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Black Rat Feeding

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Posted by: benisai at Fri Jun 6 14:59:39 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by benisai ]  
   

My dad just caught a wild black rat snake (Southwestern Virginia in the Appalachians) for me a couple of days ago. It's my first snake. I have it in a 20 gal tank. The snake is around 2 feet long & I don't know how old it would be. It's not very big in diameter -- possibly 3/4 inch at it's thickest part (maybe slightly smaller). Anybody know approximately about how old this snake might be?

It seems very curious and comes out of its hides pretty often and comes to check out what I'm doing when I have my hands in the tank.

I haven't tried to feed it anything yet, but I do have a blue-tailed skink in another cage that looks like it would be the right size for the snake to eat. Anybody have any experience with feeding these to a black rat? Any suggestions as to how I do it?

I can post a photo when I get home from work. I'm new to all this snake stuff, so thanks much for any help!

David

   

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