#my favorite is a lavender morph hognose snake

[cable-salamder]

why send you snakes when you can send me snakes

Well, dear anon. You see.

Anyways have a conda lavender hognose (lavender is one of my favorite morphs)

You can’t see it well here, but in real life they have a purple hue!!!

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Couple of hoggie questions! I feel like I recall you answering some similar things before but I can’t find anything so sorry if you have.

A lot of the sources I’ve seen say that a 20 gal long (for males) and a 40 gal (for females) is good for adult hogs. Is this actually good, or more of a bare minimum type thing? Based on the typical sizes it seems like most hognoses would be able to fully stretch out unless they were particularly large.

Is it fine for baby hognoses to be kept on paper towels? I know they’re a burrowing species so should they get substrate when they get moved to a bigger enclosure, or earlier?

What’s your favorite hognose morph? I love lavenders and snows! :)

I’ve heard that lavenders can sometimes have fertility issues if you breed visual to visual. Have you heard of this?

I love your hoggie Sirius! Is he a normal morph? It might just be the lighting but he looks a little darker than normal in the pictures I’ve seen.

Thank you so much for running this blog! Not only is it incredibly informative, but also super fascinating, and I can’t imagine how much good you must be doing for the reptile community by educating and combating misinformation.

I hope your grandma’s recovering well!

I love getting hognose questions!!

I prefer a 40 gallon at least for all hognoses, but males can get by in a 20 gallon. Hoggies are small enough that a 40 gallon is honestly perfect for every one I've ever met - you can go bigger, but a 40 gallon hits that nice sweet spot of big enough for the snake but not so big they have trouble thermoregulating (they're small enough I'd hesitate to drop a male into a 120 gallon). I've never met even big female hoggies who have outgrown their 40 gallons!

I don't recommend paper towel for any hognoses for two big reasons. The first is that hoggies really really need to burrow, and paper towel just doesn't cut it to satisfy those instincts, so hoggies kept on paper towel often feel unsafe and uncomfortable. The second is that hognoses are not intelligent snakes, and they will more than likely shove their food all over the place while they try to eat, and I've seen more than one hognose kept on paper towel swallow large pieces of paper towel that got stuck to their food because of this. It's okay for snakes to swallow small pieces of substrate while eating, but paper towel is a different matter and can cause a lot of issues.

My favorite hognose morph is honestly just the normal! I love the pattern and the cute checkered bellies. I also like sables, though - they remind me of eastern hognoses!

Lavender is one of those morphs where lots of people suspect there are issues but there's no real proof. I've heard the visual x visual resulting in inferility thing before, and there's rumors that high-content lavenders who've been bred visual x visual for generations might have issues like spinal kinking and facial deformities. It's genuinely very hard to say if these things are morph-related or if they're because of heavy inbreeding in lavender lines - lavender is so popular that a lot of them on the market are heavily inbred.

I love Sirius too, he's my specialest little boy! His pairing was normal x twinspot - in coloration he's a normal but he is a very very low expression twinspot. He's got a couple double spots down his back but the best ones are right behind his head. You're right he's a little on the darker side but he's normal!

[mars-paws]

Favorite breed/morph of cat dog or snake?

Mine is the lavender hognose

My favorite breed of dog is a German Shepard! (Maybe a little biased since I have one lol)

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

What about a hognose sake? I happen to love their noses. 🐍

Precious little derp babies need love too. I’d love to have a hognose snake. They’re an adorable snake breed. Especially all the morphs. Oh lords the morphs are so pretty.

I usually love the Leucistic or albino morphs for most snakes because the color white in an animal is just so pretty. But, for the hognose breed, the cutest is actually the lemon-ghost anaconda morph and the lavender morph (with the albino superconda being my third favorite).

If I could own either one of the two morphs, I’d name the lemon-ghost Deceit and the lavender Virgil just because.

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favorite hognose morphs?

My favorites are probably just normals! They mimic rattlesnakes with their coloration, which is super cool, and I love their black bellies. For me, it's hard to beat the wild type!

If I have to pick some fancy morphs, though...

I do like lavenders! Lavenders on any snakes are always hits for me. I just love the light coloration with the darker eyes!

I'm also partial to toffees:

Super arctic supercondas are pretty incredible:

And I adore red phases: