Those pics are great! Our Red-Tail,Hades,likes to "play" with his food,too,only he does really weird things like constricting the (f/t) rat and then putting it in his water. Since his water is pretty cool we usually have to get it back out and warm it up again. THEN he'll take the dang thing. Or he won't even constrict it and instead will drag it around with him to different places in the tank until he finds a suitable spot to constrict it. Odd. But I love him!