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BABY REPTILES

Here's a small plastic container filled with baby snakes. Aren't they cute? They're great. Although I don't recommend beginning herp enthusiasts worrying about successfully breeding snakes, it's tremendously exciting to have snakes lay eggs, then see them hatch out little, perfectly-formed babies!

Most snakes you'd buy in a pet store are young or babies. That's a good way to get them, as with excellent care they can live with you their entire life span---up to a dozen years.

Here's one of the babies, a beautiful brown-patterned corn snake. You can see that he has a lump in his stomach. He was recently fed a small mouse (pre-killed, frozen, thawed out, and warmed up) which he eagerly grabbed, "killed" by constricting it, then swallowed.

Corn snakes come in many beautiful, different color patterns, stay small (only growing to a couple feet long), are tame and easy to take care of.

Here's a beautiful, young Western Hog-nosed Snake. His nose is turned up at the end, the better to dig down under leaves and soft dirt with. I don't recommend this snake for beginning enthusiasts as he is rear-fanged and has a mild toxin that's specific for amphibians like salamanders and small frogs (though he's very tame). Unlike other hog-nosed snakes, the Western can be trained to eat mice, so is fairly easy to take care of.

Here's a another small snake, a Brown Snake. Unlike the snakes above, he is a full-grown adult!! Yes, it's true! They live on the Eastern Coast of the U.S. A friend found this animal in the back yard and brought it to me, afraid that terrible animals were living there and might bite his children! This guy's tiny mouth could not hurt anyone, he's nonpoisonous, and he eats worms!! Yes, that's right! To feed him I go and dig up small earthworms in my back yard!

Yes, this is not a snake. But it's still a baby reptile---a young Leopard Tortoise! He's very tame, has a beautiful pattern, and can grow up to be about a foot across.

He eats "salads" composed of green-leaf lettuce, canned potatoes/corn/beans, pelleted semi-moist dog food, and sprinkled with phosphate-free calcium and vitamin drops.

He needs warm sand to live on, a shallow water source, and a hiding cave.

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