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Yesterday I looked in my '05 mexican hog cage and the female was trying to eat the male. She has his head in her mouth and blood was comming out from her rear fang puncturing his neck (if a snake has a neck lol) So I grabbed her and she still had a hold of him and dunked her into cold water and she released. i now have them separated. What is wierd is that they are both the same size and both get fed every week separately. I know have them housed saparate, but wow I would have never thought. They are both about 6-7"
Just and FYI any comments?
Nick

Wowzers! Maybe he had some of the prey's scent on him? When was the last time they ate?

It had been 5 days after feeding.
Nick

This male ate one of his siblings. The one and only time that this has happened to me in 7 years of working with hogs.

He does look like hes got some nice weight on him!!

You know, I guess it'll take posts like this to drill it home for people. Thanks for posting, and do me a favor and reply to others who insist on keeping their hognoses together.
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"The irrational fear of snakes is the only excuse a grown man has... to act like a complete sissy" - Colchicine

... nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
Susan Sontag

I lost a hatchling kennerlyi to a sibling also. They were just a couple weeks old.