Taking meal photos

[C.m.pyrrhus]

I thought I would start this thread, with the topic being snakes eating. If it catches on, might prove to have some cool photos.

Mine are a bit "bland." Nothing super cool.

First off, a Longnose and a Banded gecko.

http://img33.exs.cx/img33/4964/longeat.jpg



Here are some rattler photos.

#1. AZ Black and mouse.

http://img33.exs.cx/img33/6266/cerbeat.jpg

#2. WDB and mouse.

http://img33.exs.cx/img33/6823/wdbeat.jpg

#3. Sidewinder and Scelopurus ssp.

http://img33.exs.cx/img33/7948/windereat.jpg

[Samba]

Awesome photos! =)

[Vengeance]

My Ball......

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606FredEating1-med.JPG

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606FredEating2-med.JPG

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606FredEating3-med.JPG

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606FredEating4-med.JPG

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606FredEating5-med.JPG

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606FredEating6-med.JPG

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606FredEating7-med.JPG



My Cali King

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606DSCF0038-med.JPG

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606Weeblhead2.JPG

[dank7oo]

Great photos ... both of you.

Jason

[crazy4reptiles]

Not the greatest picture.... Our BP... with a mouse.

[jmkhets]

SWEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!pics i love em!!!

[madison.s]

can not find anything eles to feed your snakes or did you not have the money to buy it mice. Nice picture of the bp tho.

[Siretsap]

Originally posted by lizlady
can not find anything eles to feed your snakes or did you not have the money to buy it mice.

Well a longnose snake will mostly eat lizards in the wild so I doubt that one would eat mice. If his snakes are wc, then for sure the longnose will prefer a lizard to a mice.

[madison.s]

Ya having said that there are lots of people on here that have lizards and dont want to see that. And by the way the snake will eat mice.

[CDN-Cresties]

Some snakes prey upon small lizards, whats the difference between a feeder lizard and feeder mouse or rat? nothing really IMO.

[Siretsap]

If it's a wc, the snake might not want to eat mice. He lives in Arizona, the snake can very well be a wc, it's found in Arizona.

[DiamondDave]

Here's my contribution, my WD and pinkies, gone in 6 seconds.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/DedEye/Reptiles/Four_mice.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/DedEye/Reptiles/Two_mice.jpg

Great pics everyone! The whole snake eating lizards is irrelevant. That's nature folks, circle of life and all that.

[Vanan]

ever heard of a feeder leo?

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/vineeating1.jpg">

It's a fact of life. Get over it! Just cos longnoses CAN eat rodents doesn't mean it's best for them. I, for one, recommend feeding herp eaters herps occasionally. An all rodent diet IS NOT the best diet for a lot of snake species in captivity.

P.S. Apologies too all the leo people out there. The pic was meant to get a point across. BTW, the leo in the pic was raised as a feeder by yours truly.

[Siretsap]

Oh my, you in trouble now Vanan ;-) Should photoshop your image and change the color of that tail to a brownish and pass it as a banded, less comon and people seem to not mind as much. lol

[dank7oo]

It's a fact of life. Get over it! Just cos longnoses CAN eat rodents doesn't mean it's best for them. I, for one, recommend feeding herp eaters herps occasionally. An all rodent diet IS NOT the best diet for a lot of snake species in captivity.

Beat me to it Vanan. But honestly, you may keep them as pets, while some species live off of them. Similarly, many people keep MICE and RATS as pets, and the majority of snake owners feed those rodents to their snakes.

Jason

[HeatherRose]

One of my favourites...

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1288BRB-EatingBuggedEyes.jpg

[CDN-Cresties]

For some reason, feeder leos bother me. It must because they are so widely known as great pets.

[CDN-Cresties]

Here's my contribution. :D
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/511/1671feedme-med.jpg

[Katt]

I kept rats for almost as long as I had snakes. I only gave them up b/c of severe allergies. They're great pets, very sentient and aware. Certainly don't deserve to murdered and then photographed when dead and fed to a thoughtless animal.

You get over it.

[jmkhets]

do boas eat lizards?
keep the pics coming guys they are too cool!

[Vanan]

Boas of the genus Candoia eat lizards. Many Epicrates have been known to eat lizards when juveniles.

[Cruciform]

Those are some great pics. That crestie photo would be even better without the jpeg artifacting. It's sweet!

On the feeding-what-to-whom comments, I don't really get why someone would read the topic, which is pretty straightforward, come into the thread and then say "I don't want to see that."

It should be obvious to most members that there is a great variety of animals kept by their peers, and that the diet of these animals varies widely.

You shouldn't be surprised to find mice, rats, eggs, chicks, lizards, worms, bugs, arachnids, gerbils, hamsters, rabbits, pigs, goats, and even snakes on the menu depending on the species.

If any of those things being offered up as food offend you, there are lots of other threads that can inform and entertain. Meanwhile, there are others who find the eating habits of these fascinating animals very interesting.

