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Fish_Demon
at Sun Sep 6 23:50:22 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Fish_Demon ]
Although I've never kept anything "frightening" like a Blood Python, without a doubt the snake I own with the strongest feeding response is my 2007 anery female KSB (named "Optimus Prime"). Any hand reaching into her tank has a 90% chance of getting bitten and constricted... The last 10% is for when she's in her humid hide and there's just not enough room to strike. If I let her, she'll keep eating until she physically can't fit any more mice in her body, and within 24 hours of her last meal she'll be poking her head out of the shavings, ready and waiting waiting to strike again. All she thinks about is food.
In the first photo I posted below, you'll notice she has a bunch of shavings in her mouth. That's because she viciously struck at the camera when I was trying to get a photo, even though she ate just a few days ago. And yet, as soon as I take her out of her cage, she's the most docile snake you could hope ever for, the kind you would want to take to presentations for children and stuff like that. She didn't even seem to care when I had to stick my finger in her mouth a few minutes ago to get all those shavings out of there.

 ----- - Natalie
(San Francisco Bay Area)
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