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Bull Snakes and Room Dynamics with Travis Johnson

Episode 7

mercredi 25 mars 2020 • Duration 02:34:32

Meat & Potatoes:

Tell us about your connection to Bull Snakes
The care for Bull snakes (40 min +)
All other fascinating info about bulls etc
How do you feel they are best kept?
- Average keeper vs. breeder (39:40 min)
- Pet style or breeder efficient style
What climate do they prefer? (40:45)
How do you achieve that in consideration with the various other species you keep?
- Ambient
- 85 in peak summer (43:00)
- 80 regularly
Genetics & Locality (52:00)
- Double hets (54:00)
- Simple recessive exclusively (57:00) - Inbreeding
- Wild type multi hets (58:00)
- Locality phenotypes - color & size (59:00)
Pros
- Great pets
- Setup nice in naturalistic enclosures
- Humidity is not normally an issue
- Don’t need a lot of heat
- They are good eaters
- Active during the morning and early evening (crepuscular)
- Can be very handleable with patience
- Awesome personalities
Cons
- Generally can be high strung/nervous
- Too much heat can make that nervousness worse
- They don’t like a lot of activity or movement (visual stimuli)
- Poop! They can be messy
Etc.
- Wild type win (55:40)
- Coachwhips (1:12:00)
- Snake size and maximum sizes versus adult sizes
- Freedom breeder tubs
Breeding (1:30:00)
- Stop feeding in November and then start brumation on Black Friday
- Pull them out of brumation in 12 weeks - wait 5 days for 1st feeding
- Keep feeding until the first shed out of brumation (a couple of weeks) - Pre-ovulation shed and then pair them up
- 2nd shed after is the pre-lay shed
- 10-14 days they lay eggs - they almost never use a nest box
  PRO TIP! Pull the water bowl before the 10th day
- Pull eggs and place into egg boxes - 6qt tote with 2 air holes - perlite (drier than you would expect) - 80°
- Hatch date is typically 56-60 days (depends on temp)
  - Too hot can cause deformities
What's coming down the pipe for your bulls and the rest of your projects?
- Prove out poss hets
- Stillwater Hypo Patternless het Miami Axanthic poss het albino x Trumbower Hibino (Hypo Albino) het Patternless and Bullum Axanthic !!!
- Whitesided, albino, patternless, hypos, axanthics
What do you see for the future of bull snakes and do you think more people should be keeping them?
- The future is bright for bullsnakes! More morphs...more localities
- Plan ahead and contact bullsnakes breeders now! Don’t wait!
- Their popularity is on the rise!

Closing comments/wrapping up/ throwing out contact info and the season's production for people to watch out for

Carpet Fest 2020 - Facebook Group Link Here

Final remarks. plugging for the next episode. etc.

Find Travis Here:
Living Legless Reptile Website
LLR on Facebook

LLR on Instagram

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Scott Borden’s Blog Post About Racks & Cages

Episode 6 - The Tired Debate: Racks vs. Cages

Episode 6

mercredi 11 mars 2020 • Duration 01:53:29

Two opposing sides have emerged in this debate; pro racks and anti racks. However, could there be a middle ground? Andy and Riley brainstorm, discuss their experiences, visit some of the pervasive hypotheses, and conjecture about the future of reptile keeping techniques as a result of this ongoing debate.

Intro:

Catching up
Forrest Fanning

Body:

GH calling out FB on arboreal rack
- Starting the question
Looking at natural history of normal rack system animals
UVB blood testing
The history of rack systems
- When they were first implemented
- How they changed the hobby/industry
Pros
- Efficiency
- Sterilization
- Observation
- Organization
Cons
- Visibility
- Esthetics
- Argument
- Negative
Various species benefits and detriments
- Beardies
Applications
- How they’ve made positive differences
- How people are utilizing and refining them today
- Current trends towards the future
What do each of us use
- What types
- For what species
- Experiences
  - Good and bad
- Future plans and thoughts

Outro:

Wrapping up mentioning the ongoing lists of suggestions and hopefully not the audio issues
How the Australia trip may or may not impact my responses etc and please be flexible and understandable
Next!

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Intro Music: Old Blue by Chris Haugen

Outro Music: Cats Searching for the Truth by Nat Keefe and Hot Buttered Rum

@30:10 rack quote from Andy

@34:20 some keepers dedicating time to animals in the sun….

@37:00 UVB lighting talk

@46:00 being critical of others

@49:00 debate vs discussion

@52:00 great example of a tub helping a pituophis

@58:00 asking why

Episode 5: Low vs. High Maintenance Reptiles

Episode 5

mercredi 26 février 2020 • Duration 01:28:03

Maybe you are happy with low maintenance animals but have a large quantity of them. Suddenly you have a high maintenance collection!

Low Maintenance vs High Maintenance and what that means

Amount of work
- Daily vs. every few days
- Knowing your limits
Cleaning, watering, lighting, feeding, etc
Cage space and species considerations for future growth
Environmental challenges/ease
- Easy for anyone to accomplish vs. specific requirements i.e. “advanced”
- Technology & sensors

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Intro Music “Dirty Hands” by Jeremy Korpas

Outro Music “The Big Guns” by Silent Partner

Episode 4: Riley Flies Solo

Episode 4

mercredi 12 février 2020 • Duration 57:55

Florida Trip

Morelia Breeding Season

Timeline
Clues to watch for
Ovulatory swelling vs ovulation
Interest between animals
Missexed males and combat
Spring breeders vs winter breeders

Coming down the line:

Guests soon!

Continued topics

Tools of the room

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Episode 3: Anaheim Recap and Importance of Reptile Shows

Episode 3

mercredi 29 janvier 2020 • Duration 01:26:28

It has been a couple of weeks since we last recorded. We caught up a little on what has been happening in our lives. This show is all about the Anaheim Reptile Super Show that happened back at the beginning of January and its impact on the west coast reptile shows. We also talk about all the great things reptile shows do for our hobby and what we can do as buyers and vendors to improve on the impact they have.

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