Hydra

[aquamentus_11]

Caught her doing her best ETB impression.

[EasternGirl]

Love those pics! I know I'm probably going to feel stupid after you explain...but ETB? As for the cat...probably not a good idea...they could both do some damage to each other. No luck getting her to eat yet?

[kibakiba]

Emerald tree boa I believe. (ETB)

[angrygamer]

Yeah, it would be helpful. She's probably just really busy. I don't think Hydra would have gotten this long if she wasn't eating for her and I trust her, regardless: she seemed very concerned about her during the whole shipping process and was helpful through it all. I've tried various lids, hemostats, forceps, fingers without luck. She seemed to react best to the live fish, but guppies are $3.50 a pop and that's too rich for my blood. The only other feeder fish available are goldfish (which I'm trying to avoid), platys (more expensive than the guppies) and some shiner-ish looking ones that are too large. I can't believe that she didn't have interest in the trout.....I wanted it.

Where do you go where they are that expensive? When I was feeding guppies I was paying 25 cents per.

As a matter of fact, I think I was actually paying 6/$1.00.

[aquamentus_11]

It's the only pet store in 50 miles, unfortunately. Their goldfish are go for 8/$1, but I didn't have any luck trying to convince them that I couldn't feed those to my snake. When I move this summer, there will be 4 other stores in the area including a Petsmart.

Yes, emerald tree boa. They have a distinctive way of coiling on horizontal branches. The 2nd pic looks like a garter version of it to me.

http://lamutamu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/emerald-tree-boa5.jpg

[EasternGirl]

Oh..very pretty snake...yep...she looks just like one of those in the pic. Yeah, I can't imagine that there are a lot of snake owners in WV. I told my aunt in WV about my snakes and she said "I know what those are...we get them in my yard and I hit them with a shovel".

[aquamentus_11]

haha i asked my neighbors if i could have ups deliver her to their house if they came while i was gone. i told them it was a snake and they both recoiled dramatically yet seriously. i wouldn't put anything past some of the people i've met down here. owning snakes would be the least surprising thing i've discovered.......i had to do free health screenings last fall.....

[EasternGirl]

Do I want to know? I know in Fairmont...okay...let's put it this way. This is no joke. The Johnny Carson show was still on t.v. when I lived in Fairmont. On his show one night, Johnny said..."If you ever want to murder someone and get away with it, go to Fairmont, WV". At that time, it had the highest unsolved murder rate in the U.S. People could walk down the street with rifles and no one would even glance in their direction.

[aquamentus_11]

haha lewisburg (where i am) is very nice. just a lot of confederate flags for a state that was supposedly a part of the union. it's strange that people hang on to something almost 250y old and which they obviously were never affected by and don't fully understand. back home, we never talk about winning the civil war.....time to move on. plus, i can't get an unsweetened tea to save my life down here.

[EasternGirl]

Lol...Buckhannon, where my family is from is pretty nice too. Still a little backwoods...but they have a college there, so they have some college life too.