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 #2046647


Aandfsoccr04
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 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

I got a new baby hognose snake this weekend and think it is a western as that is what I am told but I just wanted to make sure. He is sooo cute and tiny with a biggg attitude.



07/28/09  12:10pm

 #2047003


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   Message To: Aandfsoccr04   In reference to Message Id: 2046647


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

I don’t see what anybody would gain by lying about it; westerns are the least expensive species. Show us a picture, though. Everyobody loves a baby hognose.
07/28/09  10:19pm

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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 2047003


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

well i just got this little guy from a reptile show and from my research i believe it to be a western.




soooo tinyyy!!!
07/29/09  06:31pm

 #2048473


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   Message To: Aandfsoccr04   In reference to Message Id: 2046647


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

Looks like a Western Hognose to me. Good luck with your new snake :]
07/31/09  02:33am

 #2049004


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   Message To: TiffRockz   In reference to Message Id: 2048473


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

How long have you had him?
08/01/09  02:27am

 #2049719


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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 2049004


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

I just bought him at a reptile show last weekend. so a week today.



08/02/09  07:13pm

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   Message To: Aandfsoccr04   In reference to Message Id: 2049719


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

Give him something he can burrow in. You mention paper towels and a hide box on the other thread. Decent setup for some species, but hognoses dig. I don’t mean "squirm throughba leaf pile" diging, I mean actual tunnel-making. Bullsnakes are suposedly also burrowers, but the nosing around of substrate that my bull does sometimes is nothing combined to the intricate three-dimensional environment that my hognose maintains. Many of them in captivity do live on paper, but it’s not by choice. If you want to really minimize adaptation stress, let hognoses burrow. Besides it being the only physical activity they do for exercise, it’s also how they choose their perfect temperature for whatever metabolic needs they have at that particular moment. The hide box offers one temperature. A network of burrows through the entire substrate offers many, many temperatures, and lets him be equally hidden no matter which he chooses. Sure, you’ll often have to poke your fingers in there a few times to find him, but it’s not that big a deal. Droppings will usually be on the surface anyway for easy spot-cleaning and the snake will still come to the surface for water and for periodic lookarounds, but most of the time it will stay in its tunnels because that’s hognoses like to do. Gerbils like to run on wheels, birds like sitting on pirates, and hognoses dig tunnels. Best way to assure he settles in properly is to let him do what his instincts are telling him to.
08/03/09  12:10am

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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 2049905


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

so what kind of substrate do you use?



08/07/09  02:42pm

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   Message To: Aandfsoccr04   In reference to Message Id: 2052731


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

aspen is good for burrowing
08/07/09  11:06pm

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   Message To: Pyrrex   In reference to Message Id: 2052907


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

is aspen good for hognoses though



08/09/09  11:07pm

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   Message To: Aandfsoccr04   In reference to Message Id: 2054000


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

yes
08/10/09  12:39am

 #2054847


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   Message To: Pyrrex   In reference to Message Id: 2054044


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

i stuck aspen in there so I hope you’re right!
08/11/09  12:24pm

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   Message To: Aandfsoccr04   In reference to Message Id: 2054847


 Anybody good at identifying types of hognose?

Do not feed him on aspen. Either feed him in a deli cup or soemthing, or put his food on some kind of a placemat. Hognoses are very messy chewers that will get a lot of shavings in their mouth if allowed to. Their digestive acids are no good against plant matter, so internal injuries and impactions can easily result.
Oh, and if you do the deli cup trick, have the mouse in there before you add he snake. You don’t want to get him in the habit of watching for fingers when he’s hungry!



08/15/09  04:05pm


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