Vik eats his first live mouse (video)

Hi everyone

Here's a video I made dedicated to my first bp, Viktor. Due to all the great advice I've gotten on this forum, everything has been going fantastic lately and we've been getting along perfectly.

I did some super slow mo shots of the strike. Parts of the video were shot at different times. Before I get mauled on husbandry comments :) I'd like to point out a few things - the pastic temp gauge came with the tank has since been removed (on his first tank cleaning) and his slightly incomplete shed has also come and gone. Just want you all to know I'm taking care of him :D I removed his water dish just for this feeding.

Shots were done on a DVX100B with stock lens. No color correction. A bit dark in the beginning, but it gets better.

wmv - 21MB

Where did you get that awesome hide??

cool vid. i like slow-er part.

personally I am not a fan of live feeding


but I am really glad you and Vik are enjoying each other :carrot:

Lewdogg3 - I got the hide here
Cheap (the small one), and guaranteed identical!

Thanks for watching. I wasn't a big fan of live feeding (I had never done it before) but yesterday I had the urge. It is pretty gruesome.

That thread I posted before about Vik hating me was the greatest thread I've ever posted on any forum. Since then, nearly "next day" from that thread, things between us got exponentially better. What a difference now!

I was going to re-post my grattitude in that thread but I didn't want to whip a dead horse.

that's awesome :sunny:


I love this forum too :rockon:

Thanks! im definetly going to have to get me 2 of those, i like them, i think ill have to get the medium ones though. Thanks



Great video by the way... it was awesome. I have only ever live fed, i think its alot of fun to watch, its even better when i have friends over on feeding day and they freak out when Miss Swann attacks the rat haha

its great

Awesome video man. I to only live feed, all the nasty stories I read about frozen will make me never do it. Plus I would think the snake prefers life. Great video.

Lewdogg3 - I love the hides. Initially I bought a medium one but it was too big for my guy (he's only 4 months old) so I grabbed a couple of small ones. I really like them. Before I was using a couple of pepsi 12 pack long cutouts. Those worked well too.

Thanks everyone for your comments about the video.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Awesome video man. I to only live feed, all the nasty stories I read about frozen will make me never do it. Plus I would think the snake prefers life. Great video.

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This is my first time live feeding and I don't think I'll ever go back. I could tell Vik was like "wtf?" the way he hung on to it for awhile and looked at it before he devoured it. It was totally new to him. If he ever gets bitten I might reconsider.

I have a petstore like 300 feet from my apartment now too. I didn't know until yesterday that they had mice. :rockon:

I have to drive 25 min to the ONLY pet store in my town that has live feed mice, but I do have a certified herp vet about half a mile from my house, so its a nice trade off. Max sits there and looks at his food too after he kills it. sometimes he will rest his head on it, not sure what hes thinking or doing on that one? lol, I have only live fed him twice, only have had him for 2 weeks, last time he attacked from his hide and he def made it clear that it was his kill and made sure no one was there to claim it before he dragged it back into his hide to eat it.


But this video is sick man! awesome work! and that slow motion was incredable, even then hes still a blur!! I will def be downloading this video when I get home and saving it.

i only feed live as well, i need to make a video that was pretty tight. nice setup

Here's a video of just the strike in different types of slow motion (frame by frame, etc). It's 30 seconds long and weighs 5MB - I tried to keep the quality up.
slo-mo

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Originally Posted by Quadrophenia

Here's a video of just the strike in different types of slow motion (frame by frame, etc). It's 30 seconds long and weighs 5MB - I tried to keep the quality up.
slo-mo

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is that you screaming in the background? if so.......that's pretty funny :D

:D Nah, it's from a wav I had laying around from the PC game "Kingpin."