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HerperHelmz
at Tue Jul 5 17:00:25 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HerperHelmz ]
I've been maintaining an adult Male Eastern Milk Snake since the beginning of 2005. He has escaped twice, but is quite the captive.  He's probably eaten over 50 mice since I got him. He sticks to "large pinkies" even though he is big enough for fuzzies and hoppers. He's around 25" with good body weight.
Well, for any of you that think adult Eastern Milks won't eat other snakes, he ate a live Northern Brown Snake last night. The Brown snake knew what was coming, he smelled the Milk I guess and knew what was going to happen, evidence by the nervousness and awkward tongue flicking. When the brown moved towards the milk, the milk just calmly turned his head and grabbed it, and started chewing. The Brown was about 10". No constriction was involved, so the brown escaped a couple times. But the 3rd time around it was swallowed. The feeding took about 10 minutes.
I'll be trying different species of snakes in his next feedings.
Mike
Michael's Place
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