Mushu would probably be abnormal if he was not experiencing at least a little bit of "relocation stress" after all the moving around that his family has done recently. Hopefully that's all it is, and if so, he should get better once he's had a chance to get used to his new surroundings.
I've noticed that vet techs and pet store employees often seem to acquire a small zoo of their own. It seems to be an occupational hazard. :wink: I guess it's pretty hard to resist the temptation to fall in love with the special ones and take them home with you.
Corn snakes come in so many different colors and patterns now that it's hard to keep up. Ours is a "red albino" (aka amelanistic). I think he was probably the product of a so-called "double het cross" because when we got him at the pet store he was in an enclosure with at least half a dozen other little hatchlings the same size, and some white with a faint normal pattern and some dark, and at least one other the same color as he is. I didn't know much about corn snake genetics at the time, and I saved that chapter in the book for last because I was more concerned about learning what I needed to know to keep him happy and healthy (temperature, humidity, food, etc.) than I was about what color he was. But knowing now what I didn't know then, and assuming he was with his siblings, that's what I figure, although we didn't get a pedigree or anything like that.
Funny thing about money -- it seems to be a whole lot easier to spend too much of it than it is to earn enough of it. We try to save as much as we can, but we try to do the best we can for our reptilian "babies" (we have no human children). I'm no longer able to work, and my husband's career got off to a late start and then got derailed a couple of years ago. He now has a job that he loves, but he works for a non-profit and they can't afford to pay him what he's worth. So far we're able to just barely make ends meet as long as we're careful.
I think snow is beautiful, but only just so long as I don't have to go out in it.
Out the window, sitting in front of the heater with a cup of hot chocolate -- that's how I like to enjoy snow. And I like my hot chocolate real thick...
It's nice to cuddle a sleepy beardie on a winter day, too. :love5: