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Trekky
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
12 Posts |
 Posted - 26/08/2012 : 00:09:07
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Hi everyone,
Just thought I would quickly introduce myself.
I am a full time mother of 3 and if they didn't keep me busy I also have a 7 month old sprocker pup and I also keep and breed Gambian pouched rats. We also have an aquarium of tropical fish and a razor back turtle which are hubby's babies.
I the past we have kept beardies, green anoles, tree frogs, bull frogs and pac man frogs so plenty of experience with exotics.
What's brought me to this forum is my 2 boys choice of animal for their first pet... A corn snake. After yet another visit to our favourite pet store consisting of the boys pleading with us to let them have a snake as a pet and doing some research regards the best type of snake to get them if at all they would make a good pet for a 6 and 8 yr old we decided to go for it and get our first corn snake. We got one from a local breeder in the end however as I wasn't happy that no matter how much I made it clear I wanted to hold and see the baby corn snakes in the shop they refused to as "they were quick and could be bitey"... As you can imagine this very nearly put us off getting one but after reading more on the Internet about corn snakes temperaments we decided finding a breeder would be best... And it really was the best move we did as we found a fantastic breeder who was more than happy to let us see her babies being handled and let us handle them and we have ended up with a fantastic little corn snake that goes by the name of Drago. 
We don't know whether we have a he or she but we'll just go with he for the sake of not having to type he/she all the way through.
Drago is an anery... (sorry don't understand all the mottled, het and diffuse stuff to be more specific) and we have had a brilliant start with keeping our first snake. He's fantastic when the kids hold him and has eaten well from the word go and as of last night has shed with no problems.
Have to say though that the kids might have a fight on heir hands regards their idea about moving their pet snake to their room... As I'm absolutely besotted with him and after only 2 weeks of owning a corn snake am talking of getting another... For me
I will get a pic up for you all tomorrow when I have my laptop with me, in the meantime I look forward to chatting with you all |
Owned by:
1 hubby and 3 kids
1 sprocker pup - Toby
3 Gambian pouched rats - Odo, B'Elanna and Tora
1 Anery Cornsnake - Drago |
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 00:57:26
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Hi and welcome
Had to google the rats, they are massive!!! saw some with a harness on! would like pics of them too |
     
0.1.0 Corn - Kellogs
1.0.0 Hognose - Storm
0.1.0 Staffy - Lyla
1.0.0 Spaffy(staffy x springer)-Spyro
1.0.0 Ferret - Peanut R.I.P
0.1.0 Crestie - Fudge. Wish List - Pygmy hedgehog. Tropiocolotes |
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Trekky
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
12 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 01:16:40
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Promise to get some pic's of the the rats up too
I currently have 3 of them... Odo, B'Elanna and Tora (+2 new born babies). |
Owned by:
1 hubby and 3 kids
1 sprocker pup - Toby
3 Gambian pouched rats - Odo, B'Elanna and Tora
1 Anery Cornsnake - Drago |
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Donnie
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3215 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 06:44:24
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| Hello and welcome |
1.1 Corns (Anery Stripe, Amel) 1.0 Rootbeer 0.2 Jungle Carpet Python 1.0 Zebra Jungle Carpet Python 1.0 50% Diamond Zebra Carpet Python |
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Rachel
Hatchling
United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 07:03:38
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| Hiya :-) I have a sprocker too, he'll be 2 in December :-) like the sound of your zoo lol! |
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Okeetee Mick
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2308 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 08:07:18
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0.1.0 Okeetee (Sookie) 0.1.0 Powder (Luna) 0.1.0 Bloodred (Arlene) 0.1.0 Caramel Stripe (Tara)
0.1.0 Ghost (Crystal) 0.1.0 Caramel (Jessica) 0.1.0 Lavender Stripe (Portia) 1.0.0 Platinum (Godric)
0.1.0 Thayers King (Lettie Mae) 0.1.0 Albino Blairs King (Lorena) 0.1.0 Russian Ratsnakes (Pam)
0.1.0 Korean Ratsnake (Katerina) 1.0.0 Russian Ratsnake (Lafayette)
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coxymk2
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1245 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 08:37:09
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| Hello and welcome |
0.0.1 ANERY (Liquorice)
0.0.1 CAROLINA (Bangle)
0.0.1 AMEL (Boozer)
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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 09:53:27
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Welcome Trekky,
looking forward to the pictures.
Hm, it seems the snakey addiction is about to take hold of you , too .... it's when you realize just how many beautiful morphs there are and how cute the tiny snakey babies are... |
0.1.0 late CB10 Carolina corn snake - Bazilishka
1.0.0 CB11 Abbots Okeetee- Little Twiddler
1.0.0 CB11 Hypo corn- Sebastianek
1.0.0. CB14 Butter Motley - Squidwood
0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
0.1.0 stable cat
0.1.0 house cat |
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Trekky
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
12 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 12:58:36
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Thank you everyone for your welcome. Last night while reading through the forum i discovered Ian's site with the different morphs listed with images which has really helped me understand all the terms like diffuse and hypo etc although still not sure what 'het' means or how you know what 'het' a corn snake is but i'm still learning... and i have to say i have my next morphs in sight liking the look of the charcoal and caramel's.
