Hydra's Den Exotics

29/01/2025

Happy Chinese New Year...
Welcoming the year of the snake!

28/01/2025

I talked about recessive projects for 5 minutes.

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28/01/2025

What's crazy about recessive projects is that you can put two really awesome snakes together...
And get ehhhh. It can sometimes take two or three generations, if not more, to actually see the fruit of your labor. This is one reason that ever since I started working with snakes, recessive projects have been my focus. They just seem more interesting, and more rewarding.
Duchess feels a bit lumpy... I'm hoping she will give us a boring ish clutch of leopards, GHI, and some normal. However, the babies will also carry the genes for green ghost and pied....
Now won't that be interesting... In a few years?
I certainly think so.

26/01/2025

We still have one snow het splash Kenyan sand boa left. This boy still has some growing to do but is certainly not a baby anymore. That species stays small, especially males. They are ambush predators that hide beneath the substrate and wait for prey to wander by, then they strike! This guy has never struck or bitten. But even if they do, they have such tiny mouths, it's hard to even consider it a bite 😆

He is on reduction in effort to get him to a new home. Who wants him 👀

25/01/2025

This has to be one of my favorite mice I've produced. It's so interesting looking. This charcoal look, which reminds me of silvermane rats, has recently started popping up and I've been keeping every one... I thought this one is shiny also.
I've noticed many of my mice have thicker denser hair than usual... It's interesting how animals adapt to the weather. Regardless, this little one was very cold (despite the heater right on the mouse rack) so I carried her around until she stopped shivering. Thankfully tomorrow night should be our first non freezing night in quite awhile. None of us are particularly adapted this this 🥶

24/01/2025

This is a completely updated list on our inventory of snakes ready to go. After a hard look at what we've got, I added a bunch to it in attempt to thin out the extra animals that don't fit into our plans. Maybe they will fit into yours!
Please inquire if you have any questions.

We are a licensed pet dealer in the state of Georgia.

22/01/2025

We pardon this interruption to bring you, winter wonderland in South Georgia 👀❄️

22/01/2025

Well this is unusual!!

22/01/2025

Uhhhh guys who shipped us Northern weather!? This is not pleasing to the ectotherms. Or the endotherms for that matter.
🥶

17/01/2025

If anyone is looking for a mouse starter colony, I've got enough extra mice that I could probably do 2 groups of 2.5 ish (that is two boys, five girls). Pretty mice with lots of colors, even the ones that aren't as interesting potentially carry interesting genes.
I can meet in Camden/Waycross/Brantley depending on the weekend.
15 per starter.

Not really interested in selling them as feeders at this time. If they don't sell I'll use them for myself.

16/01/2025

11/01/2025

Our friends at The London Sanctuary are having an adoption event! Go see some cuddly hounds 🥰

11/01/2025

I gave Moonpie a new stick hoping it would help him climb up and down easier, but it was a little shorter than I wanted. It's hard to find the perfect sticks, you know? I was wondering if he liked it and checked on him not long after...
I think he likes it.

10/01/2025

Nala is such a dramatic girl...
She's notorious for bowl tipping. She's always dumping her water. I gave her a ceramic bowl two or three days ago and she's already done this .. at least it's not tipped over I guess?

She's currently bowl wrapping which is a standard sign of being gravid. It's actually a way that these snakes cool down and regulate their temperatures, which is something they do a lot of while growing their eggs. Eggs that are kept a stable and correct temperature will have less risk of being poorly developed.

Now pardon me while I look for a bigger ceramic bowl.