Meet the newest member of our family, Slizzy - Page 2

Dagney · 09-28-2005, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

Question: for those bloggers in the audience, how to you keep the crap out?

You set your blogger commenting tool to only those users who are registered with blogger.

BigV · 09-28-2005, 07:42 PM

THANK YOU!!

Edit:

Grrrrrr.... thanks for the really good tip. Unfortunately, the crap spam I did get and didn't like got through with that setting already in place. The only tighter notch on the belt is "Members of this blog". I don't think I want to go there just yet. I don't need another population of users to keep track of. I guess I'll just manually delete the crap out of there. Are there any other tips in this vein? Do I have to manually groom each post for bs comments?

BigV · 09-28-2005, 07:46 PM

mrnoodle:

Is that your snake? She's beautiful.

wolf · 09-29-2005, 12:25 AM

Was "Pinky" an underdone mouse, or did you happen to have some spare gerbil babies in the other room?

lheene · 09-29-2005, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

Having won the wrestling match with Picassa, Hello, and Blogspot, I now have the pleasure of introducing our newest family member:

I wanted to call him Upsilon but I though I'd get tired of having to explain why...

Slizzy's a darling! I also checked out your blog...mmm...appetizing, yes? heh-heh. By the way, is Pinky a mouse?

BigV · 09-29-2005, 10:13 AM

wolf, lheene, the pinkie was a baby mouse. They're standard fare in the frozen section of the pet food aisle. Each one is $1.29, but considerably less in bulk, I understand. We heat some water, then with the pinkie in the plastic bag from the store, we immerse it into the water to thaw then warm the mouse. This is known as f/t feeding, frozen/thawed feeding. Eventually, he'll graduate to f/t hoppers, baby furry mice, then to f/t adults.

When I was young, we fed live rodents to our snakes. That is not considered a good idea any more. There is some risk to the reptile of being bitten, and with the kind of training from a hatchling to take f/t food, that risk is now zero. Of course it is much easier to just order up a bag of 25 or 50 mice than it is to keep a colony of feed animals in the house.

Clodfobble · 09-29-2005, 10:11 PM

I started feeding my ball python only thawed dead rats after one bit him on the nose... but then after about a year of it, he just stopped eating them. He wouldn't eat again until I put a live one in there. I still try to get him smaller ones than he can necessarily handle to give him an advantage.

Mage · 10-17-2005, 08:37 PM

I like snakes....

09-28-2005, 07:42 PM	#17
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	THANK YOU!! Edit: Grrrrrr.... thanks for the really good tip. Unfortunately, the crap spam I did get and didn't like got through with that setting already in place. The only tighter notch on the belt is "Members of this blog". I don't think I want to go there just yet. I don't need another population of users to keep track of. I guess I'll just manually delete the crap out of there. Are there any other tips in this vein? Do I have to manually groom each post for bs comments? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not. Last edited by BigV; 09-28-2005 at 07:46 PM.

09-28-2005, 07:46 PM	#18
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	mrnoodle: Is that your snake? She's beautiful. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

09-29-2005, 12:25 AM	#19
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Was "Pinky" an underdone mouse, or did you happen to have some spare gerbil babies in the other room? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-29-2005, 10:13 AM	#21
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	wolf, lheene, the pinkie was a baby mouse. They're standard fare in the frozen section of the pet food aisle. Each one is $1.29, but considerably less in bulk, I understand. We heat some water, then with the pinkie in the plastic bag from the store, we immerse it into the water to thaw then warm the mouse. This is known as f/t feeding, frozen/thawed feeding. Eventually, he'll graduate to f/t hoppers, baby furry mice, then to f/t adults. When I was young, we fed live rodents to our snakes. That is not considered a good idea any more. There is some risk to the reptile of being bitten, and with the kind of training from a hatchling to take f/t food, that risk is now zero. Of course it is much easier to just order up a bag of 25 or 50 mice than it is to keep a colony of feed animals in the house. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

10-17-2005, 08:37 PM	#23
Mage Bored Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 24	I like snakes.... __________________ An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will

09-29-2005, 10:11 PM	#22
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I started feeding my ball python only thawed dead rats after one bit him on the nose... but then after about a year of it, he just stopped eating them. He wouldn't eat again until I put a live one in there. I still try to get him smaller ones than he can necessarily handle to give him an advantage.

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