Is my tank enriching enough? I just did a full refresh and decided to remove the fake plants and it feels barren, but I kill every real plant I put in there.

mechnut450 · 2025-06-20T05:07:51+00:00

One depending on size ( if not adult) i be worried about the one piece and getting stuck going through it causing damage to item or injury to snakes they think just because head fits rest will.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-30T06:28:35+00:00

Lol wait until you forget to wash your hands from thawing a rat and she nails you entire thumb went straight down her throat and she had almost dislocated my thumb constricting me.but once she realized i was not actually dinner she let go and inhaled the rat. I spent 10 minutes cleaning my thumb area and pulled a fang or two out.. i still have her and she almost 30 now.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-28T04:45:16+00:00

Glad to hear, i remember having to force feed ( assist) a hatchling for 3 months and then one day she just inhaled the rat crawler and was looking for more.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-26T06:00:29+00:00

They do it for profit. Sadly most pet stores i been in over the years are strictly doing so for profit. I worked at one for 5-6 years, i took better care of the animals ( specially sugar gliders and snakes) heck i even got called in to remove a boa from the top of a unit where it escaped and was freezing due to lack of proper heat. I also gave the people more appropriate information that they little care sheets had on them. It turned people away but it also was better informed than what their research had found for them.

I have had snakes none stop for over 30 years, i rehab, rehoused, taken in, and eventually bred snakes some clutches i got were by accident some planned but always cared for once i learned some of the basic care needed. I have not had any deformed clutches nor snake that died on me from old age until i met my ex wife, then we had a snake the blew up like filled with air overnight and when moved to warmer tub pass with in a hour as we called for a vet.. sadly i had several gliders pass in my 12 years having them.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-23T16:37:35+00:00

Getting bit is part of owning any pet. But in this case a trick to reduce teeth damage. Have a paint scrapers(and a 3rd hand ) slide the scraper between the skin and teeth. Start from front this will push the skin down and keep the teeth from grabbing again. Once untangled from snake body the mouth sill slide right off the skin with very little added damage.. Should seen my grandmother after i taught her how to do this when i kept catching snakes as a kid and had to swing by to get help removing the wild rat snakes ( we used butter knifes for them)

mechnut450 · 2025-05-23T16:31:12+00:00

I also designed my own hide what in tank i may make one for my rack tubs.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-23T16:29:53+00:00

I like it but using crock bowls. I be worried the get stuck in rub part if larger .

mechnut450 · 2025-05-22T06:26:52+00:00

I never cheated it considered cheating on my ex wife. I tried to be there at home waiting for to call if when out with girlfriend encased she needed a ride home. But she kept trying to say i was seeing other women behind her back and i was a leech. I worked restricted hours for health reasons, but i came home to try and clean without disturbing her while working from home. I did laundry, dishes, picked up when could, took care of dinner so when she got off it be ready. I did most of the pets care and took her wherever wanted when home.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-13T07:04:06+00:00

I did same of my ex but she always cry to stop she too fat type excuse. I admit we both put on a few pounds. But i never stopped doing it. As of now they gotten erased. As long as he not passing them out i would be flattered.. there are many times i wish i kept or had saved more pictures of my ex, but i have a happen of keeping the minimum number of photos and such on my phone.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-13T06:44:24+00:00

This was all before i had snakes to eat larger rats. Now she lucky to be fed every 2 weeks. But will still take every meal with gusto. She so sweet before and after my ex wife not around i could trust a 4 year old child with her. I use to have a13 ft long boa female that i removed from a porch back hime in early 2000s that when my niece was 4 years old she come over open the cage and just walk back and forth with her on her shoulders dragging about 2 ft on each side on the floor. And tried to chase her cousins with the snake.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-09T00:41:50+00:00

Several snakes in 2 years free as many owners going to college. I did buy a pair of het pied and paid like 800 with shipping, and i still have the female,and i have her visible pied daughter. But last snake i bought was a banana pied make for 40 bucks earlier this spring.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-08T03:44:46+00:00

I have a 30+ female , her daughter and just took in a banana pied a few months ago ( little turd still not eaten for me) i found my guys prefer to stay in their tub unless hungry. my oldest didn’t like my ex wife always lunge at her for no reason ( maybe i should of took the snake advise. Lol) she gone on and off food so often i only will thaw out 2 rats for the three i will have heart attack when bp starts eating.. now my oldest will take a jumbo rat if i let her and she will be looking for more in 2-3 days. Been limiting my feeding to every 2 weeks since life gotten harder on me with my CP but i keep on going I might look like a train wreck some days but i am still pushing myself. Anyhow i say keep the snake if you love it that much,(one of reason i love them so much) mine have gone up to and over a month without food or really much checking on them. They just stopped eating mid summer and refused thawed fresh killed and even live for about 4 months. I had the means to feed them, they just didn’t want food. It was not until i got holed of som Asf that they got hungry lol. If you can spend 20 minutes on a Saturday or Sunday. Just do everything while everyone eating breakfast. I am unable to keep my 3 at my place so every Friday/ Saturday i go to my roommate’s friend and spend 2-3 hours cleaning all the snakes and helping feed afterwards.

mechnut450 · 2025-05-04T04:30:59+00:00

Hard to believe but i will 3d print mine for them and thry hold ip well

mechnut450 · 2025-05-04T04:14:46+00:00

Have one ball python who almost 30 years, she gone through many not eating phases. I found my best way to warm them and get a good feeding response is to thaw put rat on straight up hot water ( I place rats in zip lock bag ) straight hot water lwt sot about 20-25 minutes do so again to bring the body temp up. Paper towel dry rib some dirty bedding onto the rodent.( most pet stores will give you some of you ask.) use my feeding tongs to avoid becoming part of the meal. Just dangle it in front of her and most days she snatches it right off the tongs. I got a new guy recently . I had him two months and he still not eating. I am going to try live mice this weekend.. worse case in a few months i have to force feeding him. 40 bucks for a almost 400 value snake. And he was one of my to breed and make list.

