On Christmas Day, Yormungandr will have been with us for 8 years. He was the length and thickness of a pencil. Now look at what he just shed!!!!!! #yormy #cornsnake #cornsnakes #snake #snakes #blackcornsnake #yormungandr #albino #albinocornsnake #fancy #fancycornsnake https://www.instagram.com/p/CmR5MoiOz1Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
HAPPY SWEET 16, MY BOI !! 🐍💖🎉🎆 Having fun exploring the mess of blanket! I can't believe it's been 16 years!! Soon he'll be off to snake college, for snakes. Let's hope he gets into CORNell Universssity, U Penntherophis, or Columbrid Uni! 🐍📚🛴🤓 Send Demo a birthday mouse on CashApp! ➡️ $CoriPGLN ⬅️ 🐍🐍🐍🐍 #snake #snakes #cornsnake #cornsnakes #snowcorn #albino #albinosnakes #snek #snakesofinstagram #scalebaby #reptile #reptiles #pet #pets #petstagram #colubrid #elapheguttata #pantherophisguttatus #cute #cutesnake #birthdaysnake #snakebirthday #petbirthday #birthday #bday #16 #sweet16 #16yearsold https://www.instagram.com/p/ChDxDRXJXYa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
i really really like your snakes they are gorgeous :3 ! Do u own any that arent corn snakes or do you just keep & breed cornsnakes? /lighthearted
Hello friend!
Thank you for a lovely compliment!
There's a little western hognose with a naughty name (that he came with and I thought was funny/fitting enough to not change); two Texas rat snakes named Calvin (scaleless) and Dilbert (leucistic); four eastern black rat snakes: Melanora Nightshade, Deathshadow, Lord Ravensdark V, and Amaris Melantha; and four albino blotchless Everglades rats snakes: Kevin, Taffeta, Peachpit, and Mouse.
I do have snakes that aren't corns! I just don't post about them often because they're hard to photograph, don't enjoy handling, or do but require two hands.
Hi there! My name is Morgan, I’m a 31 year old reptile breeder, artist, and weird animal enthusiast from North Carolina! I’ve been keeping reptiles seriously since 2009 and have been producing them on the small scale since 2015. My tumblr blog is very casual and I love interacting with followers! Don’t be afraid to reach out! This is gonna be a long post but it will answer a lot of questions and should be helpful!
Contact Info:
Email - [email protected]
Discord - sunfish-exotics#2698
You can also get in touch with me through any of the following
My website is - www.sunfishexotics.com
(although it needs A LOT of reworking! It’s on the to do list, I promise!)
You can also find me on:
Morph Market
Happy Dragons
Facebook
Instagram
I am going to put the rest of this post below a cut but it does have very important info about my art, my projects, and my expo schedule so please click through!
These are the places you can find and order my artwork! If you see my art for sale elsewhere it is NOT being legally sold- please send me a message so I can deal with that if you see any of my pics out in the wild! I take commissions for a variety of art (digital and traditional) and also occasionally take on commercial work for other reptile businesses. If you’re interested in my art shoot me an email!
Etsy - Toadshade Terrarium This is my main hub for custom orders as well as handmade goods!
Redbubble
TeePublic (new and under construction!)
RainbowMealworms is a partner and is permitted to sell my “Pastel Bearded Dragon” sticker.
REPTICON - https://repticon.com/
CHARLOTTE NC
July 8 & 9, 2023
October 14 & 15, 2023
December 9 & 10, 2023
RALEIGH NC
August 12 & 13, 2023
November 25 & 26, 2023
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CHARLOTTE NC
June 10 & 11, 2023
I currently work with and produce the following species:
Leopard Geckos
Western Hognoses
Northern Mexican Pinesnakes
In the past I have also bred Cornsnakes and Leonis Kingsnakes.
I am raising up the following species with the intent to breed eventually!
