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🤍 Not your ordinary reptile gal
🦋 Fear ends where knowledge starts
🐍 Chondros & Carpet Pythons
🇦🇺 Central Queensland | 🪨 ⛏️ | 🧿 | 💍

30/10/2026

Love this big beautiful Daintree, Nova 🤍

Fear ends where knowledge starts 🦋

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27/10/2026

This year I’m looking for 30 Aussie reptile creators, keepers & businesses who want to come together for 6 MASSIVE days of Christmas giveaways! 🎁

There will be 5 collaboration spots per day, with each giveaway running for just 24 HOURS 👀

If you’re a reptile creator, breeder, keeper, artist, product business or reptile related page, are located in Australia and you’d love to be part of it…

🎄 DM me “CHRISTMAS” and I’ll send you all the details! 🎄

Feel free to tag a reptile business or creator below that you think NEEDS to be part of this! 👀

🇦🇺 Australian participants only.

Let’s make Christmas in the Aussie reptile community BIGGER than ever this year 🎅🏼🐍🎁

26/10/2026

You don’t have to love snakes. You don’t even have to like them. But you should learn to respect them 🤍

Somewhere along the way, fear became an excuse for cruelty, and misinformation became something people accepted as fact!

I’m not here to convince everyone to become a reptile keeper. I’m here to challenge the way we think about animals we don’t understand. A snake doesn’t deserve to die simply because someone is frightened of it.

Education doesn’t mean you have to lose your fear overnight. It means learning that fear and respect can coexist.

If my content changes even ONE person’s perspective, encourages ONE person to ask questions instead of making assumptions, or saves ONE snake’s life, then I’m doing exactly what I set out to do 💚

Fear ends where knowledge starts 🦋

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24/10/2026

Fun fact: Snakes will sometimes p**p or p*e when being handled due to nerves, movement or digestive stimulation. It’s a completely normal response, especially in younger snakes! 🐍

Less fun fact: Sometimes YOU become the designated toilet 💀💩

Nothing quite humbles you like admiring your beautiful snake one minute and being absolutely SHAT ON the next 😂 Reptile keeping isn’t all pretty snakes, perfect enclosures and cute little photoshoots. Sometimes it’s just you, your snake and a very personal attack on your dignity.

But would I change a thing? Absolutely not. 🫶🏽

Alfie, you’re lucky you’re such a beautiful boy, because WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL WAS THAT?! 😭😂

PS. Before the reptile police clock in for their shift… 🚨😂

My pup was OUTSIDE the reptile room until I jumped and squealed like I’d just been personally assaulted (because frankly, I had been). She came in to check on me and touched my hand, which startled Alfie and resulted in another defensive strike to tell her she was too close.
- No, I wasn’t offering my dog up as a snack.
- No, I wasn’t encouraging an interaction between them.
- And yes, I know what I’m doing (mostly 😉)

I was simply a gorlll who had just been VIOLATED by her own snake and reacted accordingly 😂💀

If you’ve never been unexpectedly shat on, congratulations on your luxurious lifestyle. The rest of us are out here fighting for our lives 🤣

Moral of the story: Sometimes the snake isn’t the only one who loses their s**t 💩

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24/10/2026

No matter how many times I stop to admire him, Loki always manages to remind me why I fell in love with these incredible green reptiles in the first place 🐍

💬 Could you ever see yourself keeping a Green Tree Python?

Ps. I did play around with the edit settings on IG 💚

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23/10/2026

A LITTLE GLIMPSE INTO MY WORLD 🤍

Behind every pretty snake photo is a whole lot of work that rarely makes it onto social media.

The cleaning, the feeding, the endless water changes, the occasional attitude problem (usually from the snakes, sometimes from me 😂) and all those little moments in between. It’s not always glamorous, but there’s something pretty special about building a life around animals you’ve loved for as long as you can remember.

At least somewhere amongst the chaos, I get to share a little piece of that world with all of you 🦋

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19/10/2026

Oh, how I LOVE a yellow neo! 💛🐍

There’s just something about those beautiful yellow scales, little speckles and that adorable face that gets me every single time 🥹 This was a taken a year ago now!!

And to think that one day, those gorgeous yellows gave an entirely different colour palette when it came to OCC. The magic of Green Tree Pythons never gets old! 🦋

💛 Are you team yellow neo or red neo?

17/10/2026

HELLO? YES, I’D LIKE TO ORDER MORE SNAKES PLEASE 🙏 📞🐍

Unfortunately, the only number I seem to have saved is the one that leads to more reptiles 😭😂

At this point, it’s not a hobby. It’s a subscription service with absolutely NO cancellation policy.

And somehow, there’s always room for just ONE more 🤭

📞 Be honest… how many snakes are currently on your wishlist? Because I KNOW I’m not the only one with a problem 😂

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14/10/2026

CQTR EXPLAINED | HOUSING EDITION 🦋

This is one of the most debated questions in reptile keeping, and the answer isn’t as simple as picking a tank size!

There’s a BIG difference between minimum standards, recommended housing and what an individual animal actually needs.

In this CQTR Explained edition, we’re breaking down Queensland’s published minimum standards, my personal enclosure recommendations, rack systems and why usable space matters!

And before anyone asks… I’m NOT anti-rack. I’m PRO-appropriate husbandry! 🤍 Different housing methods have their place, provided they meet the individual animal’s needs.

🌿 LET’S TALK ENRICHMENT!

Enrichment isn’t about cramming an enclosure with toys or excessive clutter. To me, it’s about creating opportunities for natural behaviours: secure hides and cover, branches and perches for climbing, rocks and different textures to explore, and suitable surfaces that can even help with shedding.

Feeding can be enriching too! Occasionally placing a safely thawed feeder in the enclosure can encourage a snake to use its natural senses to find food.

My snakes also enjoy supervised time outside their enclosures, exploring grass and climbing different structures when conditions are safe and suitable.

It’s not about how much STUFF you add. It’s about giving your animal meaningful opportunities to behave naturally.

This isn’t about shaming keepers or claiming there’s only one correct way to house a snake. It’s about understanding our animals, encouraging better husbandry and never stopping learning. The animals should always come first! 🤝

📸 IMAGE CREDITS: Some images of the snakes and the vision rack were sourced via Google for educational illustration. If you own one, please reach out so I can credit you appropriately 🤍

📖 SOURCE: QLD Code of Practice – Captive Reptile and Amphibian Husbandry (2020). Always check your local requirements.

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