Why would you want to do that?:? Like sick said, 19 dollars is alot for a feeder, and snakes are lithe and muscular animals-I'm sure it could do damage to your T in the right circumstances. What is your reasoning for feeding the snake? If it is just for the thrill of watching a fight and saying 'I fed my T a snake' you are doing it for all the wrong reasons.
well not really for fighting but im just curious about it. i want to see if the nutrients that a snake has is good for big Ts and i want to observe my T's behavior after it eats a snake. also im not satisfied with roaches that's why im experimenting for the best feeder. also i can afford 19 bucks once in a while. My plan is to feed my Ts mice, lizard chicks, or snake when im breeding them to make sure they are well fed to have a good egg productions.
actually i've heard that feeding verts to inverts for an extended period of time can be detrimental to their health...the large amounts of calcium present in vertibrates can cause molting problems and things of that nature...a treat every now and again is fine but using it as a staple of their diet is supposed to be bad news...
Snakes are not invertebrates.
Woah.....kind of harsh there.
Amen to that. Why the h*ll would you do a thing like that? You say your looking in to new diets and want to know how a snake will influence your T? :wall: Hey, that give me an idea. Wanna come over and help me on my experiment to seen how human nutrients influence my friends anaconda?
not really thats why i posted this tread to ask people if i have to prekilled the snake before i feed it and to know any information regarding to this topic. dint you read my question ? Also i thought that some big tarantula need to eat snake as part of their natural diet because i saw it in national geographic channel that some sp. of tarantula eat snakes in their natural habitat. Plus your hope of my precious T being killed by a snake is never going to happen because im going to prekilled the snake or injured it so badly that it can only move a bit for my t to see it. ofcourse if only i decided to feed my T a snake.
but aren't most of these documentaries in the most part staged and even somewhat exagerated to capture the publics' interest in it?
wow this is so interesting, i will try to feed my T a prekilled snake. I forgot that i have a friend that breeds snakes I'm just gonna ask him to sell me the cheapest snake he haveIts a strange world we live in when theres starving children somewhere out there, but a pet spider gets a $19 dollar meal. In fact Im eating a .59 cent ramon noodles for dinner.
Although I have fed snakes to spiders before, and I dont feal that I'm a "sicko". Here's a T. apophysis eating a california king baby. I hatched the snake myself, and it never did well. In fact it was just about dead when I fed it to the spider.
Later, Tom
since pet stores sells wc snakes, i want to avoid parasite. Thanks for the pic Philth i really appreciate it.