#saharan sand boas

[kedreeva]

A friend of mine managed to breed her Saharan sand boas, something which... is extremely rare in the USA, because it's difficult to do and not a lot of people know how in the first place. Almost all Saharans are wild caught, which is not ideal. But! She managed it, on what info she could find, and the eggs have been growing and were SUPPOSED to hatch at LEAST 5 days ago, but the clutch is quite large (9 eggs!) so we think they came out earlier than typical.

Of course, she expected them to be well hatched already, and had made plans to be out of town with her family today and tomorrow, so this morning was the day they decided to Start Hatching. So, I'm over here babyssssssitting these extremely precious little babies.

#snakes #my pets #friends pets #saharan sand boas #I will share photos soon #I was instructed to take a bunch of photos for her #since this isn't well documented #snabysitting

[mama-forest-witch]

New baby that I picked up today at a reptile show. A Saharan Sand Boa. I named her Sock. 🧦

#personal #nature #green witch #witchblr #zen #personal ramblings #spirituality #witchcraft #snake #pet snake #sand boa #Saharan sand boa #familiar

[knuxtiger4]

Something I have been keeping busy with is updating my animal habitats to what I feel is natural. I’m a huge fan of bioactive tanks and have one running a few years when I had my salamanders and when I got Puba!

Blep’s tank has been on the back burner for so long cause of how to tackle a Sand Boa tank when these guys burrow and dig. After seeing some tanks I took that plunge! His tank has tons of air planets and succulents as our live plants and several animal skulls in the tank that I sorta of cleaned and wanted to use them for his tank. They were pretty damaged already so nothing I could repurpose for crafts and felt it would give a cool look!

Also… I’ll never see him again!

#Knux’s pets #Blep #snake #snek #sand boa #Saharan sand boa #bioactive #vulture culture #kinda????

[stygianexotics]

Have you ever seen a nicer pair of Saharan sand boas?

#reptiles #snake #sand boa #boa constrictor

[0ut0fmych3st]

I’ve had this exact conversation with at least two people:

Them: is that a sand boa?

Me: yeah he’s a saharan sand boa

Them: oh a Kenyan sand boa

Me: they look similar but he’s actually a saharan sand boa

Them: saharan sand boa?

Like dude yes that’s what I just told you 😭 are they fuckin autocorrecting to Kenyan in their brains when I say it? I don’t get it. Do they also assume someone means they have a labrador retriever when they say they have a golden retriever? I understand Kenyan sand boas are more common and saharan sand boas are quite new and unknown to reptile keeping but come on man I know your ears work.

[gopheryourpet]

2021 Saharan Sand Boa Male. Saul is eating frozen thawed rodents, has a relaxed disposition and weighs 28 grams. As always these are photos of the actual snake available. Email us at [email protected] or call 682-414-0013. Payment plans, Credit/Debit Cards, Cash App, PayPal Venmo, Zelle, and shipping are available. Kingwood, Texas. $150.00. All sales are final.

GYP-4314

[slowasyoucango]

#snake #snakes #reptiblr #reptiles #boa #boa constrictor #sand boa #saharan sand boa #gongylophis muelleri #spots

[bone-vulture-lu]

My children just shed and are looking pretty so I figured I’d post an update haha.

Peepo’s getting big!! He’s now graduated to two pinkies per meal. Nothin much to report other than he’s been a Good Boy.

Poppy, on the other hand, has been having some issues that we’re working on. One is that she won’t eat f/t. Another is that she got these parasitic(??) bumps that I’ve been trying to treat her for the last few months, and when she shed today it wasn’t super great so as I was soaking her and removing the stuck shed, all the bumps came off like scabs? So hopefully that’s good?? Anyway she’s a Difficult Child but dang if I don’t love that stupid face of hers.

Also if you guys wanna stay caught up on their snakey shenanigans, you can follow them @ peeposterous on Instagram!

#my stuff #snakes #Poppy #Peepo #snakes of tumblr #corn snake #saharan sand boa

[omg-snakes]

Saharan sand boa care sheet? (:

I'll be super honest, I don't know enough about sand boas to be able to recommend a good care sheet. I'm sorry.

They're neat little snakes but I'm a colubrid person.

Maybe somebody could recommend a few in the comments that are especially good?

#snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #sand boa #sand boas #text post #answers to questions #care sheet

[wildandmoody]

hmm....kenyan & saharan sand boas r starting to appeal to me greatly

a rosy boa for sure is going to be my first snake, and i always thought i wanted an mbk to be my second because they’re so damn solid black and pretty, but,,,,

sand boas are half the size (i love small snakes), and i’m finding that even some of the morphs for this snake are cheaper than a regular mbk. plus they’re super cute and r shaped like the kind of snake you’d roll up with playdoh (i also love dumb-looking snakes). and i havent ever heard anything about them being strike-y like mbks can be. hm

#thinking aloud but this is like LONG term long term thinking lol #me.exe #snek

[kedreeva]

Quick video of the Saharan sand boa eggs, about 24 hours post-pip. There's 5 snoots sticking out, so far, from 9 eggs, but no one has actually exited yet. They're moving around though!

