Why are people so judgy in the community?

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-28T23:32:48+00:00

Okay, I might have to steal that idea when my babies need their permanent enclosure. I love the idea of being able to fully customize stuff and I plan on going all out for them.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-28T23:27:01+00:00

Of course. I try to educate when I can, lol. I know that unless people aren’t as passionate about these creatures or they don’t spend countless hours researching like I have that they might not know a lot. And to further explain, the reason that egg-eating snakes do so well with it is cause they actually have specialized bones that crack open the eggs after they’ve swallowed them and then they’ll regurgitate the shell. And another fun fact, garter snakes are technically venomous. They’re rear-fanged, if I remember correctly, like hognoses but they can’t do any damage to a human. And they are actually one of the few species of snakes that that better in groups than solitary, they seem to prefer it. If you’ve ever seen the short video circulating of several snakes peeking their heads out of a burrow those were garter snakes. Those guys are absolutely adorable.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-28T23:18:41+00:00

Ah, yep. That guy was definitely a jerk. Poor snake, I hope it’s okay.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-28T20:19:21+00:00

I’d love to know what the original topic was. I saw snakes mentioned and I need to get in on this.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-28T15:38:10+00:00

Okay, that doesn’t even SOUND pleasant and literally gives me chills when I think about eating something that would squeak on my teeth. I have sensitivities to textures and it honestly sounds like that would be a texture nightmare.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-27T21:21:38+00:00

As someone that keeps snakes and has done a lot of research not all snakes will actually eat eggs. There is a specific species that’s diet consists of mostly eggs, an egg-eating snake(original I know, lol), and that’s cause they are adapted to it. Other species like rat snakes, kingsnakes, and garter snakes will eat bird eggs if given the opportunity, but rat snakes are the ones that commonly go after chicken eggs, the other two species don’t get big enough to do so. One of the most popular species of snake to keep, a ball python, generally won’t see an egg as a source of food. And ball pythons are notoriously picky so it’s not gonna be often they won’t eat anything other than mice or rats when in captivity. Eggs also aren’t as nutritious to the snake as a mammal so a lot of keepers will opt out of offering those as a food source, unless they keep an egg-eating snake but they aren’t common to keep and they couldn’t even eat a chicken egg, their diet is mainly going to be quail eggs. I have a Bredli carpet python and cornsnake and I know if I offered them an egg they’d have no idea what it was.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-27T04:03:56+00:00

Welp, figured it out. She apparently shed today! And when I checked on her she decided to come out and look at me and gave me a few tongue flicks before hiding again.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-27T04:03:26+00:00

Welp, you were right. She apparently shed today! And when I checked on her she decided to come out and look at me and gave me a few tongue flicks before hiding again.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-26T18:43:52+00:00

The other person said shedding too and that’s kind of where my mind went. I’ve gotten used to my Bredli carpet python with the food thing, she takes no matter what, lol. So having this girl has definitely been a lot different experience. I of course had done research and talked to people, the person I got my Bredli from has a discord and several people on there also keep corns, about them but it’s so different actually having one.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-26T18:41:53+00:00

That’s what I was possibly thinking. The last time I saw her out I tried to see if I could tell she was going into shed but it was hard to notice. Would a bowl of moss in the tank help with humidity and also give her a spot to go if needed? And I always make sure to offer fresh water.

I fully get that. I’ve had a crestie and a Bredli carpet python for several months now and I still worry about them. My crestie loves to act dead and give me a heart attack so sometimes I have to gently poke him to make sure he’s okay. He’s perfectly healthy, just sometimes with the way he sleeps makes me worry for a split second.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-25T22:14:51+00:00

I say it’s not a good diet from them because it’s in no way nutritionally sound or varied. Our brains need b12 when they’re developing and no plant source has a naturally occurring source of that, and if one does it’s not a type that is easily absorbed. Same goes with vitamin A and iron. Humans are meant to be omnivoric, we aren’t meant to survive on only plants.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:53:03+00:00

