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Hey all,

So, I had just finished feeding my female smooth scale and went to grab her out of her feeding box. As soon as I grabbed her, she grabbed me back...lol. It was obviously a feeding response bite so I can only blame myself for the bite.

I have been bitten by a lot of snakes over the years (Biologist by trade) but I was very surprised by how much this bite hurt. So I decided to take a couple documentation shots.

Culprit just after bite- F3 sunset E. johnii

bite-

Hope you enjoyed,

-Chris

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Christopher E. Smith
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Captive Bred Herps

beautiful snake,i want one of the orange ones.i have three of the brown beauties

Most sandboas don't bite often, but when they bite they bite hard. It seems the less often they bite, the harder they bite.

Kenyans bite a lot, but it isn't that hard.
Rough-scaleds don't bite as much, but their bite is amazing!
I haven't ever been tagged by my johnii, but they have almost tagged me many times.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas