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#1233336 TreF View Profile	My Hog My snake is doing really well. Some of you may remember him having problems trying to eat me.... well turns out he was just doing an open mouth threat display. I left him alone for a few days and he was fine after that. He has not done that since, even when moving my hand quickly in front of his face. he is eating very very well. i swear this guy is going to be really fat lol. He eats 3 pinkys every 6 days or so. Not sure if he is a male or a female yet, his tail is a lot shorter than the other hog at the store i got him at. Here are a few pics. let me know what you think about him.. He is not in the one with the cage... he is hiding. I think im going to name him Ocelot. His favorite thing to do is make tunnels in the aspen. he will make tunnels and use them over and over. its kind of funny lol. he does get rather upset because everytime i need to take him out of his cage his aspen holes get all messed up and he has to make new ones lol. One question though. as you can see he is very small right now.... wait picture time, he is saying hello. ill post it another day. lol he is making new tunnels. sorry back on track. he is very small and im wondering how much bigger he will get. i cannot find any pictures of adult ones anywhere. anyone have a link? i hope he gets bigger than he is now lol. As of now he is barely smaller than the biggest part of my pinky and id guess 8 inches long give or take. i heard they only grow 1-2 feet laters : )
04/04/07  02:37am
#1515360 Giosnake View Profile	Message To: TreF   In reference to Message Id: 1233336  My Hog CUTE!!!
11/15/07  09:32pm
#1515492 JackAsp View Profile	Message To: Giosnake   In reference to Message Id: 1515360  My Hog Mine does that tunnel thing too. I’ve gotten better at probing one finger at a time into the bedding; as soon as I touch her she comes up to the surface begging for food and comes right over to my hand, and the tunnels are left largely intact. Males are about a foot and half, but thick. Females are two feet, often a little more, and very thick. My female is 14 months old, probably an inch under two feet, and at her last two feedings weighed (these are before eating/after eating weights) 200/222 grams and 214/237 grams. Her weight was still in the 50s at the beginning of summer, and while I also go three mice per feeding back then I was using the smallest fuzzies in the bag. Now she’s ready to start on hoppers as soon as she fnishes a few more large fuzzy meals. But still, she is nowhere even close to the girth of an adult. Forget about snakes. Picture sausages.
11/15/07  10:46pm
#1524976 Repfanatic View Profile	Message To: TreF   In reference to Message Id: 1233336  My Hog This is my little boy, Chubby. He’s a Western Hognose. As you can see he’s nowhere near full grown yet. He’s very mellow and the only thing he rarely does is hiss at us (mostly when he’s in shed). When we feed him we have to guide him to his food or he will start chewing on the first thing he comes in contact with when he smells the pinky. They are interesting creatures.
11/24/07  03:56pm

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