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Wyvern
at Fri Jul 11 20:21:31 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Wyvern ]
This is an update to a thread posted a month ago about a wild caught black rat snake found. http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1537310,1537310
It was confirmed this week that the snake is a male via probing by a breeder. The following photos are of the snake 1 month after capture and with him all cleaned up and looking fairly nice. He has been able to rehydrate himself, get a few meals into his belly, and shed skin. With improved health, colors have started coming out in him. The coral (orangey-red) color on him is now very bright in spots whereas before had been very dull/pale.
Injuries are healing nice too. Left eye injury may cause some loss of vision still too soon to tell (eye has some cloudy spots). Also treating with panacur for a very heavy pinworm parasite load. His behavior with food indicates he was probably attacked by some critter that was mouse-like as he ran away from f/t mice I tried giving him. He did ultimately settle down and cautiously eat a small f/t rat once he was assured it was dead and not going to go after him. After a couple of rats he finally got brave enough to eat some f/t mice.
14 photos in all. Will be breaking them down into small groups for those who may be on dial up and can't handle all pics in one post.
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 Update: Wild caught albino black rat - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:21:31 2008
- Pics 1-3 - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:24:31 2008
- Pics 4-6 - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:25:49 2008
- Pics 7-9 - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:28:30 2008
- Pic 10-14 (includes eye close ups) - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:33:15 2008
- Cripes... pink sky???.... dunno why - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:41:57 2008
- Awesome! ... - Redmoon, Fri Jul 11 23:08:27 2008
- very nice snake you have there n/p - FRoberts, Sat Jul 12 09:58:22 2008
- RE: Update: Wild caught albino black rat - DMong, Sat Jul 12 20:22:50 2008
- RE: Update: Wild caught albino black rat - Upscale, Sat Jul 12 22:21:35 2008
- here's an albino with normal eye color - colby, Tue Jul 15 11:46:31 2008
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