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My "Rare" Venomous Snakes

RDLinATL said:
Beautiful snakes. I had to go watch a few of your videos after seeing this thread. I thoroughly enjoyed your video on tease feeding over force feeding. How long would you typically attempt tease feeding over force feeding? Like x amount of minutes over x amount of days.
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Thanks for watching mate.

This will depend on the animal really. If the animal eventually eats via tease feeding, I will try it for half an hour and if it doesn't work, I will wait a week and try again assuming that the animal has enough body weight to wait a week. I only do force feeding if the animal refuses to feed and is about to perish.
 
Jackpot!:

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I also shot a video, which I will upload next week...
 
NTReptiles said:
That is awesome, Yasin! I hope for the best and you get a bunch of baby adders :p
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Thank you :

Today's pictures from the collection:

Acanthophis woolfi female post shed:

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Acanthophis antarcticus male:

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Acanthophis hawkei female with a xxl mouse:

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Scale detailed while swallowing, notice the skin in between the scales:

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Head shot:

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Python regius female (Champagne Super Fire):

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Python regius male (Leopard pied):

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Boulengerina male, the sand worm:

Last but not the least! Naja kaouthia female (Orange Pastel, T+Albino, highlite):

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I love the Naja naja style hood mark. As she ages, she will end up orange with purple highlights.
 
Some ball pythons got in between, I hate the no edit rule :p
 
LauraB said:
Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for posting.
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Thanks :).

Here is a female Monocled Cobra I picked up. She is just an amazing triple mutation morph. Hopefully I will get a Leucistic male for her:

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Although I've viewed this thread numerous times since last year when you originally posted, I've not really responded. I'd be dead in a heartbeat if I owned hots, but your photography skills are awesome. The macro scale shots and that female Monocled are just stunning.
 
LauraB said:
Although I've viewed this thread numerous times since last year when you originally posted, I've not really responded. I'd be dead in a heartbeat if I owned hots, but your photography skills are awesome. The macro scale shots and that female Monocled are just stunning.
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Thank you. I love photographing my animals, it is their natural beauty and the quality of my camera/lenses more than my photographing skills. ;)
 
Very nice collection. I used to keep several hots. I only keep one now, a cottonmouth.
 
ssshane said:
Very nice collection. I used to keep several hots. I only keep one now, a cottonmouth.
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Thanks ssshane. Cottonmouths are cool and there are even Leucistic cottonmouths available, which look absolutely stunning.
 
I just love how this girl looks, especially the partial monocle, she is amazing:

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She is not afraid to charge at me either the little bugger :D.
 
More from today's feeding:

Crotalus unicolor ready to strike at my face. This species is really an amazing looking example of the Crotalus genus.

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The male Sydney A.antarcticus is getting to be very beautiful and he can easily take hopper size mice. He is also a very "enthusiastic" feeder. Female is still being tease fed and has no interest in food until she is hit on the head with it for 5 minutes. I hope she will catch up soon.

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Mobile jaw of a cobra:

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Beautiful side view:

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Here is my most probably pregnant girl:

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And here is the male Sydney red feeding on a hopper:

 
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