ducatiman: my man eater (2. Dez 2007 16:22)

my royal python eating a rat,hes about 10 years old now,

Purifier: (2. Dez 2007 16:29)

Nice pics! How long live a snake like that? Do you give her dead rats or alive?

ducatiman: (2. Dez 2007 16:35)

the can live upto 25 years in the right conditions, i only feed the python deads rats ,much kinder and less stressful for both the snake and the rat,a live rat often cause bad wounds to the snake whilst trying to defend itself

Purifier: (2. Dez 2007 16:42)

Oh okay....25 years. Not bad :)
Yeah thats right, the rat would do anything that she wont be eaten ^^
How do you kill the rats? I mean crickets or so for the ants its easy to kill. You need only hot water.
But with rats? How do you handle this?

ducatiman: (2. Dez 2007 16:47)

well there are two ways,you can hit them on the head hard which i have never done or even tried to do,or you can buy dead rats from the reptile shop frozen (i always do this),then you defrost them in bucket of hot water,the snake seems fine with dead rats,sometimes you have to move the rat about a bit to make it look like its alive ,then the python will strike,but watch your hand cause they will try and bite you and pull you in,its happend to me and it hurts lol

Purifier: (2. Dez 2007 16:57)

:lol: yeah, could imagine that a bite hurts much ^^
And crush a head of an rat....i could not do this, too. Its a little bit to brutal for me ;)
But the frozen way is a good and human way i believe.

JimmyVe: (2. Dez 2007 17:12)

Very nice pet you have got there ducatiman, nice ! (great pictures to)

But the frozen way is a good and human way i believe.
That is true, but still someone has to kill the rat before it gets frozen in. (not a job for me ;) )

ducatiman: (2. Dez 2007 17:26)

yep jimmyVe your right,i would not like to do it but i would if i had too,rather someone else than me :wink:

SteveUK28: (2. Dez 2007 17:53)

ohhh nice pic ducatiman.. My sister has a snake the same.. not as old as yours but still eats rats.. Very friendly too they are always taking it out.. call it buffy lol

Messorus: (4. Dez 2007 20:51)

Is this Python regius, right? I can´t remember the names, I know, than there is Boa python too, Boa constrictoris. Is this Boa or Python? We had this snake, Boa, when I was about 4, I can remember, like we get him, and I had put him on my neck, and he started screwing me :lol: :lol: :D
After one minute my head was red like a potato and it started to spinning my head too :D:D But after he stopped that. In his 2 years he was about 270cm long and he had about 15kgs... It was really ,,fun" with him, when he was in ,,mating season", he had muffled around limb in his terarium and he strong stringged his body, and he tent his terrarium!