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Well here I am doing this for the 2nd time tonight. I am going to do the short version now. I already got all the way to my final thoughts and had a problem and lost it all so here we go, Please forgive the short version my my hands already hurt from doing thise onse here tonight LOL

THINGS TO CONSIDER
DHL account
giving up on eggs
Identical twins?
Corn Snakes are supposed to be docile
About a picture that has been on here...
Activity level of cornsnakes
Proper corn incubation temps...
favorite thermostat query...

QUOTE and TIP OF THE WEEK (all in one):
I thought corn snakes were supposed to be docile snakes Corn Snakes are still snakes, They do bite, Goto love them

LONGEST THREAD OF THE WEEK:

WOO HOO The WIR is the longest thread in the last week WOOHOO

PHOTOS OF THE WEEK:
Thanks everyone

BREEDINGS
HE FOUND HIS WAY!!

Blood after a breeding

THINGS THAT SUCK
Help! Sick Creamsicle!


I am sorry but this just sucks. How can you look at your snake every day and not notice somthing like this coming on long before now?

UNANSWERED POSTS
I am a little disapointed in us this week. I think this is the most unanswered posts I have had to list. Normaly we are good about replying to all but hmmmmm, Maybe we were just extra busy this week.
codom or dominant corn morphs?
Now I can finally get started
Part 3 of 4
Part 2 of 4
red candycane
05 crimson corn
Frozen Rats - where in Atlanta?

FINAL THOUGHTS:
Well there you have it. Once agan I would liek to say sorry for posting the short version but my eyes are burning right now LOL I look forward to see what the next week will bring and keep posting those egg pictures as they will most definitly be in the top ten "unless we have more than 10 mposted he he hee" Good luck to everyone out there in what ever you are doing, Be safe, have fun and thanks for reading.
My Research and Collection

I THINK THIS VERSION IS JUST FINE!!!!!! i will try to help answer the unanswered posts too....even if it is "hey...whats up??" hehehe anyways good job!!!!!!!!!! ~kin
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNAKIES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude)
1. unknown hypo? normal? (Romeo)
.1 Miami Phase (Emily)
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury)
1. Classic het Hypo, Anery, poss het Amel (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy [Emilys babies])
.1 Amel (Pepperoni)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss het Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Classic het Hypo, Stripe (Gracie Lou)

Rats:
1.1 Black rats (Cecily, Willard)

Cal Kings:
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Skunky, Dweezil)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LEOPARD GECKOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. Normal het Midnight Blizzard (Mr. Spot)
.1 Blizzard

~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLE~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)

Ya, I think this week was an off week. Maybe everyone is busy with their corns and eggs. I know I was just recouping from my trip.

Sorry you had to do the WIR twice for this forum. Nice Job either way.
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**********Misty**********
The more things change, the more they remain Insane!

2.1.2 bearded dragons
0.1.1 water dragons
1.3.3 leopard geckos
12.20.0 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
5.2.0 king snakes
1.0.0 royal (Ball) pythons
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
0.1.0 rat snake
1.1.0 Leucistic rat snakes
0.0.2 prairie ringneck snakes
0.1.0 chilean rose hair tarantula
1.1.0 emperor scorpions
1.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrots
0.1.0 German Shepherd hybrid dog

Hopfully things will be back to abnormal soon. The past week has been very trying around here and the simple task of staring at the computer for a couple hours has proven to be exausting. Today I get to run up to the local pet store and try to dump a couple of Columbian Boas on them. I realy hate to get rid of my Boas but the fact is I must give up my reptile room for my Daughter and simply do not have the room to house the Boas anymore but thats ok at least I can keep my other herps. I moved my entire mouse collony out to the garage and I am hoping and praying that the cold temps wont hinder them productionless. I have had problems in the past with mouse production in cold temps so I am keeping my fingers crossed. The good thing is I have 10 breeder mice so even if they produce less I only have 3 small snakes that are still on fuzzies so they should still be able to keep up. Well my babbling is over, I am off to the pet store to see if they are ready for the Boas.
Foot Hill Reptiles

jasonw: "I am sorry but this just sucks. How can you look at your snake every day and not notice somthing like this coming on long before now?"

Yes it does suck, especially since he didn't make it.
FYI he was fine on 4/8/06. This was a sudden-onset condition, not chronic.

No, I don't handle my snakes every day.
No, I don't disturb them in their hide boxes every day just to look at them.
Yes, I care about my snkes.
No, I didn't delay in getting him to the vet as soon as I was aware.

FWIW me and the vet will do a necropsy tomorrow and expect the biopsy results this week. I will post the results.

Thanks to Steves-Kiki and Cornsnake00 for responding to my Help post.

Respectfully,

John D
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0.1 Creamsicle Cornsake "Yolanda"
1.0 Bairds Ratsnake "Steely Dan"

Yes please keep us up to date. I would be very interested in hearing what condition can not only come to light but kill a corn snake in 3 days, I would like to know what to watch for with my own snakes
My Research and Collection

The date was incorrect. When he ate on 4/1/05 I saw no outward sign of anything wrong. The head shot I have posted was taken on March 3, 2006, and he seemed perfectly healthy at that time.

Why did he die? Was it something I did or didn't do, or was it inevitable?

I don't know.

Speculation is pointless - more will be revealed.

10 days is still pretty fast for visible signs to come up and all the sudden for the individual to pass from them, However we do not yet know what the cause was so maybe it was something you did not see. Maybe he just passed from old age. I am sorry if my comments sound rude but I am a stickler for my what I would refer to as perfect herps. Not a scratch, not a bent scale. I have several of them out every single day handling them and visually inspecting them. The only blemishes I see are on my female Eublepharis Macularis from nips from my male while breeding.
My Research and Collection