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Posted by Thane on August 28, 2002 at 16:33:08:
In Reply to: Excellent post! And here a *True confession*............... posted by Fred Albury on August 28, 2002 at 14:32:15:
Fred,
: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.
>>The Indigo I had would eat anything that moved even after long periods of eating only mice or small rats he would get a snake and later have no problem reverting to rodents.
: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.
>>The fast metabolism did NOT save my first indigo from >>succumbing to the intestinal amoebas (Amoeba Invadens). Which >>will NOT show in a fecal exam which I had done because of >>bloody stools. Vet SAID he knew about reptiles but he did not. >>This was about ten years ago before a good source of info. >>like kingsnake.com was available to us hobbyists. Anyways, I >>lost the animal and quite the hobby for five years because of >>it. I'm just getting back into it. What I would do if I was >>ever going to feed my indigo a snake would be feed them frozen >>thawed OR buy a garbage (sorry) snake and deparasitize it >>quarantine it and THEN let the let the battle rage. I am just >>curious if anyone here does that. Watching an indigo eat >>another snake is fascinating IMO but I am VERY leary to >>practice that with out advice from someone here after MY >>experience.
: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.
>> Why ??
: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.
>>Again, why ?
:Now...as for corns used for bass bait.....THATS an entirely diffrent matter..................
>>There ya go ! Heh he.
Thane
