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According to her, she's a deadly rattlesnake-cobra hybrid. To us, she's a saucy little western hognose snake named Horchata.

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Thank you for your patience while the owner, Sam, has been sick! Let this be your cautionary reminder to get your flu and COVID shots before you end up like her ~

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The antibiotics seem to be doing their job on the secondary bacterial infection and she'll be back online regularly soon. The hatchlings are doing great, and the rodents have started their next round of litters, so we have a lot of work to do while Sam recovers!

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Meet Milk Tea and Horchata, our unrelated het leucistic breeding pair from Fox Science! 🧋🤍

We're hoping to produce leucistic animals in a few years, which we'll likely cross into our snow line to increase genetic diversity. Plus, what line can't be improved by adding some ravenous Orange Juice genetics? 🍊🧡

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Cactus Juice! It'll quench ya! 🌵💦

Thanks to Darkseid Hogs for sending us this gorgeous watermelon-line axanthic girl! She's on the spicy side, but she wont hesitate to snatch food right out of your hand. She'll make an excellent addition to our breeding group once she's up to size!

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Meet July, our male black head pastel 50% hypo. He has good reason to be afraid of blue hedgehogs with all those gold rings... 🦔💙🥵

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This boy is SPICY and his looks match his personality! Calico GHI lesser pastel 50% het hypo Click here for more information: https://www.morphmarket.com/us/c/reptiles/pythons/ball-pythons/1819402

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Meet August, our "two-faced" female calico lesser pastel pinstripe 50% hypo with an interesting spot of paradox split down the center of her face. Needless to say, we were freaking out when she first popped her head out of her egg a few weeks ago!

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Ball pythons: sweet as pie ~ 🥺

In honor of my new best friend Pastry, here are some snakes with pastries. Pastry is a pastel ball python, so she is most similar to the first snake.

(pls not: no snakes were harmed in the making of this art. also dont give snakes cake)

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New gene combos just dropped!

i had the idea for some cool pythons. they were supposed to be ball pythons but i guess they're more like carpet pythons

get it

carpet

pythons

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This artists creates some of the best visual guides to ball python morphs out there!

science sources (x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x) other (x)

This snake morph guide is just meant to explain some basics of morphs. I would caution anyone in buying a pet that takes a high level of care just because it's pretty, and frankly any breeder that continues to breed morphs with physiological and neurological defects should be put out of business. I did my best as I find this interesting and believe there's a lot of misinformation out there due to people trying to literally sell things to their audience.

I included some links if you would like additional reading. They range from a study on captive care management, studies I could find relevant to the severe issue morphs, and some general on snake color and scales.

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Funny looking banana

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Went to Gary Park in Georgetown, Texas a month or two ago! I was able to get some amazing shots of quite a few herps, including the western ribbon snake above!

I’ll be spacing out my posts, so expect more updates soon!

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Malcolm's Pit Viper (Trimeresurus malcolmi), family Viperidae, Borneo

Venomous.

Photograph by Ryan Lam

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Ball python glamour shots!

Caduceus (black head pinstripe leopard lesser het hypo pos het piebald) x Dierdre (pastel enchi)

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Baby hoggie glamour shots!

Boba Tea (axanthic arctic conda pos het albino) x Orange Juice (albino conda)

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Little carpet python anatomy!

A fun challenge and learning experience from 2020 😊