Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Alkaline » Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:15 pm

This is another one of my snakes, bred in captivity by a friend of mine :D
A little agressive, but is still a great pet :!: He is about 53cm and takes quail eggs.
Here he is :!:
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby imperial exotix » Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:19 pm

Nice one and I bet you dont have to worry about getting bit because egg eaters dont have teeth :D
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Alkaline » Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:56 pm

Hehe, no, but he still strikes. The black mouth really can make it alot freaky "er"
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby vuduman » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:05 am

Nice eggeater.Do you know what locality its from?
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Alkaline » Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:00 am

Western Cape I think
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Bushviper » Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:25 am

Unusual pattern. Would be interesting to know where it came from. How old is that one?
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Ales » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:27 am

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.
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Microlepidotus » Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:49 pm

HA ! Nice ! I must say that in the third pic, the head looks very muck like a skaapsteker !!
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Alkaline » Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:11 pm

Ya, he's a couple of months old. I think maybe 5 or 6
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Bushviper » Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:00 am

Alkaline wrote: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.
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Re: Crush, The "egg"cellent Egg eater

Postby Alkaline » Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:22 am

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