Well after wanting one of these guys for quite some time I finally picked up a male Mussurana at the Hamburg, PA reptile show this past Saturday. He weighed in at just 25g.
Sunday night was feeding night so I decided to give it a try. I offered him a small f/t pinky mouse of of hemostats and he didn't show much interest. I decided to take a little fresh shed skin from my Tx rat and wrapped the pinky in it and tried again. Within five seconds he nailed it and vigorously threw all of his coils around it, talk about a feeding response. One he uncoiled the pinky it was gone in a flash.
He's very alert and active when out of his tub and I'm excited to start handling him once he's settled in and eating regularly.
Here are a few low quality cell phone pictures.
At the show
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