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🐍🪳Pleroma🪳🐍
@pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
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🚧 under construction, pardon the dust🚧

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owner of snakes, lizards, and creepy crawlies, with a focus on Asian rat snakes, NW arboreal tarantulas, and funky roaches

check out my "meet the critters" thread!
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happy new year everyone! Mojo wants you to have a great one, and also give him some food while you're at it. sharing is caring. 🦎
a melanistic jeweled lacerta (Timon lepidus) sitting on top of a stack of grey and purple slate rock. he's directly facing the camera
January 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
maybe if you put a leachie on your chest and walk around for a while you'll calm down
a very light green and pink leachie (Rhacodactylus leachianus)perched oh a shirt with a doberman framed by purple lightning printed on it
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
my sweet boy. you're perfect. no notes. 🦎
a melanistic jeweled lacerta (Timon lepidus) resting on a piece of driftwood and looking at the camera. his arms and the visible parts of his body are cloudy, indicating he's about to shed. a painted cactus is visible in the lower left, and more driftwood pieces are in the background
December 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
fat fuck Saturday 🐍
a diones rat snake (Elaphe dione) almost done swallowing a mouse, with just the tip of the tail and back feet visible.
December 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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if he could talk, he'd be begging for food 🐍
an Elaphe urartica staring into the camera, facing right. his body is propped up by a branch and leading upward to a piece of slate. a greenish, plastic rock hide can be seen in the background.
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
Sazabi it is 47F in there WHY are you still active
an orange and red diones rat snake (Elaphe dione) is in a plastic tub. coconut chip substrate fills about half the bin and there are air holes visible. the snake is looking up and to the right with her tongue just barely sticking out
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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someone got her beauty sleep 🐍
A Dione's rat snake (Elaphe dione) is sitting on a branch surrounded by fake vines. She's draped her body up past the camera and back down to in front of the branch
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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first full brumation check-in, everyone looks good. slooowwww tongue flicks are so cute 🐍
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
even more adult giganteus are popping out 🙌🙌 #bugsky
a few adult giant cave roaches (Blaberus giganteus) sitting on pieces of cork bark in a plastic bin an adult and sub-adult cave roach sitting on a piece of cork bark
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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in they go for the long nap...aaahhh
five plastic bins inside of a black wine refrigerator. the bins are clear and coconut husk can be seen inside all 5 bins, as well as a water dishes in a few. each bin is labeled with a name, and current weight in grams. a large thermometer display is in front of the tubs on the top shelf.
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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got a Poecilotheria regalis sling over the weekend and she finally came out for a semi-decent shot. no one told me pokie slings are fuzzy...
an Indian ornamental tarantula (Poecilotheria regalis) sling sitting on a small piece of cork bark. the spider is facing downward and has stripes of light and dark brown on its legs, with two stripes of dark brown going down both segments of the body. the lighter brown spots between the dark stripes form a diamond pattern
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
I got to hold the dad and he was such a sweet chonk of a leachie. if mine turns out anything like him I will be SO happy 🦎
an adult male leachieanous gecko perched on a hand. he's extremely large with light pink banding down the body, split up by dark green streaks on a yellowish green background. small spots of black are in the pink bands, and his mouth and snout are predominantly yellow. several acrylic displays with baby leachies are in the background
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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NARBC was a success, sold everything I had with me AND I got my dream gecko!! Extremely happy with the day.
a leachieanous gecko in a clear deli cup labeled "Pair Y, 8/20/24". the gecko is a light pastel green, with light pink bars down the back and mottled darker green spots between the bars and scattered throughout the body. the same gecko being held in a hand, now far more fired up. the pink bars are more saturated, and the rest of the body is streaked with dark green on a lighter green background. a food scale and contents of a plastic shoebox (lined with paper towel with a piece of cork bark, square water dish, and feeding cup) can be seen in the background. the same gecko again now clinging to a black shirt. to the right is a printed logo partially cut off that says "colubrid" with a grey banded kingsnake and eastern kingsnake wrapped together.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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hateful wench of a chahoua gecko (affectionate) 🦎
a chahoua gecko (Mniarogekko chahoua) on the front of an acrylic enclosure. the door is open and her head is sticking out of the enclosure and looking down. branches and fake plants can be seen in the background the same gecko right after attempting to bite the camera. she's leaning farther out of the enclosure, and has her mouth gaping open as a defensive display
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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FINALLY!! First one to reach adult molt!! #bugsky
a freshly-molted adult giant cave roach (Blaberus giganteus) sitting on a small piece of cork bark being held by a hand. the roach is a light cream color with large wings covering it's body. there's a black patch near it's head with two small white dots in the center
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
I tried getting photos of the earwigs (+ bonus isopods) but they're speedy little dudes
an earwig (Euborellia cincticollis) sitting on the side of a deli cup. it's surrounded by paper towels and bits of substrate from it's original enclosure an isopod (Cubaris murina "Citrus") sitting in the substrate of the same deli cup 2 isopods and an earwig in the same deli cup
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
Psalmopoeus upgrades are a-goin'
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
speaking of lacertids, Mojo being a big ham for the camera as always 🦎
a melanistic jeweled lacerta (Timon lepidus) standing on grey and purple slate rock
October 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
Gallotia galloti eisentrauti, Northern Tenerife lizard. absolutely unreal looking
photo of a Northern Tenerife lizard (Gallotia galloti eisentrauti) sitting on a rock. it's a mostly black lizard with bright yellow and green mottled striping starting at the neck, and gradually fading towards the tail. bright blue eyespots are in two lines down it's side, and it's jowls are a light sky blue. it's front arms are spotted with the same green and yellow as the body striping. photo taken from iNaturalist.
October 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
pleroma-exotics.bsky.social
I fell asleep before I could post examples but this is what I mean. first photo is an African import, the rest are captive bred and posted to social media with no mention or seeming awareness of what's wrong with it
a photo of a ball python for sale from Outback Reptiles; this one is imported directly from Africa, from field-collected eggs. note the proportion of the head before and after the eyes, and the slight rounding of the snout another ball python from an online listing. this one has a straight, square snout that is elongated, and a head that appears "swollen" in comparison (it's not actually swollen it's just the weird head structure) another post with two hatchling ball pythons, both from the same clutch (I think). the one on the left has a fairly normal snout, but displays the odd swollen look on the head. the one to the right has a fairly normal head, but an elongated and narrow snout another photo of an online listing, with a hatchling ball python sitting in someone's hand. the snout on this one is badly elongated and narrow, with an oddly flat head as well. the head almost appears to have the same width as the neck, extremely abnormal for ball pythons.
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Haro was a very good girl at the vet, and I have more direction on how to handle her case going forward. she's probably gonna always need help shedding her face and I should keep her environment more sterile than usual to prevent any infections, if they occur at all 🐍
a top-down view of the head, neck, and part of the body of a ball python (Python regius) sitting on paper towels. a small scab on the top of her nose can be seen a close-up of the same snake's face, facing right. a closer look at the nose can be seen, as well as bright pink heat pits and slightly cloudy eyes. sure is cute tho! a head-on look at the same snake, with her tongue sticking out, as she looks over the top of a large plastic container. you can see the dark scarring on the tip of her nose, leaving it slightly open and lopsided on the left side
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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(TW: frozen-thawed rodent feeding)

