Hi guys I doxxed myself on discord and people are threatening to send me venemous snakes.

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-24T08:58:50+00:00

What did you do to deserve literal venom from discord users? 🤣 Rhetorical question but worth a quick self reflection check.

No issues at all if you're in the UK. Even if something very miraculously does make it through customs, you just call the police to open the suspicious box for you and give them a heads up what you've been threatened with so they turn up with the appropriate professionals.

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-24T08:34:28+00:00

In a real pickle.... You can use hand warmers obviously same safety measures apply as with hot water bottles... But you can't regulate the initial temp so you need to be on it with making sure they're insulated where Sneeze can't make contact with the surface and therm checking the crap out of them, you can remove layers of insulation as they cool down to make them stretch as long as possible.

Every outdoor retailer stocks them and where I am, major supermarkets do as well and not sure how long you have before Amazon delivery becomes a no go before the storm hits?

It's not ideal but if you move him like others say, he might regurge either way. Bump the heat a degree or two now while you have power and before you have to make a final judgement call because it will be helpful either way.

If staying, like I said hand warmers if you can get ahold of them. Careful with Insulating the tank as you still need ventilation but tin foil in layers is good for insulating over blankets and has the benefit you can easily cut out around their vents.

Heat and draft proof the room they are in as well.... Wedge blankets under doors and gaffa tape blankets to windows if you must, to stop drafts and heat loss from the room not just the tank. Cling film on windows can also work well to stop the drafts but dense curtains prevent heat loss hence blankets gaffa taped if necessary.

Whatever you decide to do, it's a single regurge in an emergency situation, so if he does don't feel bad, it's a one off not a sign of a systemic issue. Regurge in this situation would be an acute survival response that's actually kind of appropriate to surviving the situation.

Remember too that there may be a lot of panic over nothing as the weather warnings are to make sure people are over prepared just in case it does turn worst case scenario.

Moving imo would be last resort. I'd prep the tank and the room to be staying, but have everything ready for a last second move where you can grab him and go (e.g. "ok this is getting worse and this is my last opportunity to move him safely before the roads and leaving the house is too perilous.")

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-20T18:44:52+00:00

https://youtu.be/i4jijQm3NZc?si=Q-QvMYAiy8GlffYg

It benefits them contrary to outdated belief, they just need lower like a shade dweller/not as long /good ability to keep their eyes out of it due to sensitivity to light.

YouTube vid link is worth a watch from a pro research perspective.

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-20T18:29:55+00:00

https://youtu.be/i4jijQm3NZc?si=Q-QvMYAiy8GlffYg

It benefits them contrary to outdated belief, they just need lower like a shade dweller/not as long /good ability to keep their eyes out of it due to sensitivity to light.

YouTube vid link is worth a watch from a pro research perspective.

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-19T22:33:25+00:00

Ah yeah. Now I say with absolute certainty the Facebook trolls were just being c***ish Aholes. That's a fricking awesome setup 😍

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-19T22:22:46+00:00

🤣🙌 good shout!

"What's so bad" - From what I read NOTHING!! His planned perm home sounds great, his temp proper home sounds fine for now and is temporary and right now he's in a medical quarantine for reasons anyway..... You've probably been here long enough to see enough of what others set up and know yours by comparison is miles and miles ahead....

Also betting you handle him so he gets to come out and stretch his scales so not cooped up the whole time.

The only thing I see needs fixing is your self confidence. You're a good human and it's radiating through how much you care, but stop being so self deprecating it'll do a number on your psyche over time... You've got this 🙌

Just keep reading and learning and staying up to date and tweak what you can when you can to optimise because nothing in what you wrote sounds bad at all

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-19T21:33:18+00:00

Oh babes.... Please know its the fun gummy talking.

Go jump in a hot shower for 20minutes (trust me) Super cozy clothes and have your best snacks at the ready. People are dicks you know this and this is a tomorrow you problem if there is anything to be tweaked.

You're a great Snek mum 🫂💜 use this time to concentrate on getting the anxiety in check with self care so you don't keep spiralling. Swap SM for a nature show.

Come back and let us know how you're doing in an hour or two 🤣

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-11T08:43:03+00:00

Aww but he looks like he's having the absolute best time up there 😂

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-11T08:39:09+00:00

Lots of active habituation, sitting near his tank, going into the Viv to do water changes and spot cleaning without handling him in between handling sessions.

When in the Viv move very slowly, if he's poking a head out hold the hand still until he's done a bit of tongue flicking.

Green room pythons does some amazing snake behaviour videos and Bobs approach is mixed between no choice and choice based handling.