#saharan sand boas #snakes #snabysitting

[geesimms]

Bark chips. I find this to be the most aesthetically pleasing, but also the most unhygienic substrate. When damp, bark chips provide favourable conditions for small parasites. I noticed an increase in snake mites when I was using this substrate. Also, the colour of bark chips makes it difficult to spot feces, which I therefore often inadvertently left in the boxes for a long time. I keep wanting to go back to this kind of substrate for its appearance, but it just isn't worth the hassle.

Savannah chips. These beechwood chips are not a great substrate for sand boas. After a short time they become compacted, making a harder substrate layer that is not as easy for the snakes to burrow under. If this substrate becomes wet or soiled, fungal growth appears more rapidly than with any other substrate I have used. It is also heavier than some other substrates, and quite expensive.

Sand. When people think of sand boas, they automatically assume that the best substrate material for these snakes would be sand. But in fact, of all the different species and varieties of sand boas, there are probably only two that are truly sand dwellers, the Arabian and the Saharan, and even these are quite happy on lighter substrates such as aspen. Sand is extremely heavy, and a real drag to work with. Some kinds are very dusty. If it gets wet, sand takes a surprising amount of time to dry, and can keep the level of cage humidity high for several days. I have also had bad experiences feeding snakes on this substrate. A sand boa can grab a mouthful of indigestible sand along with a prey item, swallow it all together, and end up with a gut impaction. On the other hand, sand is easy to spot clean with a sieve or scoop. Also, I think sand is the most appealing to the eye, and I use it in all of my display tanks.

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[stygianexotics]

Saharan sand boa

#snake #reptiles #sand boa

[0ut0fmych3st]

I redid Patroclus’s vivarium~

It’s certainly not my most impressive or naturalistic enclosure but I quite like how it turned out. His enclosure needs to be more functional than aesthetically pleasing, which is something I find easier to balance out with lizards rather than snakes.

He loves to dig because he’s a saharan sand boa and he’s very confident and outgoing so aside from his hides, I didn’t worry about giving him a lot of coverage since he prefers to hide by burying himself anyway. He typically digs underneath his hides rather than using them as one might expect, but they’re always a good idea anyway. I did make him a tunnel out of a toilet paper tube and duct tape that leads under his water bowl. I’m not sure if he’ll use it, but he likes being under there so it’s worth a try.

The plants (pothos and one really sad spider plant I don’t have much faith in) are more for decoration than anything, but he does like to use the leaves as pillows when he’s basking. I rearranged his driftwood so that it’ll be sturdier and not move when he climbs it, and so that he can climb easier in different areas.

I would’ve loved to add a bunch of leaf litter because it actually makes a huge difference in a vivarium’s appearance in my opinion, but I tried that before and he just mixed all the leaves into the substrate when he dug, so it’s not worth it lol

[gopheryourpet]

2020 Saharan Sand Boa female. Sara is eating frozen thawed rodents, has a relaxed disposition and weighs 126 grams. As always these are photos of the actual snake available. Email us at [email protected] or call 682-414-0013. Payment plans, Credit/Debit Cards, Cash App, PayPal Venmo, Zelle, and shipping are available. Kingwood, Texas. $150.00. All sales are final.

GYP-4234

[kedreeva]

wow did some googling on the saharan sand boas and not even the hobby seems to have a great grasp on these guys. seeing a ton of different species mixed up with each other, majorly differing opinions on expected lifespan, and debates on whether they're oviparous or viviparous! (kenyan sand boas, which seem to get mixed up with saharans a lot, are viviparous). Mad kudos to your friend for being able to wade through all this nonsense and successfully get eggies! my best wishes to the kiddos

Yeah that's kind of the thing, lots of people can't even tell the species apart (IT IS SO EASY THo??? I literally know nothing and it took my friend 15 seconds to teach me enough I made a flyer explaining how to tell), so how the hell do you collect info when people don't even know what they have, much less what to do with it? And then there's a few people.... like I think she said 4 people, in the entire US that have (to her knowledge) produced captive bred babies. And they won't share the info on how, they won't help others do it. idk why (I know why, it's gatekeeping). But I know she's gonna figure it out and then help anyone that wants to do it, too. She loves these snakes.

Look how easy! Now you know, too.

#sand boas #saharan sand boas #snabysitting #asks #snakes