as promised here are a few pic's of my little tribe:
This Tora one of my pouched rat females who i bred myself last year
One of the babies from my current one week old litter
Toby our sprocker pup
And of course what i joined this forum for... Drago our beautiful little anery corn snake
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Owned by:
1 hubby and 3 kids
1 sprocker pup - Toby
3 Gambian pouched rats - Odo, B'Elanna and Tora
1 Anery Cornsnake - Drago |
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Lozzy
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1556 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 13:15:20
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| Hi and welcome to the forum you have some gorgeous animals! |
0.1 CB10 Snow Cornsnake - Galaxy ~(Currently MIA)
1.0 CB11 Ultramel Anery Consnake -Orion
0.1 CB11 Lavender Cornsnake - Star
0.1 Leopard Gecko-Simo
1.1 Jack Russell-T.J and Harley (Minature)
1.1 Cats-Rascal and Dizzee
1.0 TB Horse-Mickey |
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 15:03:33
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 omg they are ALL gorgeous!! |
0.1.0 Corn - Kellogs
1.0.0 Hognose - Storm
0.1.0 Staffy - Lyla
1.0.0 Spaffy(staffy x springer)-Spyro
1.0.0 Ferret - Peanut R.I.P
0.1.0 Crestie - Fudge. Wish List - Pygmy hedgehog. Tropiocolotes |
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paulie78
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2331 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 15:15:16
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| welcome to the forum and aww your pets are awesome i love the rats soo cute i had a razor back turtle once and a map turtle very cool just have fish now though and the snakes chinnys birds and cats lol |
6.8.0 Corn Snakes http://buzzsprehistoricpets.yolasite.com/
1.1.0 Royal
0.2.0 Chinchillas
1.1.0 Cats
1.1.0 Birds
0.0.2 Fishtanks
0.0.1 Cali Kingsnake
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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 15:17:34
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Lovely animals, the baby rat is so cute...
Ah, once you've discovered Ian's vivarium, that's it, you'll be definitely wanting more now |
0.1.0 late CB10 Carolina corn snake - Bazilishka
1.0.0 CB11 Abbots Okeetee- Little Twiddler
1.0.0 CB11 Hypo corn- Sebastianek
1.0.0. CB14 Butter Motley - Squidwood
0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
0.1.0 stable cat
0.1.0 house cat |
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rubi
Hatchling
United Kingdom
374 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 17:21:58
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| hello and welcome you have some loverly animals there those rats are massive. Im still trying to get my head round morphs thers so many its confussing lol. I have a rather long list of ones id like now, looking at ians viv when bored is dangerous lol :) |
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gmac
The Scottish Admin
United Kingdom
5319 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 17:40:56
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| HI and welcome along |
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lupi lou
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3670 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 18:07:12
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| Hi and welcome, lovely zoo you've got there! we're in the sprocker club too although we often refer to her as a springer! |
 
1.0.1 Corns
0.1.0 Dog: springer
1.0.0 Horse
0.4.0 Gerbils
2.2.0 Leopard gecko
0.2.0 Cave gecko |
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kev 5
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3065 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 19:43:23
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Moppet
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3315 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 19:54:25
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Hello and welcome to the forum. What a lot of lovely pets you have.
I can explain what het means if you like. It is to do with genetics. Most of the corn snake morphs are 'recessive'. This means that there must be two of the right morph genes to show the colour (or pattern). Your Anery corn snake has two Anery genes (also known as homozygous).
If a snake had just one Anery gene then it would look like a wild type (also called normal) and it would be heterozygous anery (meaning it has one of the anery genes). This is known as normal het anery. Snakes can carry multiple recessive genes, whilst being homozygous (these will be shown as colour morphs) so you can get lovely complicated combinations.
Hope this helped There's lots more information about this on the forum. |
2.4.0 Corn snakes
1.0.0 horse
0.1.0 Golden retriever
1.4.0 Guinea pigs |
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Jenn
Hatchling
Canada
204 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 20:54:16
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Welcome! holy hanna that rat pup is only 1 wk!!!! so damned cute!
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Trekky
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
12 Posts |
Posted - 27/08/2012 : 03:47:04
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Originally posted by Moppet
Hello and welcome to the forum. What a lot of lovely pets you have.
I can explain what het means if you like. It is to do with genetics. Most of the corn snake morphs are 'recessive'. This means that there must be two of the right morph genes to show the colour (or pattern). Your Anery corn snake has two Anery genes (also known as homozygous).
If a snake had just one Anery gene then it would look like a wild type (also called normal) and it would be heterozygous anery (meaning it has one of the anery genes). This is known as normal het anery. Snakes can carry multiple recessive genes, whilst being homozygous (these will be shown as colour morphs) so you can get lovely complicated combinations.
Hope this helped There's lots more information about this on the forum.
Thank you for that explanation that made a lot of sense |
Owned by:
1 hubby and 3 kids
1 sprocker pup - Toby
3 Gambian pouched rats - Odo, B'Elanna and Tora
1 Anery Cornsnake - Drago |
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Callazagy
Yearling
United Kingdom
506 Posts |
Posted - 27/08/2012 : 10:06:44
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| Hi & Welcome |
* 2.1 Corn Snakes (Arthas - Normal, Tilion - Anery Lav, Yavanna - Stripe) * 1.1 Cape House Snake (Jenson & Ginetta) * 1.0 Carpet Python (Irian Jaya Jag - Grantly) *
* 1.0 Amazon Tree Boa (Omen) * 1.1.2 Crested Geckos (Brindle, Harley, Noumea & Farino) * 0.0.2 Gargoyle Geckos (Pazuzu & Vesper) *
* 0.0.1 Mexican Red Leg Tarantula (Aragog) * 1.1 Leopard Geckos (Kara & Darwin) * 1.0 Dog (Labrador - Barney) * 1.0 Cat (Casper) *
* 1.0 Western Hognose (Hamilton) * 1.0 Apricot Pueblan Milk Snake (Tweek) * 0.0.2 Common Musk Turtles (Erin & Ira) *
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Hi... Another new owner here :)