Meow there :3, hope you are doing well; have some asks
Please dont feel obligated to answer them all I went nuts
8/28/58/63/77/88/91/92/93/95/98
Thank you have a nice day 💛💛💛💛💛
Meow there :3
Honestly, my mood is a tiny bit strained given I probably put too much emphasis on the success I've seen other people have on IG yet that is my own silly fault :'D Other than that this feel like a big calm before the storm moment (the storm being me going to Finland next WEEK OVO!?)
Oh wow that's a lot of questions x'D you know me tho; I love answering silly things so I'll give it a try x'D (under the line because this will be long and rambly if I know myself x'D)
Hope you have a nice day as well ^V^ 💛
8. 5 top five of ... something :'D? I think you forgot to insert a subject for me to rank x'D
28. Favourite icecream:
I love pretty much all sweets related to liqourice and ice cream is no exception x'D (yes, I am odd person loving liqourice :'D xD)
58. Have you ever cheated playing a game:
Probably but I can't recall a good example on the top of my head :'D
63. Have you ever touched a snake:
Yes :3 In my childhood I went to this after-school activity center where they had an albino cornsnake named Sir Hiss and I pet him a few times ^V^
77. Have you ever laughed until something you were drinking came out of your nose:
Oh yes ... I remember one time where I'd just put my lips to a glass of milk and somebody said something so funny I laughed into the milk and the bit of milk I had in my drink sprayed like a waterfall out of my nostrils (sorry for that description x'D)
88. Have you ever brushed your teeth?:
Pretty much twice a day for 28+ years :'D although tmi there has been a few nights where I've either forgotten or been too tired to do it before bed :'D xD
91. Have you ever been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?:
Actually, I don't think I have OVO I have probably fallen in on accident but never pushed x'D
92. Have you ever been told you're hot by a complete stranger?:
Risking sounding full of myself yes, yes I have :'D It is both flattering (sometimes even a source of gender euphoria) and strange yk :'D
93. Have you ever broken a bone?:
Nope. I have been worried to have strained some at one point but all I've been able to do at this point is twist my body around (hypermobile child here) so it hurt like a strained bone :'D
For context: I headcanon Draco has MANY exotic animals as pets, some of which being a King Cobra (King), and a Boa Constrictor (Sniper) who oddly get along very well and like.. do not like being separated.
Bonus: he has 2 Burmese pythons, the oldest (an adult) is named Ceasar... and is a girl.. yes Ceasar as in Ceasat Salad. Her full name is, in fact, Ceasar Salad, and his reason was he couldn't think of anything better... the youngest (a juvenile. Definitely not full size yet hence why Draco will be appointing her flower girl) is named Burma.
He also has a cobalt blue (tarantula) who he oh so creatively named Cobalt, he has a Candy Cane cornsnake he for some reason named Jalapeño, and an Albino Cornsnake he named Fettuccine. He laughed for a good hour while picking those names and it stuck. Jalapeño and Fettuccine are also siblings- a brother and a sister. Guess which is the brother and which is the sister. (Spoiler alert: Jalapeño is the sister)
Don't ask why he named some of his pets after food.
He has a ball python he named Bob. The most human name and so far the most normal snake he has... Bob is a girl too lmao- he named her Bob before he found out she was a girl but he decided not to change it so whenever he tells people about her he's just "Yeah I love Bob, she's my pet snake-" "SHE?" "Y e a h."
Anyways!
Draco, casually just: yeah I'm working on helping King get the courage to propose to Sniper... they're dating right now but he wants to marry her one day.
Hermione: wait... your snakes... you're... doing a wedding for them... snakes can't even be in love?!
Draco: BUT THEY CAN! And when the day comes literally everyone in the school is invited to the wedding, doesn't matter if I like you or hate you. It doesn't matter if you hate me, you'll end up going out of morbid curiosity on what a snake wedding looks like! And then you're just stuck there looking at a small venue for animals with bigger seats for the humans in the back!
Blaise: who will be the flower girl?
Draco: Burma will
Blaise: she's gigantic tho?
Draco: she still young! The ring bearer will be Cobalt!
Theo: THAT'S A SPIDER-
Ron: A S P I D E R ? !
Draco: I DON'T CARE!
