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Cannibalism

Rich Z

Rich Z

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When I am packing bulk shipments, I will normally cull out the ones from the stuff I set up for retail sales and just put all of those culls into 5 gallon buckets with a water dish. They are in there for no more than 24 hours. Well, this afternoon I was packing a shipment and looked into one of the buckets and saw what I thought was a dead and bloated corn snake. I was surprised it could have gotten so bloated so quickly. But when I took a closer look, here is what I saw:

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This doesn't happen often, but it DOES happen!
 
Ewww...it does look like he ate a couple! I've been hearing a lot lately that the cannibalistic corns end up dying because they ate too much. Do you know if this is really true?
 
ouch!
I wonder what it ate......(well yeah corns but what morph)

hope that litle guy does survive....
 
wow! thats was the first time i ever seen a corn eat another one well n this case 2 or 3 i guess this another reason not to keep 2 corns in the sname cage also.
 
well

I have 2 male corns a anery and amel That have been living together for 1 year now in a 50 gallon tank but when chrismas comes im gunna serprate them because after seeing that i got worried!
 
WOW!

I've had it happen only once (in my younger and frugal years when I kept clutches together) and was AMAZED how huge the hatchling got from one sibling. From photo#1, I'd have bet $1000 he only ate one snake. Then I saw the second. That's even more bloated than my recollection, AND mine ate a pinkie. Well, directly or indirectly, one of them had! For the record, I don't recall having a regurge, or losing the cannibal. Not that I wish to repeat the experience, but I keep much better records now, and could verify.

Maybe you can double his price and market him as "Hannibal!" :D
 
Hi Rich, just wondering if it's ok for me to use this pic on another site to show that cannibalism does happen. Its a thread on housing together so I thought that it would be appropriate!

Cheers, Rach x
 
just give hima pm i doubt he will care but make sure he does know you will use it
 
I have 3 young corns housed together and never a problem. # weeks ago for christmas I got a pair of Baby Brazilian Rainbow Boa's. Last week the day after feeding my male eat my female :( He has know be renamed El Diablo :angry01:
 
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