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Hi

Just thought i would share this special moment

It's the first time the specimen has taken a pinky with both heads more or les at the same time (actually first time both heads eat the same day)

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Jan Grathwohl

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Thats wild. A picture like that can easily make it into a calander,magazine,etc if you send it in.

>>Hi
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>>Just thought i would share this special moment
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>>It's the first time the specimen has taken a pinky with both heads more or les at the same time (actually first time both heads eat the same day)
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>>Regards
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>>Jan Grathwohl
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>>HERPBREEDER.com - The Herpetological database
>>HERPBREEDER.dk - My private collection
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Chris Harrison

>>Hi
I have never owned a two-headed snake, nor do I know anything about them, but it seems logical that you would only feed it one mouse at a time because it only has one body. Why do you feed it two pinkies at once? Isn't it hard to digest both at once?
Thanks
Niko

>>Just thought i would share this special moment
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>>It's the first time the specimen has taken a pinky with both heads more or les at the same time (actually first time both heads eat the same day)
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>>Regards
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>>Jan Grathwohl
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>>HERPBREEDER.com - The Herpetological database
>>HERPBREEDER.dk - My private collection
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Hi Niko

The reason both heads are feed at the same time at this occassion, is that both feel hunger, and as one of them got its pinky, the other head tried to eat the same pinky. Insteed of letting them fight over the same fooditem, i provided them one each (the snake has on the last couple of feedings eaten two items - but with the same head previously)
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Jan Grathwohl

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Cool......CHRIS' COLUBRIDS

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Can I just tell you how amazing that is!

Question about "two headed monsters". Do their eggs appear any different than a regular snake? Also, what are the odds of this trait showing up? 1 in 10,000? more?

Again, great picture. Thanks for sharing.
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Jesse Rothacker
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Hi jesse

The picture might have been slightly bigger, although i did not thought about it then (thinking it might be a normal baby)

The odds for a baby like this i VERY low, i have actually never heard of at sinaloae like this before, and i reckon that at least 100.000 has been breed over the years around the world. A guess would be like 1 in a million or something like that, but i don't have any studies showing this.
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Jan Grathwohl

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Thanks again for shairing the picture of your double-headed milk. Stuff like that is what gives me a healthy addiction to the forums on kingsnake.com.

Just curious, what was the first thing that went through your mind when you first saw the little guy(s)? (I'm assuming you hatched him yourself). I can only imagine the "striking-gold feeling" I would go through if I ever hatched one.
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Jesse Rothacker
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Hi Jesse

Must say that the first thing running through me head when i hatched this one, was... hmm... thats odd, never would have thought of twins (mistaked it for being twins at first), then i took the animal out of the incubater and got even more amazed.

I actually did'nt think it was going to survive at first, but well.. now its almost half a year ago.
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Jan Grathwohl

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I just have a question. Does just one head control the body or are both able to? Also, there is obviously going to be a bottleneck when they ingest the food at the same time, that might become one really large food item in the end. Cool pic though.
Jaxel

Both heads are able to control the body, but the left head is the most dominant of them.

I only feed the specimen, what i would feed a normal specimen of the same species (2 pinkies at the moment per feeding).
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Jan Grathwohl

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That is one cool snake you have and top they a two headed snake
Sweeeeeeeeetttttt