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kfisher29
at Fri Sep 30 08:25:34 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by kfisher29 ]
It seems like all the books say not to overfeed,but I have a story about a tangerine honduran milksnake that went from hatchling out of the egg size to 3 and a half feet long in five months. I worked at a pet store in houston,t.x. and a hatchling honduran escaped from its deli cup. Behind the pet store there was one acre of land with parrot houses everwhere and buttloads of mice and mouse tunnels. Six months after the snake escaped the guy who takes care of the parrots came into the store and said there was a red snake in the bird house. So I went out there and there the honduran was. He was in mint condition and not fat at all,plus he spent the winter outside in the birdhouses,the birdhouses were heated with lamps to keep the birds warm. I've never seen any snake grow that fast and be so healthy in that short period of time. 3 1/2 feet long. He obviously ate all the time. We all had a hard time wrapping our mind around the fact that this was indeed the same snake that escaped given the growth.
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- Heat = faster growth - bluerosy, Fri Sep 30 00:33:58 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth - jlassiter, Fri Sep 30 00:55:53 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth - crimsonking, Fri Sep 30 04:21:56 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth - TobyEKing, Fri Sep 30 04:35:12 2005
- ....Heat = faster growth....mebbe... - regalringneck, Fri Sep 30 06:53:02 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth - mattbrock, Fri Sep 30 07:17:35 2005
 RE: Heat = faster growth - kfisher29, Fri Sep 30 08:25:34 2005- RE: That question scares me - FR, Fri Sep 30 11:05:35 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth and a bit of this ? - stinkypinky, Fri Sep 30 13:34:30 2005
- RE: actually, I do almost the opposite - willstill, Fri Sep 30 13:55:17 2005
- RE: I agree, Did it last year... - HerperHelmz, Fri Sep 30 16:40:35 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth - kingaz, Fri Sep 30 18:31:37 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth - bluerosy, Fri Sep 30 18:59:10 2005
- But then,......... - Kerby..., Fri Sep 30 19:44:38 2005
- I can't spell... - Kerby..., Fri Sep 30 19:45:24 2005
- Now that was FUNNY!!!!...........................n/p - TobyEKing, Fri Sep 30 19:49:59 2005
- RE: But then,......... - kingaz, Fri Sep 30 20:33:08 2005
- And I only let mine drink,.......... - Kerby..., Sat Oct 1 00:19:19 2005
- RE: And I only let mine drink,.......... - bluerosy, Sat Oct 1 02:29:03 2005
- ROFLMAO,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,n/p - thomas davis, Sat Oct 1 02:36:53 2005
- RE: Heat = faster growth - kingaz, Fri Sep 30 20:26:05 2005
- I used to do that with turtles... - foxturtle, Sat Oct 1 09:36:39 2005
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