Ssthisto WalkingDeath DancingLight ([info]ssthisto) wrote,
@ 2007-09-13 19:52:00
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Current mood: sick

Yay for bronchitis!
I just hope the doc thinks that the handful of pills three times a day, plus the inhaler, plus not being at work (and thus not getting paid) is good enough. I do NOT want to go into hospital even for a little while.

And for those of you who are interested: Our house is one zoo license short of being a zoo. I wouldn't have thought this time last year that we would have:

Big Lizards
1 Argentine black and white tegu, female, 40" long (Domino)
1 Nile Monitor, male, 36" long (Diablo)

Boas
1 Redtail X Common Boa, male, 60" long (Mutt)
1 Adult female Colombian Rainbow Boa, 60" long (Callisto - technically Nienna's but lodging with us)
1 pair juvenile Colombian Rainbow Boas, 36"+ long each (Iris, female and Spectrum, male)
1 adult pair Kenyan sand boas - male is 18", female is 24" (Kibato and Mamake respectively - Mamake is Nienna's)
1 subadult male Kenyan sand boa, 16" (Jabari - who is Nienna's)
1 subadult female Kenyan sand boa, 16" (Nyoka - again, Nienna's)
7 neonate Kenyan sand boas, the offspring of Mamake and Kibato - they're numbered, not named, because none of them are staying here.
1 adult female Mueller's sand boa, 24" (Lakeisha - again, Nienna's)
1 adult male Rough-Scaled Sand Boa, 18" (Bindi-Bhaji)

Colubrids - North American and African
1 adult female Brown African House Snake, 36" long (Cinnamon)
1 juvenile male Brown African House Snake, 20" long (Pepper - little spawn of satan!)
1 adult male Mexican Black King Snake, 60" long (Orion)
1 hatchling female Blotched King Snake, 12" long (Conundrum, Connie for short)
1 subadult male Normal-morph Corn Snake, 40" long (Jasper)
1 pair subadult Anerythristic corn snakes, 27" long (Mica, female and Zircon, male - both carry the genes for amelanistic, lavender and stripe to boot)
1 yearling male Coral Snow corn snake, 20" long (Calcite - might carry diffuse)
1 yearling female Charcoal Anerythristic corn snake, 24" long (Flint - she does carry diffuse, and might carry amelanistic and hypomelanistic)
1 hatchling female Normal morph corn snake, 12" long (Sardonyx - she carries amelanistic, anerythristic, hypomelanistic and lavender)
1 hatchling female Lavender corn snake, 8" long (Kainite - she carries hypomelanistic and anerythristic, maybe amelanistic)
1 subadult female Leucistic Texas rat snake, 27" long (Siren)
1 subadult male Everglades rat snake, 27" long (Irwin)

Pythons
1 subadult male Royal python, 36" long (Theoden, Theo for short)
1 hatchling female Royal python, 12" long (Eowyn, Winnie for short)

Leopard Geckos
2 adult male patternless leopard geckos - big boys at about 10" long (Alya and Albali)
1 adult male Blizzard het albino leopard gecko, 8" long (Kurhah)
2 adult female Hypomelanistic leopard geckos, 7" long (Chara and Lesuth)
1 adult female "normal" leopard gecko, 7" long (Sadalbari)
1 adult female Albino leopard gecko, 7" long (Nashira, Nashraptor for short)
1 adult female Blizzard leopard gecko, 7" long (Shuja)
1 yearling female Albino leopard gecko, 6.5" long (Polaris the mad Hatter)
1 yearling female Normal leopard gecko, somewhat stunted 6" long (Wednesday-Mira)
1 yearling female Blazing Blizzard leopard gecko, 6" long (Maybe-Bellatrix)

Fat-tailed Geckos
1 Adult male Striped African Fattail (Jingo)
2 Adult female Banded African Fattails (Kijusi and Nikwata)

Crested Gecko
1 Adult male Buckskin Crested Gecko (Jareth "Jump, Magic, Jump")

Legless Lizards
3 Adult female slow worms, copper/gold phase (Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Thumbkin)
2 Adult presumed-male legless lizards (Chumley and Tananda)

And that doesn't count the four cages with rats (Males Husky, Malamute and "that black hooded one", females Robin, Alaska, Freya, Siberia, Badger, Nellie, Bubbly, Sugar and Spice, plus assorted babies), the six cages of mice or the two cages of Natal rats.... nor the cats, for that matter. Or the bugs. Not that the bugs have names, mind you!

The prevalence of four- (and no-) leggers in the house certainly explains why I'm not online as much as I used to be.


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[info]azusis
2007-09-13 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Ack! I hate bronchitis, I had it a lot as a child but guess I grew out of it. Missed a week of school once a year because of it. Hope it clears up soon.

And that is an amazing amount of animals you have there. Are you still breeding your geckos? I remember seeing a few newcomers on your LJ a while back.

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[info]ssthisto
2007-09-13 07:40 pm UTC (link)
I'm not breeding geckos this year or next. We lost our favourite two females to egg binding this year (Celaeno and Keid) and it's sort of put me off. Next year I'm hoping to have House Snake and maybe Corn snake eggs.

