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All "Others" Photo Gallery It was suggested to me that a photo gallery for the other critters and interests might be useful to the membership. So here you go, Walt. :) |
African House snake babies!
01-13-2015, 04:14 PM
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01-14-2015, 01:22 PM
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01-16-2015, 07:33 PM
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01-17-2015, 10:50 AM
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beautiful though... really <3 Why are they recommended to be kept together? That's fairly unusual for snakes.. behavioral point of view?
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01-17-2015, 12:19 PM
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There is a theory among snake breeders, of many types of snakes, even corns, that keeping a clutch together until they all shed for the first time improves how well they all eat.
Since they hatch out in shed, pretty much, and will shed about a week after hatching and they absorb their egg yolks before emerging and aren't hungry that first week of life, the first week is considered to have the least risk of cannibalism of all. In the wild, the babies are very likely to stick pretty much together until that first shed, in whatever shelter they can find and don't move around much.
It does seem to work a lot of the time on improving the percent of good feeders in a clutch, so though I'm pretty paranoid about cannibalism, I decided to try it with this clutch.
But it is not recommended to cohab these guys much past that first shed either, maybe even more so than with corns. So they will be separated as soon as they shed.
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01-18-2015, 01:26 AM
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I know that there are fears about cannibalism, howerver, when I purchased my boys they were in the same tank at the pet store, and the shopowner didn't seem to think there would be a problem with keeping them together, he may not have been very knowledgeable about them, I'm not sure. I had no clue as they are my firsts. As they grew though, I could not bring myself to separate them because they sleep in an adorable tangled mess. They do not eat in their tank or together and over the summer I had to move, having a friend keep them, later finding out he only fed them once in the two months he kept them, (not exactly on friend terms any more) but they have never even been aggressive toward each other. I had feared that something could have happened during the time they didn't eat, but the only negative outcome was that I allowed a 6 year old boy to hold Neiko when I first got them back and that was the first time either of them had bitten a person. I felt horrible.
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01-18-2015, 01:28 AM
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And what a beautiful clutch
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02-02-2015, 04:57 PM
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02-02-2015, 05:40 PM
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Aww, so tiny and cute!
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03-17-2015, 07:54 PM
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oh my god we need more pictres here !!!!!!
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