HE IS A OLD TIMER LOL!!!! TODD DONT LET THE OLD MAN LABEL YOU, HES LOSSING HIS MARBLES, HE IS DUBBING HIS UP AND COMING MBK LINE THE "BLACK WIDOW LINE" BECAUSE HE FED HIS MALE TO HIS FEMALE?!?!?
The above is a quote from my friend Chris Flowers on the mexicana sub forms. I was gonna wait and post this story after everyone's babies hatched and are sold /when the forums slow down a bit but, seeing how Chris brought it to light... I feel I should tell the story now. I'm posting it here because this is the forum I haunt most often & here is where I'd have posted it later on.
First of all let me say that that what happened is from my own stupidity and nothing else..and if my experience can help anyone else from doing as I did, something good will come of this..
I threw my MBK's together and fed them together for the past five months. She was a year older than he was and a tad bit larger..so she'd get a sm rat and he'd eat a couple large mice..he was always ready to eat so he'd be at the front of the cage at feeding time so I'd throw him a mouse first and then quickly feed her as she wasn't as aggressive in her feeding responces as he was & then him again when he finished the first & she was busy, the last feeding I noticed he was going after her rat while she was on it. (he tried a sm rat a month before & he couldn't get it down so I flushed it and fed him his 2 mice later)..so I threw him in his other mouse, assuming he ate the other already. he took it and I thought nothing of it.
Now a little about my set up.I have cages and tubs around my computer, in my living room.(till I get my snake room done) After I feed, I stick around & play on the computer & make sure everybody is eating, looking in the cage fronts for uneaten food. Didn't hear any thrashing, just figured they were both content and on the heat. my monitor is sitting on top of the cage that they were in. So a couple days later I'm on the computer and start faintly smelling something..thinking to find a mouse left behind, I pulled out the tub and there he was laying in the back on the heat, half eaten. Damn! I can't say for sure but, I think he didn't eat that first mouse and went for it later on, she finished her rat and went for it also but on the other end of the mouse & he couldn't back off fast enough. She could only get just so much of him down because she was filled with a rat. Or maybe she's just a pissed off lady and he finally pushed her too far or I wasn't feeding enough, I don't know..but I chalk it up to poor husbandry. My fault.
I'm still keeping some of my kings together and still feed em together. But now I OPEN every tub to get a visual & make sure there is no food left behind.
DAMN MBK's.. he was beautiful,..Tom Stevens stock..it's been a trying year for evansexoticenterprise...but I selfishly won't give up the experience of owning and admiring these fascinating and beautiful creatures. R.I.P. Hawkeye.
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Richard Evans
