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This is one of my most clearest pics I ever took, but I'm no good with a picture scanner so the pic came out blurry. This is my regal, 8 inches long, attacking a shorthead garter snake, the regal did employ some partial constriction, and I got a pic of that, but it's one of those blurry pics where you can see what's happening in the pic, but barely.

lol this pic didn't really turn out good...

This is a pic of a 30 inch regal ringneck snake found in California

Here is a picture of a large, but less than 30 inches, regal ringneck snake eating an unscented pinky mouse, Rich G. who posts on another forum, I don't know if he frequents this forum, but he has given me permission to post the pic. His regal was caught 14 years ago, and 13 years ago it started eating unscented pinky and fuzzy mice. He usually just gives the snake 4 or 5 pinkies a feeding.

In other news, Giant has entered hibernation last night, she was refusing everything for the last 2 weeks, after eating a 5 inch dusky salamander, and she was losing weight quickly, so I put her into hibernation.
Michael

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I'm looking at this (5 pinks per feeding) and asking why my Regal has such a small appetite. It maintains its weight quite well (and is growing) on one small anole a week. It refuses to eat more than that.

Interesting pics!

Frank
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Here is how Rich G. practicly "tricked" his regal into eating unscented pinkies, his regal was 18 inches long when caught and it is around 29 inches now.

"this guy was easy. Like most ringnecks he insisted on snakes in the beginning. After a couple DOR snakes he started accepting lizards. I always use butter, cream cheese or coolwhip containers as water dishes. I just cut a hole in the lid. I usually place snakes food items on top of their dishes to keep it out of the substrate. The ringneck got to know the routine so well that everytime I opened his enclosure he went straight to the water dish and started nosing around. I started joking that I could probably feed him rocks if I put them on the dish. When I took him out of hibernation in the spring of 1994 i Fugure he would be REALLY hungry so I used that oppotunity to place a pink on the water dish. He gobbled it right down and has been eating them ever since. Nowdays I scatter them around his cage furnishings so he has to forage. I have several friends who have also switched ringnecks over to pinkies by using lizard scent. I think the main thing to be successful is to be patient and make sure the snake is well established in captivity before one starts trying to switch them."

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Interesting pics. I particularly like the 14 yr old regal eating the pinkie. I was not aware they lived over 10 years.
You can see its a well cared for snake. I wonder if pinkie is to high in fat for it . I imagine in wild they dont eat them esp since a mother mouse could kill the snake.

Actually, if a ringneck snake comes across a nest of pinky mice, chances are the ringneck would attack and attempt to eat one if it moved. Also, that snake isn't 14 years old, it has been in captivity for 14 years, by how big the snake is now, and how big it has grown in 14 years, it's estimated age is around 25.
Michael
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Wow 25 years thats unreaL. I would think 10 years would be average for such small snake.
I imagine they would eat pinkies in wild though again doubt they would come across them much and would imagine its a big risk as a mother mouses bite would kill a ringneck even a big one.