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We came home the other night and found one of our green tree snakes swallowing the other one! They are both juveniles around a year old. They had just been fed so I know he wasn't hungry. The only thing I can think happened is that they both went for the same cricket and the one ended up getting the other in his mouth and just kept swallowing.

I know kingsnakes do this but i had never heard of green tree snakes eating other snakes. They were both the same size, one very slightly larger, so I'm baffled. Any insight would be helpful, I feel really bad about this.

Wendy

I've never kept rough greens, but it's not too unusual for a lot of other species if left unattended with food. I actually had a burmese swallow a smaller retic that way "back in the olden days" (before there was an internet as such, where I could learn from the other poor sucker's mistakes). Since then I've never fed snakes in the same enclosure unless I stayed to keep an eye on them, and I've still had to separate snakes a couple of times when putting them back after feeding...
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