I haven’t posted on this sub in a while but some of you might remember Juno, he was my surrendered Brazilian rainbow boa best known for being a freak of nature at 7ft long. Pretty insane for a male. But he was so much more than that to me.

To be honest I’m not sure what could’ve happened but my only suspicion would be that he was older than we thought. I got him when he was already an adult, he was my second snake and whilst he was estimated at around 5 when I got him the truth is we have no way to be sure. The friend he was originally surrendered to always suspected his original owner was lying or that he might have been an import. The owner was military and travelled all over the world. Never said where he originally got him. I remember the day I met him, I’d seen pictures of them but irl? He was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. I was so lucky to eventually be able to bring him home months later.

I remember how excited I was to be able to spoil him with a pvc 8x2x4 before zen habits left the uk. I remember how amazing it felt seeing him climb to the very top and sprawl out at night the way a rainbow boa should. He had branches, a cat tree, and a 3x2ft ‘pond’ that he loved to chill in.

For years he was my pride and joy, I’ve been up watching him for hours on so many nights.

I often joked about him being a bitey jack in the box at times, he often didn’t want to be handled and that was ok, the times he did were special. Despite or maybe even because of his attitude I have so much love in my heart for this snake and it feels like a part of me is gone. I’m not really sure where to go from here if I’m honest. I’ll probably rearrange my room and see if I can upgrade any of the other pets, I’m sure my water monitor would make use of any extra room I give him, my tortoise too, and my cornsnake would probably love some more climbing room.

Idk, I know he had absolutely everything he could’ve needed or wanted, I studied this stuff so I could make sure my animals always got the best. I just feel like I failed him somehow but I really can’t think of a single that that was wrong or different. This sucks. Thank you all for being along for the ride

Pet sitting my friends red tail boa :3

He’s a rosy boa (and not fully grown) so I know he’s gonna be bitey but I am trying to find the best way to train him not to (cause I really would prefer not to be bitten) when I take him out I use the hook and try to stroke him on the back and then take him out and he seems totally calm and chill and the second he gets close to me, he just latches on and tries to eat me. Any suggestions are welcome (his name is pumpkin spice latte and he is evil and I love him endlessly)

I have a Honduran milk snake that I mist every day, but her humidity doesn't stay very stable as she's in a grated-top tank. I would like to get her a nice PVC enclosure at some point, but I don't currently have the budget for that. So in the meantime, I'm looking into getting some sort of automatic mister/humidifier to keep it a bit more consistent in there. Does anyone have any particular products they like, or ones to stay away from entirely? I'm not sure whether it's worth the extra money to get one of the ones that has a humidity sensor and automatically adjusts the mist amount to stay in that range as opposed to one that you just program to mist for x amount of time.

Thanks in advance, and snake tax of my beautiful girl attached!

A picture of snakes i drew. I know these are not the right size, i just wanted to draw some colorful snakes.

His name is Osiris and he’s a tiny little guy.

I'm not sure what I wanna name them any suggestions are appreciated!!

hi there! i got miss Soliel about a month and a half ago. She is currently eating a rat pup every week and her breeder said she was born in June. She is finally getting curious enough that she is sticking her head out of her favorite hide anytime I am near. Now, I don’t know much, but based in the research I have done, she looks defensive? I have a snake hook coming in to get her a bit more desensitized to handling and she is not hissing but she is significantly more interested now that she has settled in. Realistically, I guess I am asking, give me an ELI5 explanation of snake body language. I want to do choice based handling as well so I am hoping to hear more advice geared towards that. Handling is also NOT a must but I am unsure if I should be handling her while young and small. any help is appreciated!

Spent some time looking for my red-tailed boa to find that he had burrowed beneath some of his substrate. I know he's arboreal, so this could be indicative that he doesn't have sufficient climbing area, but he has hollow logs, outcrops, etc so it's not like he doesn't have hiding places. Should I be concerned by this?

im making a custom tank for my hog island boa, its an exo terra 90x45x90cm, can you please give me your opinion on the background, please bear in mind that its a work in progress, ive used aquarium silicone to stick substrate to the spray foam that ive put down but am worried that the substrate isnt fine enough and that there are gaps, its my first time doing a tank like this, next time in thinking i may use finer substrate

I haven’t held my boa in a couple of days. I just went to hold him and I’m hearing a intermiten clicking coming from what I assume is his head. I assume this is likely a respiratory infection. It’s difficult to get ahold of an exotic vet as it’s after hours. Is this an emergency? Or can I get by by taking him in tomorrow morning?

So as the title says, I have some questions/concerns regarding temperatures as some conflicting information is online.

To start, my snake has been doing very well so far so this isn’t an emergency situation or anything. He eats like a champ and seems to have his routine down for the most part.

The enclosure has an ambient cool side of 78 degrees to 80 degrees depending on time of day. (The room is set to 77-78 degrees normally). The warm side is usually at about 86-87 degrees ambient with the surface temps sitting at 90 degrees and up to 93-94 degrees in the hottest spot which is the top side of the warm hide. The inside of the warm hide reads at 90-92 degrees.

