Xenopeltis Unicolor Feeding Video!

[ShamelessAardvark]

As promised! I finally got a chance to film this event.



Enjoy!

[dr del]

She's gorgeous,

I had heard they were fast swallowers but I had no idea it was that quick!

Thanks for sharing.


dr del

[DooLittle]

Wow, she just horked that thing right down! Your cat is cute too!

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[rabernet]

Where did you get her? I read that they are very hard to keep, and many die in captivity and that there are not many captive bred animals available due to the stress.

They're an animal that should not be handled much at all to minimize stress. Is this correct?

[ShamelessAardvark]

Where did you get her? I read that they are very hard to keep, and many die in captivity and that there are not many captive bred animals available due to the stress.

They're an animal that should not be handled much at all to minimize stress. Is this correct?

I got her from a snake-keeping friend of mine (well, she's the only snake-keeping friend I have! lol) who lives in another town neighboring mine. She originally rescued the snake from a local petstore. The snake was being kept with several other sunbeams, varying in size, and all very dry. She picked this one because it was the healthiest looking, so she took it home and fixed it up.

The only difficult thing about them is humidity. If they're too dry, they'll die within a week, so humidity is an absolute must. I keep my sunbeam at 90-100% humidity at all times. They also like cooler temperatures, but seem to thrive just fine on an 85-90F variant like a ball python, the sunbeam will just spend a little more time on the cool side.

Most, if not all sunbeams really don't like being handled, mainly because 9 out of 10 sunbeams you see are wild-caught. I don't think I've ever heard of one biting, but I hear they have the worst musk in the snake world, and I'm not exactly tempted to test that myself, lol. But my particular sunbeam seems to deal with being handled just fine, I just hardly take her out. If I want to get pictures of her or something, I'll take her entire tub with me to where ever it is I'm going, that way if she gets too stressed, she goes straight back in her home where she can burrow away.

So all in all, if you've done your research, they're not that difficult to keep. I think I lucked out on my particular X. Unicolor, because she's not that picky, nor is she very skittish.