same snake, same shit, different days 🐍
a hatchling Dione's rat snake (Elaphe dione) wrapped in a ball around a barely-visible pinky mouse. tongs are still holding the mouse up so the snake is also being held up by the tongs the same snake, now larger, wrapped around tongs in the same manner. the same snake, even larger still, now wrapped around rainbow hemostats holding a mouse. this time, the snake has coiled around the whole length of the hemostats so they are clamped shut while she bites the mouse's head.
September 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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he's my "highest quality" red phase diones and is of course the worst eater, he's lucky he's pretty
an orange and red striped dione's rat snake (Elaphe dione) sitting on a branch, facing left. the upper part of his body is off the branch and curled into an S while he looks at the camera the same snake wrapped in a hand. a fresh shed skin can be seen also held by the hand
September 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I'm obsessed with this creature
a ball python (Python regius) laying in a clear plastic container filled with sphagnum moss. she has her head laying on part of her body in a coil the same ball python, now out of the container and sitting next to it in an enclosure, looking at the camera. the black enclosure is lined with paper towels.
September 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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everybody meet this sweet old lady I adopted from snake discovery!!

she's 31 years old, according to the person that surrendered her, and a former class pet in an elementary school. I am so excited to be her retirement home for however long she has left! 🐍
a ball python (Python regius) poking her head out of a black cloth bag. a hand is under her chin and sunlight is lighting her face. you can see cloudy eyes, a scarred snout, and iridescent scales the same ball python draped over my shoulder, facing right. you get a clearer view of her body, which is dark brown with large, tan/light brown blotches, with white speckling closer to her underside the same ball python drinking from a blue water dish
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM