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Posted by Doug T on September 30, 2002 at 22:39:30:
In Reply to: ? for the breeders & moe... posted by regalringneck on September 30, 2002 at 21:34:12:
I know there are others who keep their dry's together. In my experience with Texas Indigos, the Texas male bit the crap out of the female when introduced for breeding. I don't trust my big eastern to be alone with his girlfriends for too long. I'll only leave them together for mating and I stick around until I see them start to "party". AFter that, the male seems less concerned about killing, as....well...you know.
I might one day try raising a pair of dry's together from young age to adulthood and see how they do.
DT
:Well 2 out of 6+ responding...Carl/Doug/Dan/et al...??
:My ? arose from the idea that perhaps the guardians are their own (worst?) enemies. I have put many (many) kings together over the years & have very rarely observed them prey on each other, ditto for regal ringnecks (a super specialized-snake predator). So I surmise the general absence of the breeders observing cannabalism indicates its likely the same w/ indys.
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::Yo all, Has any guardian breeders (or others for that matter) ever experienced a guardian eating another? Not including of course getting balled up on the same food item (see trick below).
::My Getulus queen tried to eat her much smaller mate when first introduced this spring (after 4 mice she calmed down & bred..).
::Did an interesting but old trick (arent they all..) today on Ms. BTC,...She/he(?) shed Wed. & I only held her to admire her gloss...till Fri...she was very energetic.. when she ate a big DOR spiny lizard. Then today, 2 mebbe 3 mice when I realized I needed to get rid of a dead 2' feeder (f/t) Coluber that my Getulus was to eat...but no Ms. btc wouldnt touch it, so rather than waste it (Getulus in blue) & she is a glutton...I used cotton thread & tied the last mouse to the head of the Coluber...Now ms. btc is too stuffed to move...neck to cloaca is all one lump! I dont recommend this every time but 1/x per shed cycle to maximize growth.
::C&B; jg
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