• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Tri-Color Hognose Feeding Sequence

Nanci

Alien Lover
For TWGarland! (This is a FT mouse)

Step 1, the bite!

ZeeEats002cr600.jpg


Step 2, the flip!

ZeeEats004cr600.jpg


Step 3, 15 minutes later, envenomation complete!

ZeeEats008cr600.jpg
 
awww i love hoggies, but ive never seen one that colour, how cute! is it true that they head butt before bite? Id love a hoggie its their cute lil noses
 
Jenni, those are actually very old pics of him- maybe a year old? Now he's eating 14-17 gram small mice and he weighs 225g I _think_.

My Eastern who is very unhappy now due to having her abcess treated for four months closed-mouth strikes all the time. She won't bite, but she pecks like a chicken! Zee does a lot of probing/burrowing with his pointy nose, which can feel like a bite; however the times he actually bit me (feeding response) he just opened up and started chewing!
 
I love how that picture after he moves away from the belly shows how the venom/saliva pre-digests the prey. He actually chews while he is doing that. It takes him a good 30 minutes to eat.
 
Wow, thx Nanci, so thats what that looks like, lol, those pictures are great! :D

The envenomation looks brutal ;)

Hoggies are definately going in my (increasingly growing) wish list!!
 
as ewwww as those pics are, it hasnt put me off them! Can certain people have more of a reaction than others such as a spider bite or bee sting?:confused: sorry for all the questions
 
Back
Top