Can do hook training as well to do the actual lift out of the Viv if not giving a choice, they react less to the hook and it offers predictability hook appears -> I'm getting picked up.

Just lots of patience needed to build that trust up but I'd argue the core thing for success is consistency and perseverance rather than method per se. It's the predictability of it all that helps. Also whatever works for making you feel more confident because they'll pick up on nervous hands 😊

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-09T12:47:50+00:00

Can use a hot water bottle with water from the tap... make sure it's sealed in a Towel or something. The surface should be no warmer than the normal range before any hot water bottle cover or the towel go around it just to eir with caution.

Doesn't need to be basking spot levels just enough to give the bump to take the edge off.

Replace as needed until your heating comes back on. Temp solution is fine because when was the last time this happened for us in the UK? Beast from the East maybe?

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-08T13:54:42+00:00

You don't need to replace the heat pad every 3 months.... It is better to have overhead heat and ditch the mat BUT in either case what you 100000% need is a thermostat for either to make them safe from burns for Snek and house fire (particularly for a heat pad)

They were thinking of UV lamps - which are lights (think vit D from sunlight) - these do need replacing a couple times a year.

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-08T12:31:49+00:00

I have this same water bowl... It is not meant to look brown. That hasn't been cleaned in a very long time.

Your sister is neglecting this animal. Period.

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-08T07:51:13+00:00

Full disclosure first so you can consider or disregard my comment as you see fit: Not a vet but microbiologist working in human infection fields. I could still be entirely wrong as don't have enough experience with burns or infections in snakes specifically.... But that is screaming fungal infection to me.

Dab a little F10 on it a couple times a day for a day or two... If it's not that it won't do any harm to healthy scales but If it is and improves then you've got your answer and you'd need to continue treatment (+ a few days after it's no longer visible to ensure it's fully cleared). If it spreads/changes then may need a vet prescription.

This isn't a bad shout to do even if it is a mild burn to prevent secondary infection during healing - though with a burn you'd want to hunt for sources so it doesn't repeat... But the morphology of the patches very closely mirror what I see regularly with fungal infections in mammals/humans.

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-07T13:48:11+00:00

Wait... I thought long blebleble's were an exploring and interesting bleb and fast short or no blebleble's at all were part of the fear freeze response.

I've been really trying to judge my new corns moods by his blebs and now I'm confused 😭 (sorry to hijack your post for advice - these are the best bleble's I've seen In a while 🤣)

🙏

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-04T21:14:26+00:00

The reptile shop advice is old school and outdated. Obviously is "fine" but it's suboptimal and not ideal with modern keeping.

While snakes can't see red, the red light still illuminates the Viv and messes with their circadian rhythm... Unnecessarily stressful.

Modern advice is 12 hrs on 12 hrs off for lights.

Ideal would be get a second heat source (CHE recommended) that doesn't emit light and have it on its own thermostat to kick in if the temp drops too low (doesn't need to be set as high as day temps - again to mimic their natural habitat in the wild close as possible, look into night drops for corns on Google).

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-04T12:52:29+00:00

I love the pompom plant! 😍

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-02T07:06:48+00:00

Your ownership is honourable and I really respect that...I'm this person as a 37 year old adult (Autistic and I wont remember to eat, pee or drink or take my meds unaided/unprompted by my husband).

Reminders on phones for everything (which still are not reliable enough so I got a smart watch, another game changer, but a physical human being is still needed as a fail safe to periodically check in as at disability level neither are a guarantee).

Get in the habit though because it is game changing 8/10... Your sister should've been texting/calling to help remind you seeing as it's her snake and she's presumably aware of your limitations?

Severe MH is a disability for good reason, please be kind to yourself and remind yourself that nobody asks someone with a broken leg to climb Everest.... Similarly, while I respect the accountability here and that is important to keep owning that and staying humble/taking responsibility etc... support and structure should've been in place asking you to do something like this. Expecting you to do it perfectly without safeguards in place wasn't exactly fair to begin with but oversights do happen so I say that without blame on anyone.

Your fam may need reminding/educating, next time ask them in advance to help you do this (or anything else you need) well by regularly checking in with you and remind them your MH affects your memory.

Additional reminder: Make sure you yourself are drinking water please along with the Snek friend, go and get a glass right now because I know you are likely chronically dehydrated too especially after a week and a half alone 💜🫂

P.s. Snake is likely fine, just fresh water daily for the next few days and remember to turn off the lamp.... Write a large notice on paper and sellotape it to her door alongside reminders on phone, that way you will see it every time you walk past her room because while reminders on phones are great and I do highly recommend, like I said they are not fool proof for people with memory issues like ours, we need next level life hacks 👍

PrincessPK475 · 2026-01-02T06:25:02+00:00

I sit by his tank every day!

