day 0 pics in the incubator.
day 0 pics in the incubator.
the lady that owns the male monitor is a professional, she has her own rodent and insect breeding colonies. i get feeders as part of our deal. i try to feed primarily invertebrates, like giant malaysian freshwater shrimp, quail eggs, and tropical roaches but she will pound mice like nobody's business and that's what helps keep her weight and fat reserves up for breeding.
Something about a monitor going ham on a rat just cracks me up, idk what it is lol
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you should see them eat live crayfish, or whole giant shrimp. it's like godzilla face fucking mothra. pieces of legs and shell and guts all over the place.
there are some videos of this guy that trains minks to hunt mice. he got the idea to try it with monitor lizards and has had pretty good success. he started with a young argus monitor, which are very, very, very food oriented. he's got a lot of videos out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqOh8uQ5Tg0&t=605s
New addition!
Honduran milksnake.
getting settled in:
getting settled in:
Pretty noodle.
I'm still trying to figure out how a corn snake (similar colors to yours) managed to get into our apartment and hide a few years ago. Drove our cats insane and scared the shit out of Astylla till I could catch and release it
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The crew
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birdddsssss! is that first one a pionus? i had a couple back in the 90's. awesome little guys.
@melena man houses and apartments are easy to get into for snakes. i've removed so many from people's homes over the years. places just aren't enclosed like people think they are.
and i've seen all kinds of exotics, pretty much anywhere i've lived. first spring i was in oklahoma, i found a young savannah monitor lizard still barely alive after it had been run over in front of the hospital i worked. in the not quite three years i was there, i found three ball pythons on the road. my carpet python was one someone found in their yard in Fresno.
a cornsnake finding its way inside not so crazy. at least you're not in florida, so cobras and gaboon vipers are less likely lol.
fuuucking hell with the doubles this weekend.
Reason I thought it was odd was being on an upper floor and the stairs have gaps, so he must have worked his way up a pipe and vent. Was cute but he wouldn't have survived with three cats hunting him
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corns are adept climbers and burrowers. they're going to follow the scent of food, mice, baby birds, house geckos, etc wherever that takes them.
My corgi Ein
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annnd the new milksnake drilled two pinks w/o any prompting whatsoever. good feeding response. he may be squirmy but he ain't shy at all.