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14/11/2025

Popping in to post a herp-adjacent video that made me smile. I had just done a water change on the small paludarium (tree frogs above, shrimp below) and was paranoid I’d siphoned out the shrimp. I dropped half an algae wafer and set up the Timelapse … yes. Yes the shrimp are still very much there. 😁 🦐

01/11/2025

Jeepers and I took a moment to wish you all a most happily creepy Halloween🧡🎃👻💀🐍

23/10/2025

In this :::circus music::: time in our house, I thought I’d introduce another of our special herps. Meet Pokey, a ~35yro California desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)* we inherited from a family member a few months ago. 🐢

Pokey had a significant limp in her right foreleg, so we took her to Dr. Greek (who owns several different chelonians himself, and has published research papers on them). I asked for X-rays, and he humored me while saying that in 95% of the time, X-rays don’t show anything when dealing with a lame tortoise. Then he looked at her X-rays. 👀😳

Pokey had either a bone infection or bone cancer in her right shoulder, and seeing as there were no other boney abnormalities on the X-ray he concluded it was most likely an infection. Some antibiotics, some meals, and some TLC later, she’s doing well.

We adore her. She’s a bit of an aloof grump. Same, girl. Same. 😑

* Desert tortoises are a highly protected species and it is illegal to take one from the wild. Pokey was taken in by her previous owner as a hatchling before the law was passed, so she was grandfathered in and is a permitted and registered. She wears her registration sticker under one of her wheel wells. 😁

18/10/2025

:::waves::: 👋 We’re still here. Kinda—there have been many trips back and forth to Santa Cruz to care for Brian’s terminally ill father while preparing/repairing all the deferred maintenance on his house.

Meanwhile: Earlier today Meta sent me a warning that this page may be deleted (???) for reasons unclear, so I filed an appeal and hopefully it stays up. Perhaps not coincidentally around the same time, I also received a notice someone out of the country tried to log in to the page, so I immediately changed passwords and took other security steps to avoid that. Soooooo…just in case the page goes 💨 , you’ll know why. ❤️‍🩹

No worries about our critters; all our animals are still being cared for—be it me when I’m home, or our adult and teen sons when I’m not. I admittedly miss being around the buggers. Enjoy this pic of this girl preferring a 3/4oz itty bitty deli cup as a bed with me. ❤️🐍

18/09/2025

YAY! 🎉This nearly 3-month-old corn snake girl had NEVER taken a voluntary meal—until tonight! 🥳

I’ve force fed her a couple times but she just wasn’t taking off. After trying all kinds of scents as well as live pinkies with no result, I was about ready to give up on her and offer her to one of our kingsnakes. Finally tonight, I yet again offered her a newborn pinkie. When I checked an hour later…no luck. When I checked several hours later: look at that gorgeous full belly! 😍

SO glad I didn’t give up on her. 💕 I need to get a picture of her with her lookalike brother (they’re both peach fire tesseras het lavender, anery)—their size difference is crazy. The difference between a solid eater and a problem eater from day 1: she has this huge belly lump from a newborn pinkie, while he’s already on peach fuzzies!

15/09/2025

Brian bought this particularly gorgeous snake at last night’s USARK auction 😝 🥃

14/09/2025

Our Pacific tree frogs are dumb, but their mealworm and cricket meals are dumber. But the frogs win the cute factor! 🐸

We have the frogs in a small paludarium with a 4gal aquatic portion on the bottom. The mealworms and crickets have a thing for jumping/falling into the water, ignoring the various plants and driftwood they could use as a ladder to escape, and then drowning and fouling up the water and gumming up the filter. The frogs are also dumb and don’t seem to see the food on the ground if I put the bugs in a feeding dish, so the bugs escape/die/sit there while the frogs get skinny (I’d like to point out that when the frogs were in a regular small terrarium, they didn’t make this mistake 🙄). So, I tried a couple of these suction cup fake leaf feeder dishes—later adding a bit of carrot to keep the mealworms from sky diving out if it—and voila! Frogs are eating and minimal mealworms ending up in the tank. But man, the dumb is strong.

(FTR the mini tank has some shrimp, a pygmy corycat, and two bumble bee gobies.)

11/09/2025

I love this girl’s head and neck pattern! It’s like part of the head stamp came off on her neck and stuck there😆

10/09/2025

This is one of the craziest outcomes I've had in breeding, ever. This girl isn't a superconda--she's an *extreme* (and dang, I mean extreme) high expression anaconda. Dad is a regularly patterned lavender het albino 50% het axanthic; Mom is a axanthiconda het lavender, albino (as pics of them show). There are *28* siblings across 2 clutches to this girl, and none of them have a pattern anything CLOSE to hers. Probably just a fluke; expression can vary widely and apparently it went *really* wide with her--but even so, she is clearly a keeper. 🔥🥰

09/09/2025

And THIS is why I always have my camera ready when I’m feeding the baby dorks 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 (He was properly redirected right after this pic. Also that’s a bit of bedding in the corner of his mouth—he must have scooped some up in his open mouthed, throw himself at the tongs enthusiasm🤪)

09/09/2025

🥹 Seven years later, he’s still my (no longer little) helper.

Also, teenagers don’t smile for their parents’ camera, even when giving permission to post their pics. 😏

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