Reptiles, arachnids, and other creepy critters thread - Because I know I'm not the only Kiwi into that shit

Android raptor said:
Yeah turtles are smart, if nothing else something that can store treats they have to work for that doesn't require any manipulation from front limbs. That's one of the reasons reptiles have done poorly on a lot of old school animal intelligence tests, because they required front limb dexterity that most reptiles don't have (and were conducted in cold air conditioned labs)
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I do notice that sometimes they spit out their food and shove it with their claws. And my male particularly doesn't like big pieces of food.
 
Android raptor said:
Yeah turtles are smart, if nothing else something that can store treats they have to work for that doesn't require any manipulation from front limbs. That's one of the reasons reptiles have done poorly on a lot of old school animal intelligence tests, because they required front limb dexterity that most reptiles don't have (and were conducted in cold air conditioned labs)
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get an old junker phone and set it up in front of the glass so he can have a big screen tv
pictures of turtles watching TMNT on a phone would probably be dank af
 
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Cheerlead-in-Chief said:
I do notice that sometimes they spit out their food and shove it with their claws. And my male particularly doesn't like big pieces of food.
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Hmm, I know some turts the females have naturally bigger and stronger jaws for eating shellfish. Idk if that's true for red ears tho
 
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Android raptor said:
Hmm, I know some turts the females have naturally bigger and stronger jaws for eating shellfish. Idk if that's true for red ears tho
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It's true for Red Eared Sliders. My female is gigantic compared to him and she eats a lot....the only thing she's not fond of are peppers, and my mom theorizes she's more attracted to yellow while he's attracted to red
 
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I just finished up making fancy new apartments for my garter snakes. They were in plastic tubs with paper towels for a little bit, but the humidity made it necessary to clean them very regularly. We upgraded them to glass tanks with deep substrate and even more branches to climb. We also put a few minnows in their big water dish to see if they’ll hunt those. Here’s hoping they like it.

Funnily enough, shortly after that I went by my chicken coop. I found a THICC garter snake out there. On a whim we brought it inside and are making a temporary tub for it. It’s the same coloration as the ones we have (mom was wild caught while gravid, babies were technically born in captivity). We let a few go that wouldn’t eat, so we joked about it being one of those. Probably isn’t though.
 
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Coffee Druid said:
I just finished up making fancy new apartments for my garter snakes. They were in plastic tubs with paper towels for a little bit, but the humidity made it necessary to clean them very regularly. We upgraded them to glass tanks with deep substrate and even more branches to climb. We also put a few minnows in their big water dish to see if they’ll hunt those. Here’s hoping they like it.

Funnily enough, shortly after that I went by my chicken coop. I found a THICC garter snake out there. On a whim we brought it inside and are making a temporary tub for it. It’s the same coloration as the ones we have (mom was wild caught while gravid, babies were technically born in captivity). We let a few go that wouldn’t eat, so we joked about it being one of those. Probably isn’t though.
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Is it one of those black striped garter snakes?
In middle school one science teacher had a couple. One afternoon, I saw them mate and then they had eggs approximately weeks later.
In the other middle school that I attended my science teacher always fed his snake a frozen rat after class, but we were able to see it eat one afternoon.
 
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My tortoise managed to escape again for a few days last week, this being like the 4th time. Every time he escapes he goes uphill and ends up in one specific neighbours garden (he has a very secure fence hillside). I wonder why that is?
 
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A Welsh Cake said:
My tortoise managed to escape again for a few days last week, this being like the 4th time. Every time he escapes he goes uphill and ends up in one specific neighbours garden (he has a very secure fence hillside). I wonder why that is?
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I think they like to go certain directions, when my friends leopard tortoise escapes she usually goes in the same direction

Saw this tree screamer earlier
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Not sure if she’d count as a pet for this thread, but meet my pet snail. She’s an albino African Giant land snail, purchased for me as a Christmas gift by Mr Fraggle. I love her to bits and she brings me immense joy.
 

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Tarnished Fraggle said:
Not sure if she’d count as a pet for this thread, but meet my pet snail. She’s an albino African Giant land snail, purchased for me as a Christmas gift by Mr Fraggle. I love her to bits and she brings me immense joy.
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Aww I love her! They're illegal where I live and I get why (could be invasive), but ngl I'm a little jelly of people who live where they're legal. They're super cute.
 
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I keep on intending to capture some garden snails to make a colony to feed my Blue Tongue Skink, maybe I should do that while I have several days at home with a communicable (non-covid) disease.
 
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