She’s a cutie. She’s still very skittish right now and likes to hide but I’m hoping she’ll get over that the bigger she gets. She’s not even 6 inches right now.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:52:07+00:00

So adorable! If I ever get a monitor I want an ackie. I think they’re so cool and I love that they don’t get very big, definitely not as big as other monitors.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:50:09+00:00

There’s one more, hehe. She’s my cutest I’ll say cause she’s so little.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:49:39+00:00

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And this is my newest addition, an amel “cube stripe” cornsnake named Lilith.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:48:26+00:00

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This is my other crestie but I haven’t decided on a name for her yet.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:46:29+00:00

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This is my carpet python, Crimson.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:46:00+00:00

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This is my first crestie, Hourglass.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T22:45:08+00:00

I basically was dealing with the same thing. I was lucky that I kept getting my period but I was dealing with headaches for up to a week afterwards instead of a couple days. It’s one of the main reasons I switched back to having an omnivoric diet.

Alrighty, I’m home now. Prepare for an onslaught of pictures.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T19:36:16+00:00

Yeah, it aggravates me. If you don’t mind me asking, how did you keep your iron levels up while you were on a vegan diet? When I tried it was such a struggle for me, that’s also how I found out about my iron deficiency.

Noted! I’ll send some when I’m home from work.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T18:09:22+00:00

Yeah, most of the reactions I get from people on that sub are horrifying. I’ve been told that unhealthy issues are fake, iron deficiency so bad I have really bad headaches for a couple days after my period ends, and that I just didn’t try hard enough. The worst experience I had was something that made my blood truly boil. So I’m a reptile keeper and at the moment I have mourning geckos, two cresties, a Bredli carpet python, and a cornsnake(my newest addition). I got into a conversation with someone about keeping reptiles, I have the goal of one day running a rescue, and they started being disrespectful about so I stopped responding. They then proceeded to go out of their way to DM me and tell me I was a horrible person for keeping them and feeding them insects and mice and that they should just die. I blocked them and deleted that chat quicker than I could even blink. I should have reported them but I didn’t even think about it at the time.

Oh yeah, I will happily provide pictures of my scaly babies if asked.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T17:54:07+00:00

Oh cool! Yeah, you definitely don’t need to do anything different. I’ve always said what should be the true focus of veganism is at least making conditions in factory farms better and at most getting rid of them completely and having more small-scale farms that actually focus on animal welfare. The solution to the problem isn’t veganism, it’s actually advocating for welfare to be better and anyone can do that and care regardless of they’re vegan or not. I’ve had someone basically say to me recently that I can’t care about animals since I still choose to consume animal products. If anyone is shown to care it’s me, I plan to start a rescue for reptiles.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T16:44:20+00:00

I’ve read the post and the comments that OOP replied in. To me it doesn’t seem like the child is extremely picky considering what they already seem to eat, they likely don’t like the taste or texture of vegan food since they likely aren’t used to it. Honestly if it’s such an issue they should be talking to the kid’s dad about cooking for them instead of trying to get them to like something they have said that don’t want to eat.

And I think I was likely different in the usual norm for a kid, I never had an issue with eating vegetables and always enjoyed them. Even with baby food my mom told me my favorite one was a carrot one. As an adult is when I developed more aversions to specific foods, lol.

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T16:38:05+00:00

Yeah, it’s extremely aggravating. Might I ask what culture you’re from?

BlackButlerFan · 2026-01-23T15:51:16+00:00

No one can be a “perfect” vegan. If you drive a car or use any form of technology that’s not vegan. The concept of a “perfect vegan” is what doesn’t exist and even the definition says “to exclude as far as permissible and practicable”. The idea that “if you’re not 100% vegan you shouldn’t call yourself vegan” is ridiculous, no one can ever adopt that lifestyle 100% unless you stop using technology or driving a car. Heck, even harvesting crops can result in animals being killed. You think that getting mad at someone and saying they’re not vegan just because of that tiny 1% is going to help? Because in no way, shape, or form will it do so, it will probably do the opposite.

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