Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

[Alkaline]

This is another one of my snakes, bred in captivity by a friend of mine
A little agressive, but is still a great pet He is about 53cm and takes quail eggs.
Here he is

[imperial exotix]

Nice one and I bet you dont have to worry about getting bit because egg eaters dont have teeth

[Alkaline]

Hehe, no, but he still strikes. The black mouth really can make it alot freaky "er"

[vuduman]

Nice eggeater.Do you know what locality its from?

[Alkaline]

Western Cape I think

[Bushviper]

Unusual pattern. Would be interesting to know where it came from. How old is that one?

[Ales]

That is such a nice egg eater,looks so much like a small adder.

First time I found an egg eater I was holding it by the tail,I knew it had no teeth but when it struck at me I still had that scared feeling and dropped it,I was kneeling so it only fell about 50cm onto soft grass.

[Microlepidotus]

HA ! Nice ! I must say that in the third pic, the head looks very muck like a skaapsteker !!

[Alkaline]

Ya, he's a couple of months old. I think maybe 5 or 6

[Bushviper]

Ya, he's a couple of months old. I think maybe 5 or 6

Somebody is being less than truthful. A captive bred Dasypeltis would never reach 50cm in a 5 or 6 months. That would take a number of years. I suspect you have been sold a wild caught animal. There is no way your friend "captive bred" and raised this snake.

The fact that he is "still aggressive" is a dead give away. A captive bred snake that has been raised to this size will no longer scale rub unless provoked.

[Alkaline]

Perhaps, but he only stikes when I move things in his tank around, and his age was a guess.