Could not resist coming back for this thread. Aprasia rostrata - The Atomic Worm lizard. http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/0A/0AB13196-A38C-4476-BC02-CC3B8CADE067/Presentation.Large/Hermite-Island-worm-lizard-male.jpg Picture pilfered from the http://www.arkive.org/hermite-island-worm-lizard/aprasia-rost...

@mania, Not sure what the black mark on the spine was, it was not dirt, might have been bruising. I did do a partial necropsy to see if there was any hemorrhaging but did not find any signs of it, so I do not think it was ridden over. The lung also looked fine, no fluid so it probably didn't drown. ...

On my way home today, as I was coming up to my street I saw something along the side of the street in the gutter, had to to actually go back to confirm my suspicions. I have found an Albino Boa Constrictor unfortunately it had just died maybe a two or three hours ago(no rigor mortis yet). Not sure o...

African Striped Weasel.

1.Any of the Drymarchon species (not gonna happen, protected species and all, but we can wish)
2.Elaphe carinata
3.Zamenis spp. especially persicus
4.Boiga dendrophila
5.Clelia clelia

Genus Sibynomorphus maybe.

Thanks for the replies guys, it's an unfortunate thing to happen but it does.
There is more bad news as the eggs she did lay all look fertile and white but are not developing, there is no vein growth when I candle them.

I have just checked on the snake now she has unfortunately and sadly died.

Melamine is pretty much what everybody uses, so no real problems there beside the need to seal it very well: Such as applying waterproof woodglue or silicone to the exposed edges before joining. And a further bead of silicon on internal corners. Any water or humidity will cause it to swell tremendou...

Well I am not sure what caused the paralysis, no further tests have been carried out. It may very well be a calcium deficiency. She is currently on Calcium gluconate 1mg dose twice daily since the the eggs were removed but has still not shown any improvement as of yet. Whatever the cause of the para...

So a rather unfortunate circumstance has happened to one of my snakes. One of my Black rat snake females began to lay her eggs on Monday the 24th, in the morning I saw she had laid 8 eggs with perhaps another 3 still to go. By the time I got home in the evening she had not laid any more, I was not t...

The diagram shows pin 2 is COM so you must connect you heater to pins 2 and 3.

If you connect pins 1 and 2 that's basically for cooling because your load will only turn on when you hit your set temps.

Before you do what I said on the previous post, On pins 1,2 and 3 do any of them say C, COM or Ground?

Change your load to work on 1 and 3 so that the load is normally on(closed circuit) but turns off when relay turns on(reaches temp).

I don't think this is right, it just seems too simple, but here is my guess anyway.

Galapagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus)