Wait guys, let me get this right.......
in the other thread i pointed out that i dont think the scales of a BP with normal scales offer any meaningful protection against rat bites.
and that caused the whole thread to go so offtopic that the mods had to splice it, and it turned into an excrementstorm of such epic proportions that it accumulated 72 replies in just 10 hours?
how exactly did that happen?
anyway, its now its own thread about FT/pre-killed versus live.
i think a healthy BP constricts so fast and so hard that the rat has no real chance to bite. and when you notice that the BP is a bit lazy and not constricting hard enough, you take your pliers and pull the rats tail or wiggle the rat a bit and then the BP will constrict it really hard.
i think thats the defense against rat bites. thats why injuries to the snake are so rare when feeding live. they are just damn good at killing rhodents. and when one of the seniors here on the forum says he did 20000 live feedings without serious injury to a BP, i believe it.
and for scaleless BPs, i hope this will not be much different.
