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Well of the two specimens I have here, one is really skinny so I tubed it some egg last week. It refused to assist feed on defrosted lizards or snakes. Today I noticed that it passed the egg so I took it out and gave it another 10cc's of egg yolk via a tube and then kept its mouth open and placed in a lizard like last week. It usually just opened its mouth and spat the food out but this time it used the kitchen counter to mash the lizard further down its throat and ate it. Well its a start.

Dan

Oh, that fist pic it wiggled under some electric chords and I did not touch it and let it do its thing with the lizard.

Dan

Glad you got him feeding. Its one amazing snake. Its hard to see there eyes because the coloring, or maybe its just me. Keep up the awesome work.
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Cameron

You can't see the eyes because they're vestigal - evolutionarily on the way out. Dan, correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't have a normal spectacle.

This is not a colubrid or a boid, but something much more primitive, sort of back there with the shield-tailed snakes and Asian pipe snakes on the snake family tree, just behind my good friends loxocemus.

Billy

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Phillyherping

Hi.......new to this forum...what do they normall eat?...

(stupid yet working scent method for corns these days seems to be tuna water.....they say it works for hognosed too....)

...........just a thought.......if it works for corns may work for alot of other odd things..........

I got a friend here that breeds axylotols......(spell).......and working on species of amphiumas......and different species of newts and fogs..........if you need these types of food items......

good luck.........sweet snakes........

still looking here for stuff........Thanxx........
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