Are these temps ok, too high, too low? He rarely spends any time in the warm hide and spends most of his time in the middle hide which is about 82-84 degrees. That’s why I wonder if it’s maybe too hot for his liking on the warm side, despite being right about 90 degrees on average.

I’ve seen people say that it should be at 90 degrees ambient on the warm side, but if I set it that high, the hot spots get too warm for my comfort and can get up to 98-99 degrees on certain surfaces. Am I being too cautious here? I just don’t want to overheat it burn my snake.

My heating setup is a DHP 100W on the warm side which runs 24/7 on a Herpstat 2. LED lights on a 12 hour cycle, but they give off minimal heat if any. The enclosure for now is a 40 gallon. The snake is a baby and will eventually move into a 4x2x2, but for the time being he seems pretty happy in his current setup. Pics of enclosure attached.

JUST-.... it's not even useful in exsclusively in the US- the UK maybeeee but the snake depicted looks like a rattler???? AAA

I love my little guy but the urea when it goes powdery is very annoying to get fully out, and sometimes even the next day I’ll notice little white bits of urea in the enclosure. Is there an easy way to effectively get rid of urea? As stupid as it sounds I’ve been thinking about getting a cheap vacuum cleaner to get rid of it easily 😭

Some help would be really appreciated!

okey so i have currently 2 snakes (brazilian rainbowboa and ballpython) and im going to upgrade my bp to same size terrarium as what my boa currently has but im struggling to think what could be better for theyr terrarium placements. my boa is still young (about year and half) so he isnt really active and rarely climbs and stuff at least what i have seen but my bp is literally the most active snake ever and she is currently on the top terrarium from the pic and loooves trying to get as high as possible in the terrarium so should i when i get the upgrade, put my bp on the top so she can live her airboreal dreams or put the raimbow boa on top since they are actually airboreal lol im going to have the smaller terrarium on middle so options are either close to floor or close to ceiling lol

Hey everybody, my corn snake was getting ready to shed last week, and did an amazing job shedding. He shed his whole skin over the weekend. Last time I fed him was Friday October 16th because on the 20th he started his shedding process and finally shed his skin yesterday. When should I feed him? I usually feed him on Friday but that means he will have gone two weeks without food. Is that too long?

This is a Repti Zoo RKF241212 36x18x18 50 Gallon enclosure for my soon to be hognose. I bought some large Zilla screen clips that should have fit but they just don’t. It is front opening but still needs screen clips because I am able to push the lid up and I’ve heard that hognoses are very persistent escapers. I’m not sure if I’m using them wrong or they are on right and i just need more in the other sides. I don’t know. Anyone got any tips? Thanks in advance!

I’ve recently had an incident with my cornsnake and he hasn’t been behaving normally since. I think I disturbed him while he was going to the toilet by walking past and startling him, but I think he retracted and then went again later. Later on when I went to clean it there were small drops of blood next to the droppings.

He has since been acting far more erratically, very weary of me which might be because I have spent more time bothering him checking if he’s okay than I usually would - and he did not take the mouse that I offered which was a few days late (I tried to give him time to calm down, he normally eats very regularly with no issues).

No signs of damage or any more bleeding, blood was bright red and not on the actual droppings but nearby which suggests it is some type of cut rather than internal bleeding. He’s still very mobile and reactive and while he is a bit of a jumpy snake he is definitely more on edge than usual. Only other behavioural notices would be that I have seen him with an open mouth a few times in the last few days which is not a frequent thing for him usually (seen him readjust his jaw a few times but never frequently).

Please help and advise what to look out for or what to try him with, i’ll give him another week on the food but I am unsure on next steps. Thank you

So there's a lady in a reptile group I'm in on Facebook who's been trying to rehome her late sons 4 year old ball python. I just had a major surgery yesterday and I offered to take it in once I'm fuly recovered. I've always wanted a snake and just want to clarify a few things before jumping into this.

She hasn't been handling it at all since her son's passing, which was around April of last year. Will the snake still be okay with people or will I have to gain it's trust all over again? I'm also not sure if she's feeding frozen or live, and the cage is only about 67 gallons but bioactive, so I will most likely upgrade to at least 100 and transfer things over.

Please see repost, I’d love any thoughts!

What have been some ways you have been able to convince your significant other to get a snake?

I keep tarantulas, and other inverts(she doesn't love but is ok with) And she even said she would be ok with any lizard. But snakes were a flat No.

Her reasons are they are more scary(than other reptiles), and potentially dangerous to our young kids.

I know they can be dangerous to kids. However, I'm experienced with keeping exotic animals, including species that require extra safety precautions. I'd obviously take every precaution necessary

I'm thinking about just accepting my fate, and looking into a lizard for the family ( Blue tongue skinks have caught my attention)

Any advice?

Daughter wants a snake.... we know nothing about whats needed or general habits. Im looking for advice on a starting point for what we need. Things like how often to feed, when to change tank bedding, etc.

Really starting points for her (8) to do her own "research" on what she needs to do to take care of it.

We dont know what kind of snake yet, (cheap, easy, all that).