Larry,

Haha, get the whole food chain going, eh? I had a partial food chain going years ago with breeding mice, but that was short-lived with my fulfilling hockey schedule among other activities and barely being able to keep up with my snakes.

Strips of a larger snake...hm...like strips of fish that Thamnophis spp. have been known to take. That's interesting.

If it makes You feel any better, I would say the most difficult genus to keep is, if I am recalling correctly from many years ago, Salvadora (Patch-Nosed Snakes) which only eat the eggs of lizards, perhaps one species of lizard...? It's definitely a western genus out there. But yeah, You'd have to breed this particular species of lizard and have a steady supply of eggs year-round and/or discover some way to preserve them...refrigeration perhaps, like with Button Quail eggs??

Timothy

>>>>Hm? Now, I'm confused...I didn't even really get Larry's comment. Aren't Micrurus spp. general reptile eaters? The implication I am receiving is that they be snake-exclusive-eaters, or prefer snakes more than not...?
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>>Many will only eat snakes. Some will eat skinks, but they're not much easier to get. I've heard from at least one person who says they've gotten them to voluntarily takes strips cut from a larger snake which would greatly simplify things, but I've had no luck with it in the past.
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>>I won't get another coral until I either have a steady supply of cheap small snakes or a breeding colony of skinks...which pretty much requires me to start breeding crickets again... ugh.
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>>What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.


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T.J. Gould

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