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RE: Odd (?) snakes.

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Posted by: jderyke at Sun Feb 8 23:38:02 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jderyke ]  
   

Once in a while you get lucky with an individual animal, and they'll eat about anything you drop in. Others will starve before accepting any prey item. I had good luck with a particular Drymarchon margaratiferous- wild caught in Central America- the males are spectacularly colored. Over a 7-year period, he ate mostly pinky mice, sometimes minnows from his water dish, small frogs and an occasional anole. A second example purchased at the same time from the same importer would only eat anoles, and died in 2 months. Luck of the draw, I'd say- don't be discouraged by the first one you get. I've also seen photos of the rarest racer known- a handleable adult Red Coachwhip!


   

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