About 3 years ago I made a mistake of temporarely keep some hatchling annectans together why I was making some hatchling racks. Pituophis can be canniballistic.
Although interesting , lesson learned and to be shared.
Take care
Jason
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A fatal mistake I made in the passed .
Jason Nelson
Mar 03, 2005 11:14 AM
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Jason Nelson
Mar 03, 2005 11:15 AM
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Jason Nelson
Mar 03, 2005 11:16 AM
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Shaun Roberson
Mar 03, 2005 11:27 AM
Wow, and that didn't occur while you were feeding anything? When the smell of food is in the air, they can get pretty carried away, but I've never seen an all out act of cannabalism like that. At least it didn't eat a snow!!!!
P&S Pituophis
Shaun Roberson
Mar 03, 2005 11:28 AM
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Nokturnel Tom
Mar 03, 2005 02:29 PM
Just not something you would expect to see EVER with Pits. Too bad for the one that became lunch, did the one who ate it regurge? Or did it hit a growth spurt? Tom Stevens
Jason Nelson
Mar 03, 2005 07:19 PM
He ended up regurging after struggling for about hour .
Jason
lowgun
Mar 04, 2005 08:25 PM
I have found with my two Sonorans, that they will eat anything alive or recently deceased. Have found a couple of academic sites that list that they have been known to eat other snakes.
gofer
Mar 03, 2005 11:55 AM
Sorry for the loss Jason, but thanks for the pics and for sharing that.
Gregg
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Gregg F.
jcherry
Mar 03, 2005 05:13 PM
Jason,
great picture It never ceases to amaze me the folks that have this happen. Probally the worst case I ever saw was a customer that kept a 3' corn with her ball python that was about 2 1/2' and three times as big around as the corn. The worst part of it all is that usually after they eat another snakes the meal is too large or whatever and then they regurge and end up with eshphogial problem.
Thanks for the pic. I am sending the link to that pic. to my entire mailing list.
John Cherry
Cherryville Farms
Cherryville Farms - Reptiles
guttersnacks
Mar 27, 2005 04:29 PM
I know this topic is kinda buried way down the forum, but what the heck, I've never been in here before and thought I'd share. A buddy of mine was keeping a baby hognose and baby gopher together, and the gopher ate the hognose (not feeding time related), so now my friend is down 1 snake. Bummer right? It gets worse, then the gopher barfed up the hognose, and died from that. Sheesh, now he's down 2 snakes.
Bad day for snake and keeper alike. Lesson learned never to be repeated.
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Tom
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