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...please elaborate on the ophiophag ingestion. what morph? hell, what species? ball???? nice pic.
thanx
joe

Man, it sucks being in total opposite timezones cant catch anyone on here anymore..... well on to the question. Here is a link to where that picture came about, it is just a recreation of it. I forgot who it was but he hatched out an albino ball but it was DAB, so he fed it to his King Cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah).
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ive seen that one. the albino bp was dead in egg, or died just after hatching. i have no problem feeding snake to snake. i only wanted to know what morph was being fed to the snake in the pic that she posted. im sure the meal snake was either dead or deformed, or both. king cobras gotta eat too.
thanx
joe

i should have read your entire post before responding. im sorry if i came off like a jerk. that pic tosha posted shows a king (i think) eating something, and it aint just an albino. i only want to know what morph combo the prey snake is. whatever it is, i want one.
joe

...fooled. fake snakes. statues. i still want that morph though.

Its as real as they come.

dude that king cobra is atleast 6-8 foot. Has no baby colors. Thats an adult albino ball python.......which could have died for a myriad of reasons, egg binding, simply died, etc

even if it was already dead, i think by feeding snakes to snakes in captivity your just continuing the instinct.

i think if you bred snakes (that will eat other snakes)for several generations with no other food than rodents you could breed without the worry of losing a breeder.

i wouldnt mind feeding them to a big monitor or turtle though
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jake

my addiction:
0.2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
0.1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
1.0 albino cal king (zeus)
0.0.1 wc garter (zim)
hybrid breeders association
hybrid haven

Considering that king cobras are solely snake/reptile eaters and do not eat rodents, that would not be possible.

Do a Google search.
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~* Jen *~

Pink Lady Constrictors

Jen, it could be possible, with some work I'm sure. Hog nosed after all, are strictly amphibian, almost exclusively toad but frogs also, eaters in the wild. I still would rather captive cobras ate what was natural to them. Just my opinion.

Quig
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Don't interupt me when I'm talkin' to myself

That's my point. It isn't hurting anything to feed them their natural diet...if you think about it, it would actually help because what do most people feed their cobras? Normal baby ball pythons, cornsnakes, garters, etc right? By doing this, wouldn't it minimize the abundance of normal versions of these snakes and prevent overpopulation and/or possible homelessness if they became dumped pets at some point?
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~* Jen *~

Pink Lady Constrictors

Jen with work and dedication King cobras can be switched to rodent diets alot of the time. It takes alot of time for most cases and sometimes it's impossible to switch them. Out of 3 King's that I had in the late 90's all three would take rodents in one way or another. The largest female that I had (appr. 13ft) would eat scented rats without hesitation. My other female (appr 11ft) would eat snake sheds stuffed with rodents but the rodents had to be washed first. And my male would eat washed rodents tied together with a snake of some sort tied to the string-o-rats.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

I stand corrected then, it is possible to switch them. However, I don't see the harm in feeding them their natural preferred prey.
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~* Jen *~

Pink Lady Constrictors

there is no harm in feeding them snakes, but the only problem is finding enough snakes DOR (dead-on-road) that are fresh or other snakes that you don't have to kill as feeders. Just imagine how many 4ft corns it takes to feed a 13ft king cobra.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

WRONG! Snake-eating cannot be bread out. It would have already happened through "generations" of breeding.

Wrong topic - he wasn't talking about that picture.

Color me stupid but if you are in "India" how are you posting from a static dsl IP in TX? Thats on hell of an Ethernet cable. Awwww technology these days.
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Tosha
JET Pythons

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LOL - it was fake - a pretty good fake actually. I didn't actually realize until after I'd gotten home and looked at the picture - but the snake being eaten looks like a banana ball. But it was fake!!!!
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Tosha
JET Pythons

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First of all that is infact a real albino ball being eaten. It was a male that weighed close to 600 grams. It died from URI. That photo was taken for a Tshirt that you see alot of people wearing these days. It was being sold at the 04 Daytona show. A close freind of mine produced that snake from my first pair of het albino's that I sold him. Paul at Steel City Exotics

- not about the tangent to the albino nor to anyones personal opinion on how to feed snakes.

The one I took a picture of at the show was a fake.

Have a good weekend all.
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Tosha
JET Pythons

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