Marnie's Snakes

[ConcinusMan]

Little Joe is albino...can't use florescent can I?

Why not? A regular white florescent bulb does not have UV output and even the ones made for reptiles have very little and none beyond 12 inches from the bulb. Of course, I posted the suggestion before I saw the other responses. If you're going to have to buy something then why not just go with some white LEDs.Both options produce light that is a little "colder" or "whiter" than natural light though. I prefer a spectrum that's a bit warmer, more natural but the snakes probably don't care.

[EasternGirl]

Right...that is what I want...LEDs. But I already have the ones like Michelle was suggesting...the batteries just run out too quickly. I wanted to get a strip light fixture that I can somehow rig up to my wrought iron shelving...I was wondering if anyone knew of something that would work.

[EasternGirl]

So it's feeding time...and last night it was time to feed all the babies. Thank goodness I thought to move little Athena out of the bigger babies tank. I don't feed the babies pinks very often...they love worms. I chopped the pink up into tiny pieces which created quite the bloody mess...I suppose that had a lot to do with the frenzy that ensued. I have never seen anything like it before! The little fat buggers went completely insane! They were jumping in the air and biting the sides of the tank...they started attacking each other...at one point, Zeus took a big old bite of Bella and wouldn't let go. I picked them up to try to get him off of her and Bella decided she was going to fight back but got me instead of Zeus. She bit down so hard...I yelled. So, then I had Bella hanging off my finger with Zeus hanging off of her...I'm yelling "Let go of her!" to Zeus and they are flailing around and flipping musk all over and my finger is bleeding and my son is like.."What the???". For the next ten minutes I had babies jumping up and biting my fingers....blood all over my fingers, which were swelling up at this point. I must have been bitten twenty times! I'm breaking up food fights and yelling...it was like some kind of snake royal rumble in there! I left Athena in a separate tank for the night. Crazy arse hopped up on pinks baby pig snakes!!!

[guidofatherof5]

I was picturing this whole thing and rolling on the floor laughing.

[Light of Dae]

Aaa HA HA HA Thats awesome! Sorry bout your fingers but that would be very funny to watch. I'm with Steve *Roflmao*

[EasternGirl]

It would have been really funny if I wasn't so irritated at the time. It would have been a great video...so that I could laugh about it later. I totally saw the humor in it...but I was being ganged up on and kept yelling at the "kids"...lol.

[kueluck]

Poor baby Bella. Does she have any lasting injuries from this?

[Selkielass]

Wow! My little butlers liked to steal worms from each other, but it never got that crazy!!!
My eastern and checkered sometimes go nuts grabbing for rodents, but I've never had to referee more than two snakes at a time.

[EasternGirl]

It was the craziest snake thing I have witnessed yet! I checked Bella thoroughly. I thought for sure she would be injured. I see no bite marks, wounds, and she seems fine. I'm keeping an eye on her. I had swollen fingers for a few hours. The more I got bitten, the more I bled, and the more I got bitten! I told those babies that they will not have more pinky for a while. I might have to start separating them to feed.

[kueluck]

Happy to hear that Bella is okay. I feed mine individually on my lap. This you can do when you only have 4 snake mouths to feed.