Hatchling update
Nov. 29th, 2006 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99It's been almost two months since the hatching of corn snake babies #1 and #2. They're both healthy and active, and both have shed a couple of times, but they still hadn't eaten as of last night. So this morning, I took them to see the reptile vet. They were examined and pronounced very healthy with good muscle tone and jaw lines. Then they were wisked to the back room and tube-fed with baby snake mix. I'm to bring them back for two more no-charge appointments (at 8:30 in the morning on Wednesdays, joy), and hopefully by that time their little digestive tracts will have been jumpstarted and they'll eat on their own. Now that they've had at least one feeding and I have a way to ensure their survival until they condescend to start eating, I can begin to think of names for them...
Hmm.
Maybe Mida and Nyda or Shu and Shai. Ophida and Ouroboros. Tiamat and Telos. Heh and Hauhet. Nemesis and Nausicaa... Iphis and Ianthe. Nah. None of them sound right. Maybe Melian and Maia. Or Odyne and Ophelia. Or something.
I don't know. I found Iphis and Ianthe on a page full of mythological synopses (http://www.paleothea.com/Humans.html). Not sure if I like the names, but the myth was interesting:
"Iphis (eye'-fiss)
Iphis' daddy always wanted a boy. When Telethusa gave birth to a girl, she hid her privates and told her husband it was a boy, because she couldn't bear the thought of leaving her child to die on a mountain somewhere. But this isn't something that can be short term, and Iphis was raised as if she were a boy. She grows, and her father betroths her to Ianthe (above), and Iphis genuinely falls in love with her. But it's problematic that she's a girl, and she can't really accept the idea. Ianthe, meanwhile, has no idea that her fiance has the same chromosomes. Anyway, mama and Iphis pray a lot to Isis, who, at the last moment, makes the sex match the gender. This story is told in the Metamorphoses."
"Ianthe (ee-ahn'-thee) (th as in thin)
Ianthe married Iphis. This is normal, except that, for some reason, Iphis was a woman. But Iphis was changed into a man so that Ianthe could marry her/him. Ianthe was from Crete. I actually really love this story, it's my favorite from Ovid's Metamorphoses."
Hmm.
Maybe Mida and Nyda or Shu and Shai. Ophida and Ouroboros. Tiamat and Telos. Heh and Hauhet. Nemesis and Nausicaa... Iphis and Ianthe. Nah. None of them sound right. Maybe Melian and Maia. Or Odyne and Ophelia. Or something.
I don't know. I found Iphis and Ianthe on a page full of mythological synopses (http://www.paleothea.com/Humans.html). Not sure if I like the names, but the myth was interesting:
"Iphis (eye'-fiss)
Iphis' daddy always wanted a boy. When Telethusa gave birth to a girl, she hid her privates and told her husband it was a boy, because she couldn't bear the thought of leaving her child to die on a mountain somewhere. But this isn't something that can be short term, and Iphis was raised as if she were a boy. She grows, and her father betroths her to Ianthe (above), and Iphis genuinely falls in love with her. But it's problematic that she's a girl, and she can't really accept the idea. Ianthe, meanwhile, has no idea that her fiance has the same chromosomes. Anyway, mama and Iphis pray a lot to Isis, who, at the last moment, makes the sex match the gender. This story is told in the Metamorphoses."
"Ianthe (ee-ahn'-thee) (th as in thin)
Ianthe married Iphis. This is normal, except that, for some reason, Iphis was a woman. But Iphis was changed into a man so that Ianthe could marry her/him. Ianthe was from Crete. I actually really love this story, it's my favorite from Ovid's Metamorphoses."