My hognose got out! And out the house. I thought she was gone forever. Found her in my garden sunbathing... 8 months later! Wait for it..... Over Christmas...... In Scotland!!! She is a machine lol
@@WickensWickedReptiles she's all good too, still healthy. Eating and shedding. She did look like a homeless snake when I found her again, all dusty and raggedy 😂
I just secured myself one of these babies. I'm so excited! (First snake ever! Constantly in places or situations with snake haters. Finally, at 31, getting my dream pet!) Your video was so informative! Trying to learn all I can. Subbed immediately! Thanks for all the tips!
Not to scare you because it's perfectly normal but when their first brumation year they may go into it and not eat durring it but by next season they should learn they dont need to and keep eating normally and coming out
My hognose snake has never bit me, that’s the main reason I bought him. I didn’t want a snake that would bite me every time I try to handle it. Love him!
@@MrPutts-ri8my Yeah I thought none of my hognose would ever bite me. I've been bitten by two females now. Tbf both times it was totally my fault... They were just hungry! Even though both of them have been fed plenty!
“You’re not going to find these guys climbing” then there’s my hognose who loves to climb. I bought him a 3D background and he loves it. He climbs and falls and does it again. I just bought him a tree decoration and he is starting to use it.
Lol I had a corn snake but he escaped and was killed my my cats in getting a hognose and setting way more safety precautions and I had a tree for my corn lol
I just brought home my first baby “cober” and i am in love with him. He is so tiny and has so much spice! I just brought him home yesterday and I was terrified he wouldn’t eat because he was so tiny, but he took the first pinkie right alway. I got him at an expo and i was worried that the seller wasn’t being truthful about his voracious appetite and eating FT. Poor little dude was a little dehydrated from travel and sitting in a dry display box all day. He dank water from a bottle cap in the car on the ride home. I almost died from cuteness.
Really appreciate your to-the-point guide. Really helped start me out with my new hoggie. Have had her for about 5 days now & she’s already taken a meal, pooped and comes out to bask and explore most of the day. Going to get a few more into her & start to handle. Awesome stuff man!
It's actually a perfect place for their fangs as they eat frog and toad in the wild. Frogs and toads puff up when you put them in your mouth so the placement of the fangs work awesome to pop their prey.
I have seen charts that imply rats aren’t inherently more fatty, it’s just that between a rat and a mouse that are the same size, the rat will be much younger and younger rats have higher percentages of fat than adults. I believe an adult rat and an adult mouse will have around the same % of fat, as will a pinky mouse and pinky rat. But if you have to choose between, say, an adult mouse and whatever rat is the same size, you should stick to the adult mouse. In addition, an adult mouse should have bones that are more developed than an equivalent sized rat and therefore should theoretically have a little bit more calcium.
This comment is a year old, but I think breeders are catching on here in Sweden too. I thought for sure I would have to look for somewhere else in Europe if I wanted anything other than a wild type hognose. But to my absolute delight I found a breeder in Stockholm who seems to breed lavenders, snows, condas/supercondas, arctics and more. I went from thinking I would have to fight to find even a wild type conda to being spoiled for choice! :D
hey man. love the videos. ive been doing a ton of research lately on hognoses and your vids have helped a lot with that. funny enough, this vid was uploaded the evening before im going to see some hognoses from a breeder so thank you so much for the informative video.
No fr I’ve been looking at scorpions, tarantulas, corn snakes & now hog noses hes great he gets straight to the point I like that usually people drag it out so bad
I just bought my first snake at a reptile expo! He's a beautiful baby superconda hognose. His name is Rigatoni Bologna, but we call him Tony for short :). Thanks for the great info!
Western hognose are some of the best pet snakes in my opinion, mainly due to relatively small size and easy temperament. I have found that he Terra Sahara substrate from The Bio Dude is a great substrate for them. But of course, they thrive in aspen too. Update: Also Dig-It from Josh's Frogs, another good soil substrate. I add a little playsand in both. In the wild, the soil they live in - their burrows - are often slightly damp, or at least higher humidity than the surface for sure. They will search for food in full daylight too much like gartersnakes.
your temperatures seem pretty high. Where did you find this info? or was just in your experience. I live in California and keep my hot spot at around 90.
@@WickensWickedReptiles same. Shes got such a lovely temperament. Breeder says shes never once missed a feed and has never bitten him...she is only a bubba but a healthy happy feeding bubba is always a good sign in my books
I mostly watch these videos just for the cute hognose footage nowadays. I've no chance of getting a snake anytime soon. I want my first to be either a hognose or a Mexican black kingsnake. I know some people in the community would not call them ideal beginner snakes, whereas others do disagree and they show up on some lists, but not others. They're adorable snakes though. I love how chonky the females get. Even if they get grompy, they're something about their dumb little shovel-faces that makes it impossible to be scared of them. I also love your little shoulder gecko. I honestly used to find leopard gecko's kinda boring and don't see the appeal of them, but they've definitely grown on me. They can be relatively active and handleable, come in really cool colours and morphs and the entire species share about 5 brain cells. I think I just really like dumb reptiles; it's the most endearing thing to me for some reason.
Thanks for all the info! I find you’re videos really helpful and comprehensive 😊 it’s nice to see how you care for your animals too and don’t just treat them like objects as some do.
