Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

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Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby Richard Mastenbroek » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:42 pm

The local petshop called me today and asked if I could use some older Sebra finches as food for my snakes. So I picked them up and fed them to my male Eastern Green Mamba Dendroaspis angusticeps Really amazing if you see them strike and grab a flying bird with rapid speed out of the air. A bird does not know what hits him and dies in a instance.
But the snake grabbed it rigth behind te wings of wich I could take some nice shots.

I have not best camera but I think they turned out oke.

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Re: Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby Eyelash » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:55 pm

Man that is amazing Richard...and really awesome pics aswell !

Do you usually feed them mice ?

p.s how big is the cage in the pic ?And how is cleaning it ?
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Re: Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby Marcel2992 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:55 pm

MAN that snake is beautiful!!
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Re: Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby Crash » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:38 pm

Awesome pics, And a great snake. How many finches did he eat?
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Re: Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby StephanN » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:50 pm

great photos mate
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Re: Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby jka » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:14 am

Man I really like zebra finches they are so cool.
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Re: Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby Hustler » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:01 am

That is one beautiful snake and setup!
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Re: Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) feeding on Seb

Postby Richard Mastenbroek » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:53 am

@eyelash I feed them mice, hamsters, rats, defrosted chicks and now sebrafinch my mambas are trueue garbage bins all ou trow in death or alive will be eaten :-)

THe cage is 120 x 65 x 65 cm and cleaning isn't hard at all if they take a dumb you get it out of there and deth plants parts I just leave in there.

@Crash he ate 3 finches

@ All, thanks for nice comment

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