today i walked in to my snake room as i do every morning to check on things and i found my female rosy eatting a fully developed neonate i knew rosys would eat unfertilized ovum but i didnt know that they would eat the neonates has anyone else ever seen this behavior
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Cannibalistic behavior in rosys ?
imridethelghtng
Oct 31, 2004 04:32 PM
Replies (5)
bthacker
Oct 31, 2004 10:53 PM
Yikes! Did she get it down? I have read that they do somewhere. Real bummer.
imridethelghtng
Oct 31, 2004 11:08 PM
yeah she got it down i woke up and found her with it almost completely swallowed i was very upset by it i didnt even know she was gravid
bthacker
Oct 31, 2004 11:44 PM
She have any more young? What locale?
imridethelghtng
Nov 01, 2004 04:27 AM
they are riverside rosys and no she didnt have any more there were 2 unfertilized ovum and she ate that too
flyfree
Nov 02, 2004 11:51 AM
The neonate was possibly stillborn, which would explain her eating it. I have heard of BCI accidently eating live young along with slugs and stillborns my mistake....this is also a possibility. It is unfortunate you lost this baby, but it is highly probable it was stillborn
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