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[info]azusis
2007-09-13 07:44 pm UTC (link)
*nods* I'm sorry to hear that. I have two parakeet couples, but I'm reluctant to give them a nest box because of that fear. Even though they obviously want to, so obvious I'm afraid of waking up one morning and finding eggs in either the food dish or the bottom of the cage. o.o;

Hope the house snake and corn snake eggs go well! Corn snakes are so beautiful.

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[info]ssthisto
2007-09-13 07:48 pm UTC (link)
TBH... NOT giving them an appropriate nest box is more likely to result in egg binding (at least, it sure does in reptiles) ... the only way to prevent egg laying is to keep boys and girls totally separate, and even then you can get infertile eggs.

We just got really unlucky with the geckos this year.

I think I'll be happier with snakes next year - especially if my housies get going. They're such lovely-looking snakes, all iridescent over chocolate brown, with white eye stripes.

And, of course, with any luck the Anerythristic pair of corns will also be ready to go - I want to see the babies they pop out... crossing fingers for a Lavender/Anery stripe :)

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[info]azusis
2007-09-13 10:37 pm UTC (link)
We tried that and the noise was deafening from them talking back and forth, cage to cage. I suppose after being together for 5+ years they didnt exactly take to being separated. Don't really blame them. We've never had eggs though, fertile or not, so not sure if we'll ever get any.

They sound like very lovely snakes. :3 *crosses his fingers too!* Do you have any pictures of them online? Would love to see if you do.

One of my friends over here just got a ball python a little while ago, so I've been more than a little jealous. *smiles* I've never had a snake.. only birds. ^_^

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[info]ravynwolf
2007-09-13 07:49 pm UTC (link)
Someone as crazy as we are, yes! I should really post soon about our critters.

I'd love to see some pics of your setups, and see how you house them all.

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[info]ssthisto
2007-09-13 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Got some of the setup photos here:

http://www.ssthisto.com/Reptiles/loaded-vivs.jpg - this is our display stack, in the room with the Tegu, the Mexican Black King, the normal corn Jasper, the leopard geckos, the hatchling rack (which houses the sand boas, the baby royal and the baby corns, plus Pepper the juvie house snake), the slow worms, the adult male royal and currently has a couple of temporary tubs on the floor for the legless lizards, plus housie Cinnamon and mongrel boa Mutt.

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[info]ravynwolf
2007-09-13 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Those are nice, didja make them yourself?

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[info]ssthisto
2007-09-14 06:41 am UTC (link)
No - designed them (size wise, and with the modular setup - the top three are one unit, then the left two and the right three are each their own units) and fitted 'em out with electrics, but had them professionally built. Just didn't want any chance of my inability to use power tools without mishap to ruin them :)

Now, the 6X3X3 vivarium on the other side of the room, along with the 36X18X15 and the seven-shelf 36X36X12 hatchling rack, were all built by me. Once we've got that side of the room cleaned up I'll take a photo of them :)

That big'un is a marvel of engineering. We made sure it would not only take the weight of the vivs we planned to put on it, but actually had both of us walking up and down on it to make sure it'd hold. It had to be built in situ as well - no way to have gotten it through the door OR to even have shifted it otherwise.

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[info]mandarax85
2007-09-13 11:07 pm UTC (link)
Nice to hear from you again! If you ever need to get rid of any of those snakes, let me know, I've been wanting one for a while now :P

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[info]ssthisto
2007-09-14 06:41 am UTC (link)
Well, we DO have seven baby sand boas we're looking to sell....

That said, I'd no more "get rid" of my named keepers than the average person would "get rid" of their children.

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[info]mandarax85
2007-09-14 02:13 pm UTC (link)
Very true when considered that way, forgive my lack of tact. If it's any explanation of my linguistic reverence, I call my own sister "Girl" :p Of course she responds in kind, and it works out nicely for us both *chuckles*

Sand boas? I'm not familiar with the species. Have any particularly good references, aside what I'll find on Google and Wikipedia? Also, is there a feasible way to get one from where you are to Tennessee?

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[info]ssthisto
2007-09-14 02:45 pm UTC (link)
*chuckle* Good point.

The baby sand boas in question are Kenyan Sand Boas - and you'll probably find as good information as you can get here.

That said... probably pretty difficult to export them to the US, on the basis that you'd need CITES paperwork (they're listed Annex II) and it'd probably cost slightly more than an arm and a leg to get 'em.

Besides, you have LOTS of cheap Kenyans in the US - you can get Anerythristics for $80, we pay £200 over here (closer to $400)...

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[info]mandarax85
2007-09-14 04:02 pm UTC (link)
LOL! Pudgy! Very cute. They look like little sausages ^..^

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[info]ssthisto
2007-09-14 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Yes indeedy they do. Little Spotty Sausages.

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[info]nexaris
2007-09-14 05:19 am UTC (link)
That's certainly a lot of critters you have there. Amazing.

Hopefully you'll feel better soon.

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