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This feller bites anything that moves near it, so I tried a pink and it ate it. Actually, its conditioned to eat once its hide is removed, so it just attacked like it always does and got a pink verses a snake snack.

Dan

Nice Dan!! That's not an easy feat. What type of snake were you using and did you scent the pink or was it just conditioned to nail anything that was offered to it once the hide was removed?
Rob

>>This feller bites anything that moves near it, so I tried a pink and it ate it. Actually, its conditioned to eat once its hide is removed, so it just attacked like it always does and got a pink verses a snake snack.
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL

Well he eats any snake, water, racer, rat, ringneck, name it, but its usually offered defrosted water snakes. And yea, once his hide is removed he comes straight up with its mouth open for anything that is moving as his only association with that hide being moved is that a meal comes next. I clipped the front legs of the pink to be sure it did not get turned off and did not scent it at all but rinced it well. I did the same with my eastern coral before but it did not work. It always coiled in a hide cave and I approached with a defrosted water snake on forceps and it would take and eat the snake. However when presented with a pink, it latched on and gummed it for a bit and eventually let it go. Since a feeder snake provides about 10 times the meal compared to a pink, its not worth feeding pinks anyway to corals. I find enough smashed feeder snakes on the roads to use anyway. And if the snake is too large, I just use the tail section and it eats any section I offer it.

Dan

...you da man...& yoe lil cobra rocks!

Dan, Nice looking snake. My Surinam Coral has not fed yet. I did offer it the Knife Fish. It seems happy in the set-up. I haven't tried eels yet but may next week.
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Tim Cole
www.Designeratrox.com/
www.AustinReptileService.net
www.AustinReptileExpo.com/
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