Cheers,
Mike

[jmkhets]

what about a bci under a foot long?

[~Suntiger~]

Here's my blood python, Hades:

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3582snakes_044-med.jpg

And to add an invert into the mix, my goliath:

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3582BM_rp4-med.jpg

[CDN-Cresties]

That goliath pic is awesome :thumbsup:

[dank7oo]

What is the goliath eating? A pinky?

Jason

[~Suntiger~]

He's eating a rat pup, about 2 days old if I remember correctly...

[dank7oo]

Oooo - fanciness :)

Jason

[meow_mix450]

suntiger i lvoe that spider eating a pinky just awesome! Great thread

Meow

[meow_mix450]

Heres mine
http://www.pricenetwork.ca/gallery/albums/userpics/10057/normal_cam.JPG
http://www.pricenetwork.ca/gallery/albums/userpics/10057/normal_cham.JPG

Meow

[capsicum]

My little girl Anya with her mouse (she takes anywhere from 3-5 per feeding, hasn't taken any small rats, only crawlers and small hoppers).

Gotta love the pink on her nose :D Never noticed it until this pic, lol (she's snippy, don't want my face bitten :p )

TK

[Bartman]

My ball munching a rat in shed
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/BartmanReptiles/eatinginshed4.jpg
My monitor just catching a cricket
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/BartmanReptiles/greatshot.jpg
My two baby corns eating side by side
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/BartmanReptiles/eatingsidebyside2.jpg
And who said we cant have vegan feeding pics :p

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/BartmanReptiles/handfeedingcheech3.jpg

[Vanan]

And who said we cant have vegan feeding pics

Awesome! :D lol! Is that a chuckwalla Adam?

[Bartman]

No a mali uromastyx. Dont have him anymore but I had his pic stored :D

[CDN-Cresties]

Now meow_mix450, no need to show off :p Killer pics!

[Vengeance]

Heres another one I forgot to add

My Leaf Turtle chomping down on a worm

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606WORMS-med.JPG

This one kinda fits....

It's when a cricket outsmarted my turtle

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606cricket-med.JPG

[concept3]

lol vengeance, love the last one, great pics guys and gals, meow that shot of your cham is awsome

[daver676]

Such a cool thread. Great photos everyone! Here is a pic of Sophia when she was still a runt.

[jjnnbns]

A shot of my male JCP taking down a mouse...

http://bitz.net/~ato/Pictures/Brent/Clyde%20head%20eating.jpg

[C.m.pyrrhus]

Nice, nice, nice. Just what I was hoping to see. Great photos from all.

About that Longnose snake. It is a WC snake, and deserves to have native meals. Plus, all it will take. But, it is healthy, living fine and doing just great. Many other species, including the sidwinders I have at home, will be nearly stuck on a lizard only diet, like the vine snake eating the leo.

Here is a photo of one of one my boas. This time with a nice, lizard friendly F/T rat. :D Really nice way to show the lacking of pattern on his sides. To cool.

http://img16.exs.cx/img16/549/baoeat.jpg

[Linds]

I don't have too many feeding pics, but these ones are some of the more memorable ones :p

Inside her meal...
<img src="http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/507/22tasha_intofood.jpg">

Mmmmm plastic... :flick:
<img src="http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/507/22bad_darky.jpg">

Wandering a little off-topic...
<img src="http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/503/22tortieeatingbigmouth-med.jpg">
<img src="http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/503/22tortieeating2.jpg">

[~Suntiger~]

Great photos everybody! I love that first one especially, Linds!

[Samba]

Awesome photos... I plan on adding some of my own tomorrow...

As for the issue of what to feed... I think that animals deserve their natural prey... and if they prefer it to commercially available mice and rats, why not? Great thread, guys! =)

[Linds]

Originally posted by Vanan
An all rodent diet IS NOT the best diet for a lot of snake species in captivity.


Exactly. By forcing them to conform to a different diet, they can suffer from many types of disease, ultimately leading to an untimely death. I personally prefer the convenience of feeding rodents, so for now, all my snakes will only be of the kind that can do well on a rodent diet.

Originally posted by ~Suntiger~
I love that first one especially, Linds!

Thanks! :D

[daver676]

Linds,

How did the snake end up munching on a grocery bag?

[DragnDrop]

I've got one to add to the list.

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/502/321Sasha_eating-med.jpg

(Apologies in advance to the phasmid keepers here)

[Linds]

daver676,
Typical of STP, he has an excellent feeding reflex and there was rodent in the air...:flick: He full constricted, and by the time the camera got to me he was already releasing and attempting to swallow the bag :rolleyes:

[daver676]

Originally posted by Linds
daver676,
Typical of STP, he has an excellent feeding reflex and there was rodent in the air...:flick: He full constricted, and by the time the camera got to me he was already releasing and attempting to swallow the bag :rolleyes:

LOL!! Wish my bp fed like that!