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21/12/2024

It’s here! (Well, it’s made and going to print 😆) Put in your orders now for the 2025 Cleo’s Kingdom Colubrids calendar! For your copy, DM us your email and we’ll send you an invoice for $32 (shipping included). We ship as soon as we get them—should be around the second full week of January. Enjoy!🐍

19/12/2024

I was giving the cooling hogs water tonight and was amused by the contrasts in brumation styles.

Many of them, particularly like mature females like Wilhelmina on the left, go full “bury myself in a deep den” and shove *all* of their bedding as far forward of their winter tubs as possible, then curl up to sleep as far back as possible. Then you have those like Pendergast on the right who greet me like it’s mid June and they’d like food please. (The difference is they’re too cold to be as rudely enthusiastic as they usually are, so it’s a slower, more polite ask 😆)

I offer water about once a week, but outside of that I keep the rack covered with a blackout curtain and push the tubs as far back in the rack as possible. I’ll wake them at the beginning of February.🩵

17/12/2024

Well excuuuuuuse me for checking in on you and offering water! 😤🐍 Toffeeconda het lavender Moxie just wasn’t appreciative of my interrupting her winter beauty rest.

12/12/2024

“Up periscope!” Uh…you missed the meal right behind you, Manny Chazelle (toffeeconda het lavender). 🤪

(Pardon the red wash in the photo—we hatched some chicks recently and their brooder w/red light heat lamp is on the snake room floor 🐣)

09/12/2024

Ivy Witherbee was DETERMINED. Never mind I was tucking her away for her winter nap, she wants snacks NOW. (Really, she wants snacks *always*😆)

08/12/2024

Nighty night boys! 🐍 😴 Snapped this pic of this round of males on their way to their winter cabins. Pictured are Eljert Loveberg (pink pastel albino), Pendergast (lavender het toffee) , Zoltan (anaconda het lavender, albino, axanthic), Hershel (lavender toffee), Humphrey Hogart (hypo het axanthic), and Sideburns (superconda het albino from a mother-losing-pigment pied? vitiligo? test breeding project). ❤️

04/12/2024

We have a different kind of pipping and hatching going on around here right now 🥰🐣

04/12/2024

Such wiley prey! 🪱

03/12/2024

I really dig the broken head pattern on this guy (and his siblings) 👀

29/11/2024

We spent yesterday in the proper festive Thanksgiving fashion of cooking, cleaning, and company chaos, so our well-wishes come a day late. Hope you are all enjoying a cornucopia of leftovers and Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving to you all! 🦃🐍

27/11/2024

Awww…I’m sad to announce our special girl Kismet passed away. 💔 Considering the severity of her deformities it’s unsurprising and honestly remarkable she lived her 5 1/2 years, but our pet-only keepers always hold a special place in our hearts.

Her story: Kismet’s mother Brunhilde was never a big girl despite being given an extra year to mature and plump up before breeding. When we finally did breed her, Brun laid a huge clutch of ~17 eggs and it depleted her, but with supplements and frequent small feedings I was able to get her figure back…only for her to double clutch over *20* eggs. 😱 This was way, waaaay too much for her body and she died days after laying. 😞

We theorize some of the babies in the second clutch didn’t get sufficient calcium when developing inside their strained mother and it resulted in abnormal skeletal growth, particularly of the spine. (Similar deformities due to calcium insufficiencies have been seen in offspring from other species.) Kismet’s case was the most extreme in the clutch (only 3-4 had this issue) and despite calcium supplementation she grew into her undulating self. ❤️‍🩹

She gave us the gift of learning, and it’s priceless. She was always pretty weak and floppy in her back half, but she ate and acted like the greedy, opinionated hog she was. 🐍

26/11/2024

Our stunning female charcoal piedsided diffused het amel beast corn hybrid (25% black rat snake, 75% corn snake) "Gamera" will finally be ready to breed in 2025 and I AM EXCITED 🤩

25/11/2024

I am...POOP EMOJI OF DEATH 💩☠

20/11/2024

Sometimes I when open a tub I just have to say “Good GOD he’s gorgeous!” out loud, because…I mean LOOKATHIM🤩

17/11/2024

15/11/2024

Snake Discovery now has one of our behbehs! 🥰🐍 Her previous owner had to downsize due to a move and SD said they’d take her. And “Hissy Elliott” remains one of my favorite not-ours snake names. 😁

HUGE thank you to Nikki, Xanthe, and Adrian for the amazing hognoses!! We can't wait to add them to our breeding program to make some stunning babies in the ...

15/11/2024

New unboxing video up! And now the quarantine rack is full so I *must* stop, right? 😜

What’s in these boxes from John Berry/Designer Morphs and Christine Cotter/Big Easy Hogs?👀

15/11/2024

I just did a trade with John Berry, the man who literally wrote the book on hognose snakes. He had some generously complimentary things to say about the experience. ☺️❤️🐍

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We have a different kind of pipping and hatching going on around here right now 🥰🐣

I really dig the broken head pattern on this guy (and his siblings) 👀

I saw a similar clip w/plants and thought we needed to put our own Goji to work at home 😆

This itty bitty girl hatched just barely over 2g and subsisted on pieces of salmon and sardine for weeks before she was ready for pinkie halves and pinkie heads. When she finally graduated to whole pinkies it was a big achievement for the little gal! 🥰 👏🏻 Since this video was taken, she’s even upgraded to regular pinkies from the extra smalls she was on. Look at her grow! 😆❤️🐍

Thirsty Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz enjoying his freshly refilled water. (Just don’t ask him to read his poetry 😉)

Every year, EVERY year, I post this because every year THE STRUGGLE IS REAL 😭

Customer request: “Please send belly pics.” Me: “How about a super squirmy snake video where I *attempt* to show her belly…” Snake: 😤🐍🏎️💨 And I just NOW realized I should have just put her in a clear deli cup (with the lid on to prevent a Jack in the box moment) and taken pics from underneath. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤪

So I’d say our mouse colony is doing well! 😳😄 I counted 52 babies while cleaning the cage. Considering the cage houses about 25 adults comfortably I had to do some snake feeding—but that is what they’re for. We give them the best lives we can with lots of enrichment: large cage with lots of climbing, multiple toys, chews, and hides, various food sources, etc., so that however long their life may be, it is a good one. ❤️🐁

Well THIS is a first—a hatchling corn snake trying to BREED his sister* fresh out of the egg!! 🤯 I thought I saw him* doing the twitchy flirty dance when I was walking by but he stopped when I started recording. Then he followed up with this ridiculousness. DUDE. SERIOUSLY?! * As I haven’t separated the clutch yet (I wait until after first shed), I’m only assuming genders here. Would be interesting if my assumptions prove wrong! 🤣

Pippies LIVE! 😍 These guys are going to be P I N K. They’re from the two pinkest snakes we own, salmon snow with unknown hets Babs and Heliconia het motley, amel Licorice Whip. 💕🐍

Misting Goulash’s tub is always a risky venture. Actually, you take your chances just *opening* her tub. 👀 Girl is spring loaded! (FTR Goulash is a red toffee het axanthic. She started off taking nearly 3 months to take her first meal and has been playing catch up ever since)