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Thank you - to everyone for your kind words and well wishes about my little spill last week – I am doing much better – but feel like I’ve been walking around with a hangover for the last week!!!! Since I am going to get my head examined this afternoon, I'm posting WIR really early this week! Hope you all have a good weekend and a Happy Easter or whichever holiday you are celebrating this weekend!

When treating your snake for mites please use this PAM: not:

Favorite Thermostat Query …. Look at it this way – For cages your thermostat needs to: 1. Be able to be set at a certain temperature and maintain that temperature plus or minus a few degrees and 2. be able to shut off in case of heat tape or thermostat failure – most do - it’s not rocket science - in most cases a $50 thermostat and a $250 thermostat work just as well. For incubation you will need something a bit more precise – or do you really?

Yet another TV show capitalizing on how terrifying snakes are, spreading disinformation and showing the general public how stupid and inept herpers are! Oh yea – thank you animal planet!

Tim Bailey

Poll Results – Percentage of Balls in your collection off feed:

Can humans get their pet sick?!? – That is the age old question – in most cases the same virus’ that get you sick will have no affect on your pets. Unfortunately there are other ways that people and animals pass around germs that make each other sick. But snakes don’t catch the common cold.

Legislative alerts (check the links for info):

Louisiana’s got a new one which knocks back the 12 feet rule to any constrictor … HB783

California’s got a new one in the works – tho it isn’t aimed directly at herps it looks to impact your ability to feed them. AB 2862

New Incubator thread – great pictures of a cooler incubator in progress. Cooler Incubator

IMG theories – here’s mine …. Alien life form plain and simple

Please do not release your animals – interesting thread about FLs proposed law that would require python buyers to complete state training, buy a license and face jail time if they let their snakes loose.

Websites – if you are going to have one, spend less time trying to make them look perdy and more time keeping them up to date.

Threads From Hell

None this week!!!!!

Quote of the week:

I begged and pleaded, I danced naked to the snake goddess. Melinda666

This Weeks Clutch Count:

(Cinny, YB & Pastel) x Normal = 6 eggs - snakebstr

Pastel YB x Granite = 6 eggs - RinL

Hypo x Normal = 5 eggs – muddoc

Albino x Normal = 8 eggs – JDouglas

Pastel x Normal = 5 eggs - nita

Pastel x Normal = 5 eggs KMS

6 clutch and 9 clutch of ? - Melinda666

Some overlooked posts:

pastel brightness question
Got a new cage
Atlanta Reptile Show Question
Question About Breeding Het Albinos

PICTURES OF THE WEEK
I am dedicating this weeks Pictures of the Week to all the threads and pictures of the Clowns from this week. Cause ya’ll know I’m a sucker for the clowns!
Bryan Kollwitz

Garrick DeMeyer

Celia Chien

Genetic Stripe and Albino Breeding (coldbloodaddict)

Looking for Jessica Albino - markalan

Jaguar (winkle)

Pastel Ghost (AFR)

You need a good foundation..... – (Garycrain)

Something I'm working with (gailt)

Beautiful Granite about to Blow!!! (RinL)

Spider Breeding (swich)

My Balls- Close up pics (markalan)

A possibility for me – wftright

A new friend

Ohhh Crap, Another ovulation - kylescott

Headless Ball Python? - Kevin_Arbogast

Pics of My Big Ball Python - Paradon

Snake plant - rosey-b

Butterscotch Stud - delphipythons

Happy Easter / Passover

My scaly family - perseus



Well he’s not scaly – but that is one gorgeous face!

A man, some hockey and his ball….

My Newest Ballpython. - MarkS

New addition: 05 1.0 spider - Toshi

Easter Surprise (me)

Meet Loki, my one and only ball python! – venomlust
Img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/Venomlust/DSCN0339.jpg[/img]

Have a Great Weekend!!!!

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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

6.34.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi)
0.1.0 Bredls Python (Smurfette)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.4 frogs rescued from pool skimmer
0.0.0 Lizards of unknown origin

I hope everything goes well for you at the doctor's office, and thanks again for a great WIR. I had missed most of the clowns in the confusion of this week. They are spectacular animals.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

Take care of that head! and thanks for taking the time to post a WIR, awsome pics, what a soldier!!! Take care.
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I have Balls!

One of the things I've missed most these past two weeks my computer was down . Thanks Tosha. Another great WIR.

Quig

Thanks for your TWIR, and especially the clown photos.

Great work, and you might want to keep the whole snake hobby thing on the down low at the docs office... Never know what those crazy docs will do, no, really.

~Johnny

That was a good comment. It's true, but it was also funny. In this case, I can see the doctor writing in his notes, "The patient suffered a head injury last week and now believes that there are dozens of snakes living in her house. She claims to like them, but I'll need to order more tests."

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

Haha, yeah, and then recommend you to a therapist. Whom he also just so happens to play golf with... Damn them for their nice cars, good paid off education, and lavish life-styles...

~Johnny

Great WIR Tosha! Love those clown pics.

Great WIR as always. I love that smiley poking the red x lol

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1.2.0 ball python (aragorn, arwen,`eowyn)
1.0.0 100% het pied (frodo)
1.0.0 columbian boa (squiggles)
1.0.0 rat snake (alabastered)
0.1.0 corn snake (baby)
0.0.2 whites tree frog (trevor, kirmet)
0.0.5 pacific green tree frogs
3.2.0 cats (rockie, bs, brownie, lerrado, kole)
1.3.0 kids (dilyen, dakota, chyanne, sierra)
Brian n Chrissy
"snakes are kind of like potato chips, you cant have just one"

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Thank you,
Dave