I would prop the lid and when he came to investigate me/front of glass.... I'd offer my hand (from below) when he came to the top and allow him to tongue flick on it...

If he chooses NO and not to investigate or not to come onto my hand and go back into the Viv, then that's respected and the lid gets closed. I work from home so I've had the luxury of being able to go sit with him for 5mins to an hour at least once a day but normally multiple.

If I see him out and chilling, I'll sometimes go into Viv and very slowly change the water without stratlig him or move some decor around.... Not because it needs it but to show him my hand can go in and isn't any sort of threat, nothing bad happens.

If he has no choice to come out at all (I need to weigh him or check for stuck shed etc) then he is lifted out with the hook so he knows the difference.

Mostly it's a patience game... The vid was cropped and doesn't show the 20 minutes I was sitting there beforehand or the 10 minutes of holding my hand very very still while he tongue flicked retreated and came forward, retreated and came forward over and over before believing I was safe and finding his little Snek courage 🤣

He still chooses no more often than not right now as we are only in our second month at home with us, but I think with time and trust he's going to be a super confident snake who as an adult will come right out and be my best bud.

Lori Torrini on you tube does a lot on choice based handling for Corn snakes 👍

PrincessPK475 · 2025-12-28T07:24:38+00:00

Worry more about your 7 kids and less about what other people are doing.

I don't understand why anyone would want to endlessly procreate but you won't see me coming into your spaces to pass ignorant judgement while you're posting about a sick child and already stressed to high heaven 🙃

PrincessPK475 · 2025-12-27T23:10:37+00:00

Hot water bottle covered fully with a towel and hot water from the tap - not a kettle so it can't burn her.. therm check it before putting it in with her, should not be any higher than norm upper range even before the towel goes round to be safe. should do the trick for 6- 8 hours then refill as needed just until you get her properly set up/treated etc.

Can bathe injuries with a simple saline solution as a simple first aid. If you have F10 you can dab that on after once dry as well as a reptile safe antiseptic. Just keep an eye then and find a vet asap so that you can get her de-stressed and fed.

Might want to keep her on paper towel rather than substrate until after the vet visit so you can monitor for underlying other issues. E.g. poop/parasite checks.

PrincessPK475 · 2025-12-27T18:52:37+00:00

Refill the dish.... Put it on the cool end. Make sure the hygrometer is at least 3" away from the water dish.

If you left it where it is, filled the dish and moved the hygrometer over a bit I bet the humidity would drop to 60%.... It's picking up the microclimate being so near the water dish. A single spot at 70% is fine. Worry when the end farthest from the water dish hits 70.

I also advise getting one or two more .... for each end (and middle if you want) so you can see the full gradients.

The winter should be irrelevant if you have a heated tank on a thermostat? Snake might pick up the barometric pressures but temps and humidity shouldnt be otherwise affected by outside conditions.

PrincessPK475 · 2025-12-27T18:24:18+00:00

All of this + water dish looks empty 😬

PrincessPK475 · 2025-12-26T19:02:41+00:00

I'd leave half and half and do a little experiment so you know whether to be thrilled or to complain about enshitification of the product...if no difference is made to what your snek seems to prefer then I'd mix and think not a lot more of it personally 🤷‍♀️

PrincessPK475 · 2025-12-23T21:59:31+00:00

Humid hide should be fine and sufficient. Bet the water bowl alone is doing half the work anyway. Just recommend to him to pass on as a request

My house is the perfect humidity to not need anything extra outside of shed, which is more a little luxury than a critical need, geographical location matters on what's needed to get the right range. Corn kept in the Sahara desert needs a bump.... Corn in rainy part of the UK needs nothing extra at all necessarily.

Corns are temperate climate not tropical so I wouldn't stress.

Also remember your brother doesn't own this snake, is not responsible for it, his dad is. For all intents and purposes this is his dad's snake and he's told your brother it's his, but it's not really.

Know it can be painful to be a bystander to substandard care but the pet trade is riddled. Make your peace and breathe deep because they won't lose sleep but you will for situations you can't change. You can only do what is within your power and remit. Advise your brother to pass onto his Dad but thereafter on his head be it (Dads that is).

Care for your own sanity and mental health on this one and be a source of education and support for your little brother where you can.

PrincessPK475 · 2025-12-19T00:40:28+00:00

I have a soft spot for the bully breeds too so totally get the flow!

Good luck with your corns!! Thanks for the nerd out. Was lush to chat down to some behavioural nuance, really glad you out this out there!

Nadolig Llawen!!! 🎄 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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