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To make a long story short I tossed a small tree frog in with a large sharptail snake and to my surprize by the end of the day the frog was gone and the snake had a small but visable lump in its belly. Has anyone ever observed this? this is the first tiem I was ever able to get an indevidual from this species to take prey in captivity. Any thoughts are welcome
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That's interesting! I've heard of them taking slender salamanders. I've had mine for a little over two years now and he's still going strong. I've never offered him vertebrate prey and he's refused worms, various insects, and reptile eggs (a sagebrush lizard layed a clutch of duds). He's been eating slugs exclusively, which works fine for me.

Good luck with your guy,
Alice

Thanks I will get a picture up tomorow. I was just as amazed as you are. My son caught the frog and we let him keep it for a few hours. After that I figured hey I would toss it in with the Sharptails. Clearly they would get along untill I set the little bugger free but low and behold the frog is gone. You as well as I know Sharptails can get out of anything so the enclosure was excape proof. I did not actualy witnes it but it must have been eaten. I can only asume the largest sharptail took it as that is the only one that could have taken a prey item of that size.

I know what you mean about getting out of anything. I have mine in a little tank with a sliding screen and I clamp it shut so that there is no give. Since my guy is about a foot long now and pencil width, I thought I could get away with leaving the pin out. I woke up the next morning to find about two inches of him protruding through the pin hole. It was a really tight squeeze and I spent the next half hour working him back into the tank (I was afraid for a while that I'd have to break the tank and saw through the metal to release him). He's got some scale trauma from the ordeal, but hopefully it's nothing that a shed or two won't mend. Never under estimate how small a space these guys can wriggle through.

-Alice

Tell me about it the little one got away a week or two ago. The big one is absolutly huge. I mesured her shed skin today and it is 15" That makes her the biggest sharptail I have ever seen but I understand they can get up to 19"
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