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Originally Posted by majkill
I don't wanna sound arrogant or like im pickin on you (cos i'm not) but...
This can only be if the snake comes across the dead animal within a few hours of its demise. Also any longer then that and the animal would have started to decompose, something i also think a snake would stay away from. Yes snakes may be opportunistic, but i don't think its to the extent that they will readily go for dead prey. Although i'm not denying that its entirely possibly this can happen  |
Okay then let me put it like this. You're putting a prey animal into a tank with a predator, that may or may not feel like eating. In the wild, a rat has a chance to get away. In a tank, it has no where to run. So let's say the snake strikes at the rat and misses. Now the rat KNOWS it's being hunted and attacks the snake because it's fending for its life. There is NO benefit to feeding live.
snakes CAN be switched over to prekilled or frozen. It takes time, it takes patience, and a hungry snake.
