second check went well, no one has lost weight except Cas, who's lost about 5%...not enough to pull him out, but more than I was expecting. if he loses another 8-10% I'll pull him out early. gotta get his enclosure nice and cleaned in the meantime -_-

yes situla are great! I've seen a few and they really are striking.

there's a lot of people in the US working with Zamenis. I know someone with normal and melanistic persicus and they're tempting 👀

sauromates are on my short list for species I want to keep next, they seem every bit as gorgeous and fun to keep! were they fairly easy for you to find in the EU? they're basically unheard of here.

Gold has been a very intermittent eater since the onset of fall, glad that he gobbled up both fuzzies this week! (Kiki, however, is devastated, because she gets whatever he doesn't eat)

thats a diones rat snake! they have one of the largest ranges of any snake, but her locality/lineage is from Vladivostok.

it's so very silly youtu.be/k9BUxyqTPrU?...

not as loud as a Pituophis but much louder and more drawn out than you'd expect from a rat snake tbh. their whole group is really interesting

hmmmmmm I can DM ya later today when I have time to sit down and explain my Thots, but we'd both have plenty of time to think. wouldn't do anything until she's up and eating

ugh that's the ideal 😭

I'd consider giving Sazabi to the right home, if you were genuinely interested. She has a couple of odd things about her which is one reason I'm hesitant to breed and/or sell her. being ruthless with breeding projects SUCKS

there's only two visual T+ diones in the states of breeding age that I know of (I THINK there's a third but idk parentage) so genetic diversity is kinda hard to come by. I'm more interested in locality/phase animals than morphs but I know people would want them.

Sazabi: my first diones, my baby girl I would 100% regret losing, great Vlad, but maybe pet only
Sinanju: het T+ AND a gorgeous red
Kiki: Xi'an locality, I Want Them
Red: stunning flame, would be stupid to sell?
Gold: visually a bit of a mutt but het T+ and unrelated to Sinanju, which is big

the door is mostly blacked out but I can tell they still see the ambient light, even if there's barely any in that room with the lights off. gotta get more extreme with it auugh