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Old 03-08-04, 12:51 PM   #16
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well it seemed like you jumped on the defence right away... but it doesn't really matter to me. i know you are a good keeper man. i dont have any problem with how you keep animals. and what i said about the "rule" i said thats what i heard. no one is one to say how another should keep an animal.

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Old 03-08-04, 01:02 PM   #17
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So I fed my king snake a small rat last night...he had some trouble with it so i am gonna not feed him such big things any more. Once he got it down it down he was looking for more tho...
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Old 03-08-04, 06:09 PM   #18
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Lovely snake! How long is it?
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What i heard is, the general "rule" is not to feed the snake anything bigger than its thickest part. maybe thats why the carpet grew 4' in a year?
That's more or less a myth. We feed all our snakes prey items that happen to be larger than the thickest part of the snake, and they grow like weeds and have never had any trouble getting the prey item down.
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Old 03-08-04, 06:58 PM   #20
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Old 03-09-04, 09:11 PM   #21
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Damn, thats a huge rat! I am not a coloubrid person but I always thought they took smaller meals then what I am used to, Boids. I too thought the prey item should be equal in girth to the largest part on the snakes body for coloubrids. Meh.
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