Python eats Croc!!
06 October 2005, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Sonic'
My other half has just purchased a Royal Python, hope it doesnt get as big as that one above, or indeed anything like this one below !!!! 
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...mp/snake01.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...mp/snake01.jpg
They're also generally very placid and friendly- can be buggars to feed though.
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06 October 2005, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by MJW
Some friends of my parents kept snakes, and they had an Indian Python that was about 20 feet long - they finished up giving it to a university. It was like a fecking tree trunk round the middle. They fed it on live rabbits.
They also used to let them crawl round the house which was a bit disconcerting if you were sitting on the sofa and could feel one of them slithering behind your neck !!
They also used to let them crawl round the house which was a bit disconcerting if you were sitting on the sofa and could feel one of them slithering behind your neck !!
Davgtt- A considerably smaller snake than the one that had a go at that aligator could kill, though not eat, a human mate. You wouldn't believe how strong they are!!
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06 October 2005, 03:47 PM
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NSO4, I would believe it mate, can easily imagine.... I have heard thats why they dont feed live food due to potential damage they can cause
06 October 2005, 04:44 PM
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07 October 2005, 06:01 PM
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Good thanks AJM. How's mojo?
Thinking about getting a royal python this weekend..have compltely caught the snake keeping bug!
Thinking about getting a royal python this weekend..have compltely caught the snake keeping bug!
Originally Posted by ajm
Hey Brett, how's the little fella doing now? He looks great!
07 October 2005, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ajm
They don't tend to think about the practicalities of how they are going to eat their prey when they go for the kill, they make the decision and then go for it and worry about how to eat it afterwards! They do indeed wait until the prey is dead before releasing their grip and finding the head in order to start swallowing. It is possible the alligator 'came to', after being swallowed as they can hold their breath for ages by reducing their metabolism down to virtually nothing.
The largest captive snake in the world was a female Burmese python called 'Baby'
. She was nearly 27 foot long and weighed 29 stone! Here she is with her former owner before he rehoused her at Serpent Safari in Illinois.
http://www.anapsid.org/images/louisbaby.jpg
Unfortunately, last I heard, she died of a respiratory infection, to which they are susceptible.
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07 October 2005, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by BrettC
Good thanks AJM. How's mojo?
Thinking about getting a royal python this weekend..have compltely caught the snake keeping bug!
Thinking about getting a royal python this weekend..have compltely caught the snake keeping bug!
Here she is as of 10 mins ago!
p.s. YHPM
07 October 2005, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by davegtt
nar a rotty comes at you just let it bite your hand and hold its bottom jaw, problem solved then you flick its ***** it'll soon yelp and run away
then you flick its ***** it'll soon yelp and run away
07 October 2005, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ajm
Mojo is doing great, she's completely mite clear now and in her new vivarium. She's in the middle of a shed at the moment so is moody as hell, her eyes/skin has just cleared so I expect the peel to start in the next 6-7 days.
Here she is as of 10 mins ago!
p.s. YHPM
Here she is as of 10 mins ago!
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She looks great. Any estimate of size? Coils is about to shed any day now...he hasn't got [steve Irwin on] a little bit grumpy [/steve Irwin off] though which im surprised about.
Maybe thats just the difference between a Burm and a dwarf BCI. I have kept his last shed which was complete...i guess for the non snake keepers out there it is the equivalent of your childs first tooth...
08 October 2005, 10:39 AM
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Not quite a python-keeping comment but may be of interest. I remember hearing of a tale - I thought it was in the Amazonian rain forest - of an Anaconda trying to down a helicopter.
Anyway, I think I've sourced the story :
"Colonel Rene van Lierde was piloting his helicopter over the Katanga province of the Belgian Congo. Suddenly a gigantic snake reared up as if to attack his helicopter. He lifted up and took several photos of the snake and continued his journey. His estimate of the size of the snake was about 40-50 feet, and that is the same estimation made by zoologists who later examined the photo. Even still, the largest scientifically measured snake was a 32 foot long reticulated python killed in Indonesia as the world's longest snake. Until one of these magnificent creatures is brought in, dead or alive, the Sucuriju will always be known as a cryptid."
Apparantly Anaconda can grow as large as at least 70 feet. See :
http://www.cryptozoology.com/cryptids/anaconda.php
A weird web page but a good laugh.
K.
Anyway, I think I've sourced the story :
"Colonel Rene van Lierde was piloting his helicopter over the Katanga province of the Belgian Congo. Suddenly a gigantic snake reared up as if to attack his helicopter. He lifted up and took several photos of the snake and continued his journey. His estimate of the size of the snake was about 40-50 feet, and that is the same estimation made by zoologists who later examined the photo. Even still, the largest scientifically measured snake was a 32 foot long reticulated python killed in Indonesia as the world's longest snake. Until one of these magnificent creatures is brought in, dead or alive, the Sucuriju will always be known as a cryptid."
Apparantly Anaconda can grow as large as at least 70 feet. See :
http://www.cryptozoology.com/cryptids/anaconda.php
A weird web page but a good laugh.
K.
08 October 2005, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by BrettC
AJM
She looks great. Any estimate of size? Coils is about to shed any day now...he hasn't got [steve Irwin on] a little bit grumpy [/steve Irwin off] though which im surprised about. Maybe thats just the difference between a Burm and a dwarf BCI. I have kept his last shed which was complete...i guess for the non snake keepers out there it is the equivalent of your childs first tooth...
She looks great. Any estimate of size? Coils is about to shed any day now...he hasn't got [steve Irwin on] a little bit grumpy [/steve Irwin off] though which im surprised about.
Maybe thats just the difference between a Burm and a dwarf BCI. I have kept his last shed which was complete...i guess for the non snake keepers out there it is the equivalent of your childs first tooth...That's a good sign Coils shed in one piece, especially since the mite problem. As you know, when I got Mojo she also had mites and was quite dehydrated. Her first shed was a disaster, it was like snake-druff, all cripsy and dry and I had to soak most of it off in the bath tub!
Since then they have been getting steadily better, the last one she was able to get 90% off herself, so I have high hopes for this one! I have a humidifier going in the vivarium and the RH is at about 85% which should help!
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