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Old 05-27-03, 09:25 AM   #1
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New Coral

I love these guys but they are so hard to keep alive. Picked him up from the nature center while camping.




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Why are they hard to keep alive? A nature center let you take it? They must be way different then the ones around here. I think you would have a hard time taking a pebble let alone an animal. Those are gorgous snakes! What is their temperment like?
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They stress out very easily and are ophidiophages. I get alot of snakes from Nature Centers. This one actually came from the Nature Center at a State Park! He was caught in the ladies restroom at the park lol I traded them a little Scarlet King for him.
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I am sorry but what is a ophidiophage? Did you just make that word up? That is odd because you think of them in the same way as other more commanly kept colubrids like Kings and milks that are bullet proof. That is really strange. Ladies restroom? Well at least it is a civilized snake. It would be funny if it was actually female!
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It is not a colubrid, it is an elapid. Ophidiophage is a reptile eater.
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Specifically snakes, the root of that being the greek word ophis, meaning snake.

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Hey B.W.
Nice coral.

What are you feeding it, native snakes? If so does your native liscence cover you for that. It would be nice to feed them things other than non native kings and rat snakes. It can get expensive when your breeding supply runs out.
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The corals here in TX tend to prefer ground snakes, earth snakes, stuff that is fossorial. Usually they will shy away from other things, especially species that musk a lot like water snakes. A friend of mine uses 'rejects' from a local corn breeder.

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Oh an Elaphid like a Cobra. Sorry not my most knowlegable area. So they only eat other reptiles. Can you scent mice on toads or snakes to get them to eat it? Probably not or you would have done it.
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You CAN get them on scented pinks sometimes, but I prefer to use a natural menu when possible. This one has been in captivity for about 5 moths and living on skinks.
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Beautiful snake BWSmith... Have fun with her . Be careful too! .
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Thanks again for educating the uneducated BW and doing it nicely.
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I like to use the natural menu to but I do not have the native non ven liscence so how does feeding them there native food come into play with the laws. I have had snakes that would eat nothing but green anoles and every time I brought one home to feed, I was breaking the law. All I am wanting to do is feed my legal reptiles the food they naturally eat and I feel like a criminal if I feed it a ground snake. I try to stay as legal as possable but it pi##es me off when it is legal to do things such as your timber pick but against the law for me to feed my reptiles natural food.
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I am allowed to keep 2 of each species (call me Noah lol). Plus there is no limit to the number in the freezer
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So are you saying that it is not illegal to keep frozen native reptiles.
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