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This is pretty much guaranteed to happen with this snake now... guess I need to feed him more?

//Todd

lol... He must be confused... I'd say keep your hands out of his way...
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Sorry, but I laughed out loud at that second pic with the onery little bugger hanging from your hand with the mouse still in his coils. Gotta love the personality on that one.
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it looks like a case of pinky addiction,by any chance did start him on pinkies? C

Beaker- yes, I was laughing the whole time, too! My neighbor came by just as I was about change his water and clean up after him, and I was like, watch this... hehe.

Yes- started him off on mouse pinks, then mouse fuzzies- now, he's eating rat pinks...

I think I just need to offer him more food/food more often.

//Todd

Do you ever take him out to handle him or is it that he is conditioned to come flying with a brutal attack when the lid is taken off, thinking he will be fed? With some snakes, that can happen.

That pic of him hanging there is pricless!!!! Gorgeous snake, by the way!
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Genesis 1:1

Yes- I handle all of my snakes. They're pets first and foremost!

Thanks!
//Todd

Good Deal! ( thumbs up! )
My female splendida has come flying out of her hide box bent to destroy the world and everything in it a few times during feeding time.
Splendida though do have a really intense feeding response, right? I am new to them in the past year, so I don't have much experience. Have your splendida been monsters during feedings?
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Genesis 1:1

Haha!

You're asking the wrong guy- I'm new to them too! (within the last year)

So far, the guy pictured above has always been a feeding machine, but the sib female is very timid in general, including during feeding. (have to leave the room, etc.)

Same goes for the axanthic and the het axanthic pair I got up in Arlington- actually, even more so.

//Todd

hahahah, keep it up and you will look like me!!!
Todd Hughes

Haha!

That's what I aspire to, man!

//Todd

That has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Was he constricting you in that first pic?

Not that time, but was BIG time in these shots(different occasion):

//Todd

That IS a beautiful splendy! Caught a BIG female today on the island, nowhere near as purty but now I got a pair of chocolates for this season!
Todd Hughes