Halo: you're the priest!
Draco: No, I walk Sniper down the aisle! Ceasar is the priest
Halo: who?
Hermione: I'm oddly invested in the snake love story.
Blaise: I get excited and scream for Theo saying season 3 came out only to be disappointed that they STILL haven't gotten married with a thousand children yet.
Draco: ceasar is my oldest Burmese python
Halo: did this motherfucker just go to southeast Asia or Florida to yoink a Burmese python?
Draco: that would be Burma. I found a Burmese egg and yoinked it and that's how she's here now. I volunteered in Florida for a time to help with your uh... Everglades situation
Halo: aw, thanks you're so kind!~
Draco: Ceasar, her original owner was going to abandon her because she got to big so I offered to take her since... they're invasive outside of southeast Asia.
Halo: ceasar like the salad?
Draco: y e s
Draco: anyways, everyone is invited to the wedding. Extra info: Sniper is a boa constrictor
Blaise: an unlikely romance!~
Halo: I'm not even surprised. You have a whole ass king cobra on your shoulder. Hearing you have a boa is the most normal thing I've heard you say all day.
Draco: I have an Asian forest scorpion aka an emperor scorpion
Halo: I WANNA SEE- I kinda wanted to get that instead of a cornsnake.
Note: I am not a snake breeder/owner, this is simply information and photos i have found online and believe to be factual after researching. If i get anything wrong, please tell me and i will correct or remove it :)
Have some random TR headcanons while i procrastinate on my art and writing, oopsies 😗
Draken will play a harder rock/softer metal while workin in the shop, such (his top pick is guns n roses, paradise city is his fav)
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The kawata twins are albino (i have some evidence to support this)
The kawata twins are also blaisian (black & asian)
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Mikey and emma are mixed as well (their mom is American, their dads are japanese)
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Mitsuya and draken are total snake guys
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Baji pretends to like snakes, he was weary meeting Mitusyas snakes (he has green tree python & lavender cornsnake), but screamed like a little girl when draken snuck up behind him and put his massive burmie on baji’s shoulders
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Mikey plays roblox regularly, one of his favourites is restraunt tycoon 2
↑ draken is often forced to play along, hes a GOD at breaking point and is pretty good at arsenal, just any horror game, and TOH
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In their spare time, kisaki and hanma spend a shit ton of cash on robux, They then flex their stuff and bully random kids (hanma likes bullying sonic kids, kisaki opts for danganronpa & genshin kids) sometimes ran will end up joining them. He has no specific groups he targets, hes just an ass to everyone. Hes also a GOD at bypassing the filter smartass
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Rindou, Mitsuya, Hakkai, and Hina all like 90-day & say yes to the dress
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Our favourite twin dragons (mitsuya and draken) are both pretty fluent in english. Mitsuya has more fluency and can speak it with a vey mild accent, kenny on the other hand has less fluency and a very heavy accent, when they’re pissed at mikey & baji toman for being loud or immature or something else along those lines, they will hold conversations in english clearly bringing up the others names while intensely glaring at them
Chifuyu and Hakkai are the the only ones who have a small grasp on their conversation.
Meet Pepper (Right) and Mint (left), a two headed Naga elemental! not born this way, they found a blessed necklace to be stronger as a whole, than individual, Pepper has cold flame breath and Mint has hot ice touch, when separate they are a Albino cornsnake and Cobra, Enjoy them!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE SPECIALIST BABY SNAKEY EVER, DEMO!! 16 YEARS YOUNG!! I LOVE YOU, MY SON! 💖🐍🐁🎉 I can't believe it's been about 16 years since I've had my baby (got him in September when he was about a month old). He's seen other family pets come and go, he's seen me come and go back and forth from college, he's seen me grow up, and I've raised him alongside myself. I love my baby. 🐍 Demo got a full tank cleaning, and then some extra special cuddles on the couch, digging in a blanket, and a very uncooperative photoshoot, lol. Hot mouse on the way! 🐁 Send Demo a birthday mouse on CashApp! ➡️ $CoriPGLN ⬅️ 🐍🐍🐍🐍 #snake #snakes #cornsnake #cornsnakes #snowcorn #albino #albinosnakes #snek #snakesofinstagram #scalebaby #reptile #reptiles #pet #pets #petstagram #colubrid #elapheguttata #pantherophisguttatus #cute #cutesnake #kawaii #linecamera #snakebirthday #birthday #16yearsold #sweet16 #petbirthday #bday #16 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChDw6HLpgqA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
What are some really colorful snake species/morphs that are ethical to keep as pets? I know there's quite a few iridescent species of snake, but what about snakes that are just super vibrant and colorful?
