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Well this is a first..

ghosthousecorns

ghosthousecorns

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I left this little ghost stripe boy with a pinky and I guess he was still hungry... I found him having dessert. I have heard of snakes eating their own sheds before but this is the first time I've seen it. I hope it gets digested OK!
 

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Could this be a sign he isn't getting enough vitamins or something else possibly? I am completly shooting from the hip here but just curious.
 
Pretty sure I read it's just a way of covering their tracks. Which makes sense to me, so i'm gonna stick to that. :cool:
 
That happend when the skin smells like mouse or the mouse sticked to the skin und the snake eating both.

The question here is, why you put a skin in the feeding container? O_O
 
I am sure that she probably didn't put the shed in there, rather the snake shed while in the container(?). Thats cool though, I have never seen a snake eat their own shed, thats something you hear about more like with leopard geckos.
 
Angela is correct, all I put in there was a pinky which he was eating when I left the room. The shed happened afterwards... I heard they will eat their shed to hide the evidence there is a snake around from predators, but it also probably smelled like a mouse since he had just eaten in there. :shrugs:
 
That's cool that you actually captured this in photos, Jen! There have been at least three incidents between my snakes and my sister's where I suspected that this happened, but I had no real evidence except for a scrap of shed in what I knew was a clean tub.
 
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