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12-04-2021, 05:23 PM
#2611
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Originally Posted by plateOfFlan
Gorgeous bunch.
This reminds me - I heard somewhere that a BP with ghost/hypo will throw a blank shed no matter what the pattern on the snake is - it looks to be true here, even though this lovely girl has black pastel?
You're right, her sheds are always clean and patternless because of the ghost genes
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12-04-2021, 05:33 PM
#2612
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Originally Posted by Awesomethepossum
I'm fine-Boyfriend and I both got it. We're both vaccinated. I'm asymptomatic, but it hit him with everything it had. Goes to show how different the impact is between individuals.
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Crazy stuff, that's for sure. Hope he's better soon. I have no 'personal' experience with it & doing all I can to keep it that way.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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12-04-2021, 06:02 PM
#2613
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Took a quick picture of my Tioman Island kukri, Snickersnee. Lighting isn't great, and she's getting ready to go into shed again.
She has more growing to do, and I'm fortunate to say she's very tame.
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12-04-2021, 06:22 PM
#2614
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
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First time I've heard of a kukri. If you didn't say so I would've assumed it was a kingsnake.
Can you tell me more about her? She's beautiful.
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12-04-2021, 07:02 PM
#2615
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Originally Posted by Snagrio
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First time I've heard of a kukri. If you didn't say so I would've assumed it was a kingsnake.
Can you tell me more about her? She's beautiful.
Tioman Island is the locale where her lineage/subspecies is from, but kukris are all over Thailand. She's captive bred, only a few people in the US breed them I think. She mostly eats f/t hairless rat pups, but they can also eat eggs too.
In the wild, also frogs, toads and lizards. They have very specialized, enlarged teeth in the back of their jaw used for slicing (like a kukri knife). They use it to slice eggs open to drink from, and to..disembowel prey items and eat the organs. It's pretty brutal.
Females get about a meter long, males are smaller. Mine eats every 3-5 days. They have fast metabolisms and she's still growing, at a little over a year old. They aren't sit-and-wait predators. Nocturnal mostly, but I see mine out during the day.
Mine is extremely reluctant to bite and has never tried to, but im still careful. I wouldn't call it biting as much as slashing, though. They're non-venomous, despite their "fangs" but you don't really want to get nailed by one. There are wild imports, but captive breeding definitely mellowed them down.
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12-04-2021, 07:47 PM
#2616
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Originally Posted by Awesomethepossum
Tioman Island is the locale where her lineage/subspecies is from, but kukris are all over Thailand. She's captive bred, only a few people in the US breed them I think. She mostly eats f/t hairless rat pups, but they can also eat eggs too.
In the wild, also frogs, toads and lizards. They have very specialized, enlarged teeth in the back of their jaw used for slicing (like a kukri knife). They use it to slice eggs open to drink from, and to..disembowel prey items and eat the organs. It's pretty brutal.
Females get about a meter long, males are smaller. Mine eats every 3-5 days. They have fast metabolisms and she's still growing, at a little over a year old. They aren't sit-and-wait predators. Nocturnal mostly, but I see mine out during the day.
Mine is extremely reluctant to bite and has never tried to, but im still careful. I wouldn't call it biting as much as slashing, though. They're non-venomous, despite their "fangs" but you don't really want to get nailed by one. There are wild imports, but captive breeding definitely mellowed them down.
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Did a little digging and there's images of them eating toads from the inside out like a centipede would. Brutal indeed. Good thing they don't need to be fed like that in captivity.
She's a gorgeous little lady though, it's a wonder they aren't more popular.
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12-04-2021, 08:09 PM
#2617
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Originally Posted by Snagrio
Did a little digging and there's images of them eating toads from the inside out like a centipede would. Brutal indeed. Good thing they don't need to be fed like that in captivity.
She's a gorgeous little lady though, it's a wonder they aren't more popular.
I think the dual blade fangs turns a lot of people off
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12-04-2021, 08:20 PM
#2618
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Originally Posted by Awesomethepossum
I think the dual blade fangs turns a lot of people off
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I nearly guessed as much myself, but hognoses basically have the same thing and venom on top of that yet they're very popular (a very, very weak venom granted but it's still there).
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12-17-2021, 10:51 PM
#2619
Re: Most Recent Snake Picture!
Little male Rlt i picked up today. Feisty guy
but beautiful.
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12-18-2021, 05:04 AM
#2620
My little brother holding Potsticker.
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