Cannibalism in baby Whitelipped tree vipers

ugo · 11-20-11, 02:11 AM

The story went on.....

I had several other babies to care and given either my present loss of space and the fact the babies (individually kept) didn't start feeding, i kept the 5 whitelipped babies all together, offering them every week plenty of food (pinkies). But that had no results for about 3 months!
I was wrong!
A day 1 of the babies started feeding......on 1 of his brothers!
I was puzzled, but at last i thought better having an healthy 1 than 2 bad babies, and left the cannibal going on.
After that the babies were kept back individually, and about 1 month later each one started to accept pinkies, and now they go very well.
The other so long time for starting feeding i experienced was with my 'Aru' Condros : reluctant (baby) feeders started feeding after full 5 months after birth!
The worst af all is that Whitelipped were bred....to have a food source for my kings! I understand Ur criticism!
sorry for the pics, i donno why they come as thumbnails.

TeaNinja · 11-20-11, 02:17 AM

jeeze, i prolly would have tried to make it regurge its brother lol. that's crazy. i wonder if it killed the other snake before it ate it.

alessia55 · 11-20-11, 07:14 AM

That's crazy!

infernalis · 11-20-11, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by TeaNinja

jeeze, i prolly would have tried to make it regurge its brother lol. that's crazy. i wonder if it killed the other snake before it ate it.

they are venemous..

KORBIN5895 · 11-20-11, 07:38 AM

Wait a minute. You bred poisonous (snicker) snakes to feeds king snake? I know nothing about kings but that seems like a bad idea. Are kings immune to poison ( snicker)?

infernalis · 11-20-11, 07:48 AM

I believe I read somewhere that baby rattlesnakes are a delicacy to Kings.

So they must be immune to venom, Since rattlesnakes are vipers.

BlindOne · 11-20-11, 07:55 AM

Does he mean King Cobras? That would make a bit more sense

jdavy · 11-20-11, 08:22 AM

King snakes recieved their name in large part due to the fact that they eat other snakes and are immune to the venom of the venomous snakes of their area (corals, rattlers, etc). Yep, they're immune.

KORBIN5895 · 11-20-11, 09:20 AM

Hmmmm. Well I realized they ate other snakes but I didn't realize they were immune to venom.

stephanbakir · 11-20-11, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by BlindOne

Does he mean King Cobras? That would make a bit more sense

I agree with Blind one, its prolly a king cobra.
The one I owned was a pain to feed, we had to get a corn snake, feed it 2-3 mice then kill it, and force feed it another 2-3 mice then feed it to the cobra.
He refused anything but snakes.

KORBIN5895 · 11-20-11, 10:44 AM

Well that sounds expensive.

stephanbakir · 11-20-11, 10:50 AM

It would have been, but I had a friend at the time who bred corns large scale and I got anything he couldn't sell for cheap, and I bred the mice myself.

infernalis · 11-20-11, 11:02 AM

when my Black racer was a baby, all he would eat was lizards.

I had to keep buying Anoles at the pet store.

Thankfully, he's a rodent eater now.

TeaNinja · 11-21-11, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by infernalis

they are venemous..

oh..then nevermind lol. didnt even pay attention to the fact that it was a viper.

Will0W783 · 11-21-11, 07:48 AM

Wow, remind me never to house vipers together, lol. I hadn't ever heard of arboreal vipers being cannibalistic, but then again they are very opportunistic feeders. They are known to eat lizards, frogs, birds, rodents...anything that scampers or flies by their roosting spot. So I guess another snake isn't much more of a stretch beyond lizards.