3 Newest Additions!


Killing Day for Food...


5 day old chicks, minimum size nowadays
Enough for only a couple of feedings nowadays
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Fiji Boas..................... or Chameleons?

Fiji Boas are famous for changing colour, but it's hard to catch them at it.

Today I went to clean out their tank and found Constantine under the newspaper at her palest pink, and Magenta under a piece of bamboo in his most brooding dark... and yet some days they are identical.



All the babies out for cleaning...


Here is a tangle for you! All seven of our adult Fiji boas are in the holding tub while we clean out their tank. These snakes live together in large display tank, and seem to be quite companionable (for snakes....).

Naboo and Hecate

Our two newest, Naboo and Hecate. 
Can anyone name the name references...?

Corrigan!






The smallest of the batch of babies born on 31 May is, of course, the one we will keep. Born at 7gms, now a hefty 12 gms, she is pounding gecko tails once a week (offered from chopsticks).

And now she has shed her skin for the first time. Here are photos of her pre-shed and feeding, and 48 hours later in her new technicolour skin, glowing and fabulous.

The name Corrigan comes from Celtic folk-lore:
Corrigan, according to the folklore of Brittany is a female færy "Little Queen". She is said to have been one of the ancient druidesses, and therefore malicious towards Christian priests. Corrigan is fond of pretty human children, and is usually blamed for all changeling substitutions.