG A HOME ❤️🐍

These 2 boys are brothers and were hatched out in 2022! Their sister is Minnie who we have bred this year and we also held back their brother Hangman, who is a lovely superarctic.

These boys have been listed on and off for all this time. They have been to shows and still have not been snapped up! 😱 They are starting to get a bit of a complex and as much as I keep telling them they are beautiful, I don't think they are believing me anymore! 😕😄😂

They have been taken off our listings when they have been on food strikes, and tbh they have had a lot, which is probably why they havent found a home yet. They matured quite early and we never like to list snakes that aren't eating regularly, although we know in their case it's because they are really wanting to fulfil their life's purpose! So a breeder home would be the best for these guys! 😁👍

They are both Arctic and 50% pos het albino, toffee and axanthic, so a great little gamble too! They are shy boys and can get defensive, so have the typical hognose sass we know and love, so prefer to be drop fed, but will take food from tongs occasionally. They are beautiful examples of the Arctic morph and would make a great addition to anyone's collection!

Please message for more info and maybe even a deal for both of them together 🙂😉

04/03/2025

Are you in the US and interested in our hognoses?? No problem! Message us for details on shipping! 😀👍🇬🇧🇺🇲

03/03/2025

🐍❤️ GIVE A HOG A HOME ❤️🐍

Here i have a gorgeous sable female hatched on 28/5/24
She's quite docile as most of our sable clutch was and she was a great eater from the beginning. Unfortunately just a few months in and when she was near to finding a new home, we discovered a slight kink on her back! This doesn't stop her getting about at all and is very minor (as pictured in the last photo just visible in front of my 3rd finger) if you didn't feel for it you hardly know it's there!
Anyway we would like her to find a pet only palace where she can be truly spoilt like the queen she is! 😄 If you have always wanted a sable morph but not the outlay, then this would be a good chance to get one and save yourself some pennies!

Please pm us for more info! 🙂

03/03/2025

Happy Monday! 👋🙂

A new feature I am going to do on our page is to highlight our available surplus snakes individually with specific info about them! I feel like this will give those snakes the extra attention they deserve and some will be extra special in their own way! So here's to the start of....

🐍❤️ GIVE A HOG A HOME ❤️🐍

Today I would like to introduce this lovely little lady. She's a normal morph and is looking for a pet only abode as she has a slight cleft lip/nose! This wasnt noticeable when she first hatched and It doesn't affect her in any way 😀 she loves her food and can be sassy at times if she's caught off guard, but generally she's very happy to be handled and is pretty calm all round. I would love to see her go somewhere she will be loved that bit extra! 🥰

For any more info on her please send us a message!

Thankyou and please keep an eye out for more hogs coming soon! 😄👍

01/03/2025

First eggs of the season have dropped here at HBHQ!

Minnie surprised us tonight with 14 good eggs!! It's our first time getting eggs from a snake that we have produced ourselves! 😃🤩🎉 so we are hitting some milestones which we are very proud of.

Very proud of both mum and dad also with them being first time breeders for us too! Let's hope the gamble with them pays off! 🤞

Happy days! 🙌

28/02/2025

This is Mars.

Mars is a cb23 making him nearly 2 years old.

Mars hasn't eaten in a few weeks...

I think he tried cooling off in his water dish! 🤣😅🤭🙈

Thankyou Mars 👍 😄

***y ***yhognose 💦

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