#orchid motley corn snake

Made a little trip to get some hides for his quarantine enclosure (he had hides before, but cardboard boxes, you know?) and so he was handled a bit while I cleaned out the cage and made it all pretty. As a reward he tried to bite me, like, six times, and you’re coming perilously close to being named Mister Bitey, sir

I saw this animal posted for sale locally. Sibling to my orchid motley (Aerides), I didn’t want him to vanish into the ether of shuffling homes, so I took him in. He’s skinny and pretty snippy (he MUSKED me - I don’t know how long it’s been since an animal freakin’ musked me, generally they either bite the shit out of me or just chill), but he’s safely in quarantine now. I’ve named him Austri.