The Hive Pet Thread

[lostminds]

One of my cats getting ready to go for a drive.

[Overread]

I'm sooo late in this thread that its not funny - however I have learnt that Nid players really do take after there pets with the large amount of reptiles around!

forteh - your list sounds almost akin to my parents list of birds that they own (which mostly comprises of chickens, geese, pheasants, ducks, and er others that I can't recall).


However we also have 2 cats, used to be 4 but we lost two to old age. Sadly we likely won't be able to replace the other two as well. Once they go we will be catless for a while at least - all thanks to this stylish beast:




Thankfully that one time whilst the halti thing slipped off the regular collar (hidden by her fur) around her neck was still attached - either way she didn't go far she was after digging up whatever it was that was right infront of her at the time

[KrakenGenesi]

@overread.....your dog has more style and fashion sense than I do!

[Dro]

He's sexy and he knows it.

[forteh]

A bit later than planned but I got some up to date photos of some of the beasts

In no particular order....

Chloe, boa constrictor.







Sapella, solomon island tree boa.







Bulgari, the girlfriends male jungle jaguar (I think) carpet python.







Bacon, western hognose, mildly venomous, Ill post pictures of the time he bit me in another reply ;D





Scribble, kenyan sand boa.





Phoenix, royal python.





Eric, madagascan giant day gecko.





And when he was a baby licking food off my finger, he is now 10" long!



Boo, the younger male tokay gecko.



Then he got angry and bit me for disturbing his sleep, fortunately it was only a quick tap and not a proper bite!



Miss Giggles, female tokay gecko.





Mr Snuffles, older male tokay gecko. Tokays are reknowned for being very defensive and will quite happily bite and attack if they feel threatened, this makes handling them a potential problem because their teeth are capable of slicing through flesh (see above) and they tend to lock their jaws and hold on till they want to let go (mr snuffles has chewed on a leather glove for 90 minutes in the past before letting go!). With this knowledge I tamed down both of the males (miss giggles is still a lunatic and will bite at any opportunity!) so they could be handled, perhaps you can judge the size of these guys and the power they can bite with





Just tempting him to bite my nose!


Small but very, very sharp teeth!


Snoopy the henkels leaftail gecko I am babysitting for, technically not mine but such a cool animal - on the CITES appendix 2 endagered list!





Thats it for now, its snake feeding night tonight so I will get some rodent demolition photos later, I will also get some of the crested geckos as they don't tend to show themselves until after lights out

[forteh]

The aforementioned venemous western hognose bite
He bit me at about 5 in the afternoon, because he is rear fanged venemous (as opposed to front fanged like a rattlesnake/cobra etc.) he has to chew to deliver the toxin; he did this for about 5 minutes before I managed to dislodge him, the pain was much akin to being stung twice by a wasp ever 5 seconds for the time that he was chewing - in the mean time I took photos ;D







Western hognose saliva has an anticoagulant so the wound kept bleeding for a good 45 mintues.



Swelling starts here.....





Within 3 hours my hand had balooned.
Here is my right (non bitten) hand.



Here is my left (bitten) hand at the same time.



By the third day the swelling had reached my elbow and my whole left hand was immobile. By the fifth day the swelling had mostly subsided but joint stiffness continued for several days afterwards

[forteh]

More photos of reptiles I'm afraid
There are some small fluffy mammals involved aswell ;D











Unfortunately, both of the royal pythons decided they didnt want to eat last night (royals are notoriously fussy eaters around this time of year) so I had a spare rat going spare. I left it in one of the royals tanks overnight incase he decided to eat it later, was still there this morning to it got fed to the boa who is now looking very decidedly bloated and not moving very much!

And some of the crested geckos as promised.

[acmemyst]

Yes! Love your Cresties

they don't tend to show themselves until after lights out

About this, how many hides/dense foliage do you have in your terraria? I've been reading a lot about them, and increasing the amount of hiding space they have available would supposedly encourage them to also be more visible during the day. Having said that, they're still nocturnal animals of course, so I guess in part it's just natural.

[forteh]

Typically they will sleep where they're most comfortable, sometimes this might be out in the open, sometimes hidden; some cresties have very different attitudes to others - styx (the tailless one) is often out and about during the day, where as ramases while hardly ever be seen, even at night time.

I try to make sure that they have plenty of foliage to climb in because this can support their tails, some lines of crested geckos have lower bone density and because they often sleep nose down, gravity causes their tail to flop down and twist the hips.

[t⊗theark]

Looks like I'm not he ony reptilian nerd.

[carnogaunt]

Macklots Python