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Feeder snakes for coral snake??
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by Trevor on January 26, 2009
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Does anyone know a website i can buy feeder snakes live or frozen? any help will be greatly appreciated.
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by puffadder7 on January 26, 2009
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i have already checked for feeders for my kraits, and there is no place that sells frozen, your best bet is to buy live and freeze, or just ask around for some frozen feeders, john zegel 'cro' has some baby copperheads he might sell you, he may reply, arin
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by Buzztail1 on January 26, 2009
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Trevor,
What you are planning to feed them to has a great bearing on the responses you will get.
For instance, if you are planning on feeding a young Coral Snake, baby Ball Pythons will not do you much good.
On the other hand, if you are trying to feed a young King Cobra, baby Corn Snakes will not be much help.
Please elaborate so that we can correctly direct your searching.
R/
Karl
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by AquaHerp on January 26, 2009
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Best bet is to breed your own supply.
The House snakes (Lamprophis) are a good stock.
I have thought seriously about doing this to supply others as well. We currently house a number of corals and natural food is a tough one.
DH
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by Cro on January 26, 2009
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Trevor, just how big is the Coral Snake you are trying to feed ? That can be a big factor in finding food for it.
If it is small or medium sized, you might find someone in South Florida who is still able to collect ground skinks, or anoles, or geckos, even in the middle of winter. All of those are possible good food items.
I had a really big, really old female Coral Snake that would eat new born Copperheads, and not much else. I stocked up on them for her, but she eventually died of old age. So, I still have some frozen baby Copperheads available, however, they would only work for a very, very large Coral Snake.
When the sun comes out here in North Georgia, I am still finding anole lizards out basking even in January. Perhaps you could find some lizards out were you live, if you look around log piles or rock piles, or along rock walls.
Soon it will be warm enough in South Georgia to start finding small snakes by raking through the leaf litter and flipping tin and junk. Perhaps you can find food that way.
Best Regards
John Z
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by Trevor on January 29, 2009
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The coral I have is 19" and it eats ground skinks,blutail skinks and very small fence lizards. I was just wanting to vary its diet. Ive fed it a few fresh dead snakes ive found on the road (garters, ribbons,grass snakes. Thanks for all the advise sofar
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