girth size

I saw that news article, from the details no one is really sure what happened to those poor guys!! I mean, the snake's head was gone....which obviously could have been a post-mortum thing, but it seemed to have the experts pretty baffled!

I wondered about that picture at the time too. No way that snake swallowed a live gator.

I must have read a different article, the one I read stated it ate the alligator that was too big and when digestion started gases built up and caused the gator to die and popped open from the heat.

Well guy's I live 10 mile's from the everglades , the media down here blew that story up. I read a couple different theorie's one the burm ate the gator then was so slow to get to a safe spot and or hide that it was attacked by another gator and that explain's the head missing .Another explanation was the gator's nerve's were tearing away at the burm's stomach with it's claw's .the pic's clearly show the gator inside the python

ya well the one that i was talking about on the news the gater was dead. There is not way that a snake would have swallowed a live gator. No way he would even get it close to eaten with him being alive

LOL Adam, only if it was the world's dumbest gator! Those are top predators aren't they? Don't think they get taken down live a lot other than if dear ole Steve Irwin is wandering about with a camera crew! LOL I've always figured that story was the typical media junk that one sees so much lately.

As far as rat pups. I have a bunch of them right now in my rat breeding group. They are in no way able to be a problem for a ball python of appropriate size. They are little, basically defenseless and quite yummy as far as Malachi is indicating. They are still nursing at that stage and until they get close to weaning at around 3.5 to 4 weeks of age they aren't even yet eating the dam's regular rat food yet. My pups generally seem to start leaving the nest and trying mum's food around 2.5 to 3 weeks but still continue to nurse as well till I remove the mother (who by then is happy to go and basically sick to death of the little leeches!).


~~Jo~~

I judge my snake's prey on their girth. I am not using mice at all; then again, I breed rats and am able to feed "custom sized" rats that I euthanize at the right size, hehe. I think that rats/mice can't generally be judged and compared on temperament; I have had mice that'd LEAP into the air like they were spring loaded!! Now I just feed only rats; much easier and smells less bad.