Has your snake (any kind) ever fished a f/t rodent out of a bowl of water?

[EL-Ziggy]

I don’t have pictures but my experiences echo Gio’s. Most of my snakes, the boas, colubrids, and pythons, have eaten their meals after they, or I, dropped it in their water bowls.

BTW- It’s great to see you Gio! Your critters look amazing as always!!

[Gio]

I don’t have pictures but my experiences echo Gio’s. Most of my snakes, the boas, colubrids, and pythons, have eaten their meals after they, or I, dropped it in their water bowls.

BTW- It’s great to see you Gio! Your critters look amazing as always!!

Zig,,,,

I feel the same. I am really happy to see and Richard popping up here lately.

Boger has been keeping things going as a mod. Good job!

JM pops in rarely but we are in touch by text often.

This board has been running longer than any snake board I've ever joined which is pretty cool.

Unfortunately, I have no pictures of the Royal doing the same but she has as well.

All is well here and nothing new as far as new critters.

Everybody is growing still and the Royal will be 13 years old and the boa will be 12 this summer.

Apologies for the semi derail. I'm happy to see Zig and Daski and Richard.

I may have to find another photo place other than Imgur as I can't seem to post what I load there. All of these photos are old.

Again, another derail but worth it to say hello!

[Nutriaitch]

But still I think this is remarkable, because this is a DESERT snake- not many bodies of water around where they evolved.

as a current resident of their natural range, I can confirm this statement.




sorta on topic, today my BP "played with" his food unlike I've ever seen him do before.
f/t adult mouse. he attacked it with malice in his heart (like he almost always does).
squeezed him a lot longer than normal.

then drug him around his habitat. dropping him, then snooping around. pick him up and move him again.
position him into perfect eating position, then just carried and dropped him. tried bring him into his favorite hide. then dragged him back out.
at one point it even looked like he going to try to bury it like a dog would a bone.

he did this for a good 30 minutes before periscoping, taking a glance around, then eating him.

[bcr229]

My pythons and boas pretty regularly dunk prey in the water bowl during the grab/wrap phase. No biggie, just pick up the ball of snake and set it on the enclosure floor.

OTOH my rattlesnake hit a rat once and the rat managed to climb into the water bowl before expiring. Mr. Buzz Butt couldn't find it. That was not fun.