Oh, there are so many!
You can get a cornsnake in almost any color you want, with vibrant pinks and oranges and yellows! If you love colorful snakes, check out flourescents.
If you love iridescence, check out kingsnakes. They have smooth, glossy bellies that shine like rainbows in the right light. I especially love the iridescence on Mexican black kingsnakes.
Speaking of kingsnakes, I'm absolutely besotted with lavender albinos. Photographs never do them justice, but they're a lovely dark pink/light purple color with dark red eyes and they're beautiful.
Banana enchi ball pythons. They're stunning.
Speaking of enchi ball pythons, enchi clowns. Probably my personal favorite ball python morph!
If you love colorful and you're an experienced keeper looking for a display snake, Amazon tree boas are the way to go.
There are so many incredibly vibrant and beautiful snakes out there that make great pets!
Hi! Is the albino patternless everglades ratsnake the same thing as the bubblegum ratsnake? When I bought my little one I googled looking for adults and the first one i found was your Kevin, so I named mine Kevin too. You can see him in my pic whispering in my ear to eat the apple. Love your page and your snakes except I live in a state where i can't own cornsnakes and looking at your beauties makes me want one.
Hello to you and also to your Kevin!
Okay so my understanding on this is limited to what I was told by a guy who knew Gino Sassani, the dude who is often credited as having developed the bubblegum ratsnake. According to what I was told, albino patternless Everglades ratsnakes are the same as bubblegum rat snakes, and the name change came about because somebody wanted to obfuscate the fact that they were selling hybrids.
In truth, it was Kathy Love who made the first bubblegum ratsnakes and she did so by hybridizing a wild-caught Everglades ratsnake with the Stripe gene with an albino eastern black ratsnake, and then continuing to breed the offspring back to albino black ratsnakes. When the project was handed to Gino, he is thought to have added more Everglades ratsnake to the mix and popularized the line, and other breeders down the line have bred black ratsnake and/or Everglades ratsnakes back in so they're pretty variable from one line to the other.
I got two of my four snakes (Kevin and Taffeta) from Frank Patinella, having purchased a pair (Mouse and Peachpit) the year before from a seller at a Herpetological Society meeting as just albino blotchless Everglades ratsnakes, and it was Frank who tipped me off that they're almost assuredly all hybrids.
I think Kev and Taffy are higher black rat percentage and Mouse and PP are probably higher Everglades content since their breeder also had wild-type Everglades rats he was working with.
In my mind there's nothing really wrong with making closely-related hybrids within the same genus, as long as you're not releasing them into the wild or misrepresenting them, and you're being certain that people who are taking them understand fully what they're getting. I think with genus Pantherophis in particular there might not be as clearly delineated species groupings as we humans would prefer. I don't know that I would have originally purchased Mouse and Peachpit had I known they were hybrids, but ultimately I'm glad I did.
TL;DR: yeah I'm pretty sure albino patternless Everglades ratsnakes are the same thing as bubblegum ratsnakes.
I'm really sorry that corn snakes are illegal where you are, but we know that it's to protect the genetic integrity of your native population. Just think: you can go out and see corn snakes doing their thing in the wild! That's really really awesome!
I honestly think rat snakes are cooler than corns, though, and they're definitely an underappreciated and very rewarding snake to keep. You may occasionally think of your Kevin as a consolation prize for not being able to keep corns, but I think he's a gold medal through and through.