Thanks for the tip I really appreciate it I do have my very first hognose snake a regular Western and his name is Franklin I just got them yesterday and getting used to me took to me very well but I really do appreciate your tips
ive wanted a hognose for 5 years ive had ball pythons corn snakes garter snakes but never a hognose after months of research and telling my dad everyday he surprised me with a baby anaconda hognose
Thats amazing! I've had 2 corns before ( they both escaped and died ) but im getting a hognose and making sure its always closed well and has clamps on every corner my corns were both albinos the first one escaped and died, we got more stuff to keep the snake safe and the 2ns one died I may sound like a bad snake care taker but the clamps were always on and when they escaped I was at my moms place the snake is at my dad's im getting a hognose and getting a ton of clamps
I love hognoses so much, I think theyre a dream snake for me but unfortunately in my city the by-law bans all snakes with any kind of venom, even rear-fanged venomous! 😢
I got a male hognose snake quite recently and he's a sweetheart. Only minus I've experienced so far is that since it's not a very big snake especially if it's male like mine, they can get into tight spaces where they're very hard to reach if you let them explore on their own, so definitely keep that in mind if you do so.
It's so odd to me hearing adult sizes for hognose. As of now the only snakes that we keep our ball pythons oh, and our two babies are in the middle of adult hognose range. The size of mine vs many other snakes escapes me sometimes.
Where in the world do I find a hognose for $75!? I went to repticon and there wasn't any. Just full of dozens of ball python booths. I had to search so hard just to find only 2 booths for corn snakes and one booth of different types of rat snakes. 😫 Everywhere online is like $175 and up. I've been watching craiglist adds for months just hoping to find one at a decent deal.
@WickensWickedReptiles it's fine though... I don't need a cute snake... when I can walk out my front door and wonder which snake of many will kill me first 🤣
Imma end up getting a permit for fifty bucks so I can get one eventually. Hognoses are my favorite because of how derpy they look and act lol. So cute. Heckin Missouri laws.
Yes!! Planning on getting an albino hoggie morph at the Tucson Reptile show in a few weeks! Can't wait!! They're stinkin rad! ❤️🐍❤️ Your female is beautiful
I bought aspen for my tank setup for my western hognose that I’m getting in April and now I’m wondering if I should get the beyond peat since it comes with the coconut fibers already
Wickens Wicked Reptiles okay I heard mixed responses on using aspen from a lot of different sources so instead of using it all I think I’ll get the substrate with coconut pieces inside and just mist it every once in awhile....thank you for commenting I’ve been watching your channel for awhile (especially the ones portraying western hognoses) and I have decided to purchase one in April, and I already made sure they are legal in Florida!
@@WickensWickedReptiles I definitely am! I have a spare 20 gal and space to put it since I upgraded my corn snake and BRB enclosures. That tank is calling out for an adorable little hognose!
I was stuck between a corn snake or a hognose and I called my local pet shop and the corn snake I wanted was the same price as a hognose I saw online that I wanted. There were also some $700 hognoses but if you just want a good pet and you don't care about morphs as much you can find them as low as $130 in the us
herno1 lol I know your not asking me but it all depends usually when you own a ball python it’s more of a bigger snake than a hognose but they’re easier and they don’t have any problems with attitude or feeding but if you were to get a hognose snake you might have some difficulties with feeding and they’re a little bit more grumpy so it all depends on what your preferences is.
I’d say either work. Just depends on preference. I had a ball python, now I have two. There’s so many beginner snakes though, I hope you figured it out by now bahaha
I purchased my small male anaconda morph Western hognose snake for $250 as a baby 7+ years ago (pet only not breeder). He has lived all of his life in a ten gallon tank. Although now I am going to upgrade to a twenty gallon. He has never had any issues and been kept on aspen bedding, because he adores making tunnels. I did have feeding problems with him. He only ate live baby mice until finally deciding to eat f/t this year. He also goes off food for a while in the Winter (doesn't lose weight and has been doing it all his life, so I am not concerned). I have kept a lot of different snakes (for 50+ years) and my Aspen is my favorite. So much personally in such a small package! Aspen is very tame and doesn't even hiss at me anymore, although as a baby he was a hissy little noodle. I cannot say enough good things about this species of snake. Not sure Western hognose snakes are my favorite species, but Aspen is hands down my favorite individual snake. Oh and he has never bitten me or even struck at me, such a sweetheart.
I have tons of questions. How cold should the cool side be? Does it matter which side I put the water bowl in ? Are humidifiers any good? How hot should the basking rock be ?
I cant wait to be able to get my own Pissy! Once Covid is lifted in Montreal I can get my Hognose and my Typhocaelena Seladonia sling. Two new babies I have always wanted, other than horses 😅 I need to stop collecting animals. Joking. Collect as many as you are able to care for properly.
@@WickensWickedReptiles Just making me crazy as I already paid the deposit from the owner of the hognose and paid in full to the T breeder. So hoping Covid is lifted soon! Cannot wait to bring my new babies home. Do you post any posts on facebook of your hognoses?
Adam… 300g + is very veryyyyy big for a female… and some breeders I know do find that females over 300-500grams have a lower fertility than the smaller females 😊
This may be a stupid question but because my kids want a hognose snake I want to learn as much as possible. Do you get a UVB light and a heat lamp? Separate question but I know some people who feed them in their enclosure but I've also been told not to do that because they associate opening the terrarium with being fed. Which is better or is it a preference?
Please post a picture or video of your had with a ruler (preferable metric AND US customary, its not something i see in Reptile Videos, and angles and zoom can really create a false sense of size, even when you tell us length and weight in numbers, give us a reference!
Ik this vid is from years ago but would you suggest feeding them with tongs and handling with hands to train feeding responses like seen with some other reptiles or nah?
Thanks to your videos, I finally got me a leopard gecko. Now my wife want to get a snake and is torn between corn snake or hognose. I'll definitely be sharing this to my wife to help her decision
Another quick note, If anyone here gets ahold of a Madagascar species, be sure to not put it in a strict diet of small rodents. That piticular breed can develop liver diseases and are known to die young unless they are given a broader diet then the other species.
