two headed hognose
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coura;3452582; said:
You are making a lot of uneducated, baseless assumptions there, I take it you have little experience with snakes. I have had friends that kept snakes alive for years via force feeding. Hognose snakes are also difficult to get feeding when young. The snake is likely 110% healthy and will survive just fine with the proper care. This is not a snake that someone who is worried about "customer satisfaction" will buy, its only for very experienced keepers, not someone looking for a pet.
A genetic abnormality like that can NOT be bred out, it happens in the egg and is not a matter of genetics. The snake is worthless as a breeder so the 20k is insane. If you were really that concerned about internal issues a $50 exam and xray at the vet will show you the digestive track and its routing.
Actualy they should do that before selling the snake01C5Vert;3454058; said:You are making a lot of uneducated, baseless assumptions there, I take it you have little experience with snakes.
I have some good level of expertize with snakes, never kept one myself as mom wouldnt allow it in a million years but I do have several friends that keep snakes and Im the main sorce of husbandry tecniques they follow and all of the reps are triving, some even bred last year, at least I do better then most zoos here do
I have had friends that kept snakes alive for years via force feeding. Hognose snakes are also difficult to get feeding when young.
Force feeding its a tool in the resolucion of a problem, not its solucion. And lack of apetite in reptiles is a simptom, not a "desiase". Any food refusal deserves a deep reserch in the husbandry used to see whats wrong. However in this snake the problem may not be the care given but the snake itself. Very bad purshase untill it has fed by itself at least once and pooped with no probs. And the fact that baby hognouses are bad feeders by nature to begin with, wich increses the likelyness of death makes it even more risky. You dont even know if its even possible to force feed, wich of the heads will eat, will it recover from the stress of being forced to eat, etc.
The snake is likely 110% healthy and will survive just fine with the proper care.
Lets hope so, that is my wish
This is not a snake that someone who is worried about "customer satisfaction" will buy, its only for very experienced keepers, not someone looking for a pet.
True, or someone that doesant know were to spend money
A genetic abnormality like that can NOT be bred out, it happens in the egg and is not a matter of genetics. The snake is worthless as a breeder so the 20k is insane.
So true
If you were really that concerned about internal issues a $50 exam and xray at the vet will show you the digestive track and its routing.
i can do one better. A two bodied western diamondback:
http://www.jaxherp.com/images/rattlesnake/rattlesnake.htm
http://www.jaxherp.com/images/rattlesnake/rattlesnake.htm
