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I got this lovely series of photos of Nyx coming towards the camera I thought I'd share.

Snake Gender

I often see people use 'gender' when referring to an animal's sex instead of sex. While I understand the word can be awkward for some to use it's the most scientifically accurate. Snakes do not have or experience gender it's a human concept. So when referring to whether a snake is male or female use sex instead of gender! On that same note Male/Female is more proper than Boy/Girl however this is one that can be fine either way.

If you're a casual keeper it's not really an issue but if you're a breeding especially listing animals sex is a much better term to use as it's more accurate. Edit since this post has been doing really well: If you liked this or found it interesting maybe consider checking out my page. I got some baby snake photos and some actual education over there!

I was misting the mantids tonight and Luna came to say hi

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Here's Ramen and Lunarius enjoying their fresh setup! They really love their fake pothos.

In jail for their many heinous crimes

Bath Time!

Here's Nyx enjoying a soak! Lots of garter species like to live by water as that's where most of the amphibians & fish they eat live. It's important to provide a water dish large enough to soak in! They'll get a larger water dish when they move into the 55 gallon with Ramen & Luna after quarantine and an even larger one when they go to their final enclosure! If you look closely you can see Nebula in the background.

If you keep garters or want to keep garters or any other social snake species this is super important you read.

I was feeding Ramen & Luna 2 of my T.s.sirtalis earlier this evening. I normally tong feed them as Ramen is fairly food aggressive and will strike at her sister during feeding time. This time I gave Ramen fewer but bigger pieces and Luna smaller but more frequent ones which helped a lot to keep Ramen away from Luna. However what I was not expecting was for Luna to try to take Ramen's food. Ramen had already grabbed the piece and it was in her mouth when Luna grabbed onto the other end. This was not a huge piece there was barely anything for her to grab onto. I tried to use the tongs to rip the piece in half but it did not work. So I had to grab both the snakes while they were 'Lady & the Tramp'ing and I got Ramen to let go. If I didn't based on the angle Ramen could've kept eating and put her mouth over Luna's head. And garters aren't the smartest so she'd probably keep eating her sister until one of them got severely injured or killed. Garters ARE a social species, they do benefit from being housed with other garters. However this doesn't mean it's without any risks. And please ALWAYS supervise garters when feeding whether you tray feed or tong feed. If you have less food motivated snakes and they're mostly full you can usually walk away for a couple minutes but please don't just dump in the tray and leave.

Anyways they're both fine here's Luna about 30 minutes after the incident coming over to say hi.

A huge thank you to @fellowshipofthenoodles Thanks to their reblog my post of Nyx saying hi is now over 1.5x my next highest post in terms of notes overnight!

When I checked my tumblr this morning to see 40! new notifications I was shocked. Thanks a bunch!