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Posted by dryguy on August 28, 2002 at 15:47:49:
In Reply to: Excellent post! And here a *True confession*............... posted by Fred Albury on August 28, 2002 at 14:32:15:
Never got any answers..Does anyone routinely vary their Dry's diet with chicks, reptiles,etc...Trying to simulate "natural" diet conditions???
If so, have you noticed any difference in health, vigor etc??
:: I saw a really interesting thread on the field collecting forum. It starts with "snakes eating snakes" dated 8/27/02. Give it a read it's interesting.
:: Anyways, it got me wondering if any the drymarchon keepers here feed their indigos snakes once in a while. Years ago when I had an indigo I did so and my snake ended up getting an amoeba invadens infection that killed him. No vets here in Spokane that knew their @ss from their elbow and the one I took him to didn't think flagyl would be necessary. Was a damn hard loss to take let me tell ya !! But I digress.
:: So my question is if any of you buy garbage snakes like corn snake morphs ;-) (perfect indigo food IMO LOL !!), and treat them for parasites, let them fully metabolize the drugs and then feed 'em to the indigo. Anyone out there willing to admit or elaborate on this practice (if it IS a practice) ?
:: If your a corn snake morph lover, go ahead and flame me, it's just my opinion :-)
::Thane
:Thane,
:First thanks for haveing the guts to post this post, so often people do what is "politically correct", in their jobs...in their homes...in their social lives. Thanks for having the huevos to say you use corns as food.
:I dont like corns...
:It shows.
:As far as useing them for food, I have used baby corns for food, just out of the egg as an eastern Indigos first food item.
:Havent used adult corns, imagine it would work the same. Frankly i WOULDNT feed my adult indigos corns, primarily because I would be worried about them getting adicted to them and then refuseing the mice that I offer them or the rats that I offer them.
:I HAVE however fed my largest male eastern indigo rattlesnakes.
:Mostly western diamondbacks, but he also ate a ruber(Sorry all you Ruber lovers out there, but food is food)
:The guy that owned my largest male Eastern(Cadillac) used to feed it ROAD KILL. YES...I didnt stutter, I said ROAD KILL.
:Squirrels, psossums(small ones) rats, birds ..whatever.
:I am amazed by this insane practice. But indigos are VERy hardy snakes with EXTREMELY fast metabolisms, and I think that it is this metabolism that is their saveing grace, they dont retain the food for very long before porcessing it and defecateing it. I BELIEVE that this helps them not to retain alot of the nasties that they other wise would retain if they were, say a boa.
:W/C drymarchon have heavy parasite loads though, due to the frigs, fish and multitude ofw/c prey they eat, and they STILL seem to breed and thrive...Go Figure...
:Would I be above feeding a corn to an adult Indigo?
:Well in my younger days we did so with rattlesnakes, and had allthe kids in the neighborhood there to winess the battle royale between the two. But nowadays I would decline.
:Remember...I still thoroughly DISLIKE MOST cornsnsnakes.
:So, I have no real empathy for them, but I wouldnt feed them off to my indigos at this juncture(Midlife?) in my life.
:Now...as for corns used for bass bait.....THATS an entirely diffrent matter..................
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: "Corns....natures perfect bass bait"
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: Fred
: (Aztec Reptiles)
:P.S.
:I wouldnt hybridize corns with Indigos either B.T.W.)
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