Such a little weirdo...

[StormSerpent]

So tonight was feeding night for my Ball Python, Nero, and although I had some trouble starting him off, he has eaten voraciously since his first meal and tonight was no different. I have him on a 5 day feeding schedule, so tonight I did everything as typical as always, and opened the tank to feed the F/T mouse.

Now here's where it gets weird, some nights, my Ball Python likes to climb on a flexible branch that spans his cage, and he was sitting on top when I went to put in the mouse. Now before I could even place the mouse on the ground, Nero struck and coiled the mouse, while still tightly grasping onto the branch. Very Green Tree Python-esque, He swallowed the mouse, then moved to his warm hide. Who knows, maybe Nero has a little GTP blood in him .

So does anyone else have these little quirks about their snakes?

[llovelace]

and then some

[Crazy4Herps]

Maybe he does have some GTP blood... hmm, that would be an odd hybrid, a ball x GTP.

Funny story, thanks for sharing!

[Lolo76]

Delilah did that once, and I've discovered she has a quicker feeding response with that method... she loves her branch/log so much, I'd swear she was an arboreal snake! BPs are funny, aren't they?

[adrenalinejunkie]

Harold did this a few times...I thought the same thing..it was quite amusing.

[mechnut450]

i got one that likes to lay up on the tub handle point when they were little enought ot sit there and that suck was a mean one . I am glade she outgrew the perch and temperment issues. I hated it cause she would lung at me when I open the tub and I get nailed were ever the closest spot was that was there ( most thetime my gut /shirt).

[Vypyrz]

One of mine likes to swing, smack, and body slam his F/T's all over the tank before eating. Sometimes I don't know whether to clean the tank or put up "crime scene" tape...


Rob

[Ladydragon]

One of mine likes to swing, smack, and body slam his F/T's all over the tank before eating. Sometimes I don't know whether to clean the tank or put up "crime scene" tape...


Rob

thanx.. this made me laugh. I can so vividly picture the entire scenario. I do not have a bp that does that, but my ghost corn, when he was in a tank, would periodically do the "cling to his vine while constricting his mouse and then eat"..weirdo!

[joshn6805]

One of my het albinos is also a vicious eater. she will most of the time strike the rat and than take it for a dump in the water bowl, by the way this is live food, and drown it. I feel bad for every animal that has to go through simaltaneous constriction and drowning deaths.

[kazboots]

My 1500g female lunged at the rat a couple weeks ago before I could get it in the tub, so she ended up hanging from the tub constricting the rat. She didn't want to drop it so just hung there, so naturally I took a picture and called my friend into the room, and then helped her back into the tub.

One of my het albinos is also a vicious eater. she will most of the time strike the rat and than take it for a dump in the water bowl, by the way this is live food, and drown it. I feel bad for every animal that has to go through simaltaneous constriction and drowning deaths.

Can you remove the water first or would that involve risk to your appendages?