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I had a few of my non-feeding alternas (force-fed mouse tails only) housed together.

This one is not a non-feeder anymore!

If she survives, she will not be housed with her same-size or smaller litter mates anymore!

If I get scolded for this, I guess I deserve it!
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.1 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
6.8 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 20??

You should not get scolded. I am very sorry that this happened.

Kings being kings. Very interesting!!!

I hope the snake doesn't regurge and suffer problems from that.

Thanks for sharing.
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Genesis 1:1

>>You should not get scolded. I am very sorry that this happened.
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>>Kings being kings. Very interesting!!!
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>>I hope the snake doesn't regurge and suffer problems from that.
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>>Thanks for sharing.

Yep.....it was always a feeder......it just found an item it wanted to feed on......
Even us that house kings together never house young snakes together until they are brumated together as adults.......

I hope it'll be okay......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

The funny thing is that it took her 8 months to decide snake was on the menu.

On another note, one of my alternas that had shown a preference for anoles, took a deer mouse pinky last week. It was the first mouse she had taken except for chain fed pinkies after anoles.

Today she took a domestic mouse in deer mouse bedding.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.1 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
5.8 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
2.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 20??

>>The funny thing is that it took her 8 months to decide snake was on the menu.
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>>On another note, one of my alternas that had shown a preference for anoles, took a deer mouse pinky last week. It was the first mouse she had taken except for chain fed pinkies after anoles.
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>>Today she took a domestic mouse in deer mouse bedding.

Good news......BTW, where are you getting deer mice?
are you breeding them yourself?
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

John, yes I am breeding my own deer mice, mainly for the sake of my rubber boas. I got my colony start from Richard Hoyer.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.1 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
5.8 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
2.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 20??

Yeah Kent, those should have been housed seperately. Housing snakes together that are barely surviving is definitely asking for big trouble if they do eventually get the instinct going to feed on "something".

I would put that snake in a tiny container with temps of about 85-87 to minimize the chance of a regurge episode now. You sure as heck don't need a previously starving snake to regurge on top of it already not getting a much nourishment to begin with. A regurge will REALLY jeopardize it's health, and quite possibly it's very life now.

Good luck with it. And let us know how things go. Hope you have the other one's housed seperately now, or you just might be seeing more bulges and sguiggles in the near future.

cheers, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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"some are just born to troll and roll"

Well, at least she finally ate something!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Well thats a bummer. I've actually never seen canabalism in greybands before. Hope he at least digests it. Dave.