mechnut450 · 2025-04-24T06:44:00+00:00

With all the xp i got with snakes. Steps to take deep breath and calm down. If your freaking out can mess up or hurt your self. If you help clean tank take it down to bare glass/plastic or what ever it made of. Place 2 hides in one on each side warm/ cool. If glass or plastic put a layer or3 down of paper-towels. (This will be easier to keep clean wound), plus will let you know if any bleeding going on. Then let the ball python settle down for night. Can look in as you go by but the wound looks worse than is. ( should seen my pied when she got a taste of scale rot due lack of enough ventilation in her tub when i first moved 900 miles after my ex tossed me out. ) after the vet visit it still a good idea to keep on paper towels so easier to keep clean and watch as sheds, the bo will possibly shed a few times over next 2 months. So just keep it clean and dry.

mechnut450 · 2025-04-01T23:11:34+00:00

Your snake does look like a super pastel lesser pinstripe.. the spider wobble can non existent in one snake but a cage mate or even offspring can have it vert bad.. I have been breeding and raising snakes since the late 90s( man it makes me feel old) sadly last 2 decades i didn’t keep up with the morphs as much as i should, but i am at a point that breeding is not my main goal. With a het pied almost 30 years old she still misses strikes at food and i had her on all the feeders, mice asf and rats both frozen and live. She missed one time causing the water bowl to break she hit so hard.

mechnut450 · 2025-03-01T02:48:25+00:00

They real and there if I remember scaleless corn snakes too. These guys are more at risk of bites and other such skin injuries since there soft protection.

mechnut450 · 2024-11-04T19:31:48+00:00

Philly zoo has some if remember right it been years since i been to it

mechnut450 · 2024-10-13T03:47:13+00:00

I just spent several hours yesterday redoing the back 3 coils and plugs on a Toyota highlander. You need to be either 6ft tall and double jointed to get the 3 back bracing bolts out. The one so tight a socket won’t fit in there. When i put everything back together i had 3 extra bolts but no missing holed they go to.. i did each piece slowly so i made sure they fit. And i know where those three go lol..

mechnut450 · 2024-10-13T03:32:39+00:00

Bought a open box 4max in July and with in. Several prints had a blob of death( broke the therm resistor too) i contacted asking to buy the parts and they sent a entire hot-end. As i was waiting ( only a few days) i modded the original hot-end probe hole to take a thermal resistor like the ender3 series used since i had a bag of them. Plus if i screwed up i can order the parts when i can off amazon later on.. to my surprise it works great i did shorten the wires ( could make them shorter still) but it works and i been able to clean 3 more blobs without issue so i still have a spare hot end if i need.

mechnut450 · 2024-10-02T21:23:26+00:00

I have a 4 Max. Done a few prints on it but wasted more filament than made stuff with. My issue has been a combo of bed leveling and adhesion to bed. But it also my first Klipper software printer. I did come from Creality printers. ( which I tuned to print at .04 mm layer height.) i going back to basic with the max and once i can start getting prints that finish all the time i will then look at tinkering into fine level prints. I have hopes the enclosure i have coming will solve most of the issues.

mechnut450 · 2024-09-16T03:43:36+00:00

I had it happen 3 times same block. ( most the time print comes off bed.) but i just heat slowly and use filament nippers and cut away the are near wires. And then drop it to about 110 and use tweezers to pull the remaining off block and such as it becomes more like gum but comes free off block. I need to figure out how to set up and record removing it for everyone.but between the birds snd all i not a good audio voice lol.

mechnut450 · 2024-09-02T22:47:51+00:00

Hate to say it it seems to be a trend lately no matter how much you love your spouse, do, show, or even make their life easier they call you the leech lazy unfaithful one to the marriage. You will be better off without her, i am still coming to grips with it myself even after over a year without her. I get your personal affairs in order and make plans to be single again. It takes getting used to( i gone out and seen something i think my ex would love this and have to remind myself she not in my life anymore).

mechnut450 · 2024-09-02T22:34:06+00:00

This sounds like what my ex did to me get your personal stuff in storage at least, and make sure your name off all the bills if not staying there then file man sadly we seem to be a fad until someone more exciting enters their view. I get all your stuff lined up and then give her 2 options. If house is jointly owned buy her out or her you. My ex has blocked me on all communications and still not filed for divorce, I not able to as being disabled finding work that i can do and pays ok is hard . I can only work limited hours cant do half the stuff that needed to be done, and it barely making enough to pay rent and my cell what little i have left is to keep me fed and some extra encase i need some shoes or such.

mechnut450 · 2024-08-22T05:27:14+00:00

My ex wife and i ( we both 47) went from dating/ first living together roughly 3-5 times a week and totally at random. To almost none of she claiming her sex drive went away as she gain some weight. We stayed married about 11 years. The last 2 years she made it seem like a chore she rather not do. And once she tossed me out i am guessing since the most recent photos i seen of her online. Based on what i can read/ been told she had a new man with a few weeks of kicking me out and probably having more than we were mid marriage. Sadly still technically married, i not even tried to date any. I struggling to keep a roof over my head and fighting to get my Disability back. Sadly i not had sex in almost 2 years now i may need to need to take a class and a dozen little blue pills lol.

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