Episode #1082 Mr. Sawscale Munching and Goodbye Miss Coral Cobra

Keeping venomous reptiles is a relentless hobby that requires proper training and a lot of experience. A simple mistake can be the difference between life and death. Remember that the most poisonous snake in the world is the one that just bit you. There are no venomous snakes with training wheels just for the sake of it. If you see that Viper Keeper handles snakes in a certain way, it doesn't mean you should try it too. One of my snakes just decided that he is no longer good snakes. This is a wild caught, uh Lucer Gaster, the next guy we've been with. working on this since it arrived in April 2017 now the female is here and the female ate Al lives one Well buddy you're really trying now hands don't pay attention to my hands the female is now taking out her s she will be happy to grab him if he doesn't need it your problem must be us as guardians uh uh we're creating these inept snakes easy easy yeah yeah yeah look at him you know he definitely wants it because he's a pretty shy guy and it's not like he's trying to starve them, it's I just go through this every time I try to feed them.

Andor, the girl takes it off, you understand, he's actually a, you know, quite gentle. scale because you know it's a scale that you know can just be erased, disgusting creatures, uh, uh, in general, especially wild ones, uh, you know, my captive-born ones usually don't open up and they won't see the scale, but uh , that of the wild cat. certainly, you can make a big fuss, come on buddy, you can figure this out. I believe in you, you already ate, so stay there and don't be a pain in the ass. Now these guys, since they eat live, they only feed every other week, um, idiot, I didn't kill the mouse here, I did, which I probably think is more humane than theirs after they get bitten, it definitely has an overbite dude what the heck see if I can help position this a little better?

That's a bit. You better know that these are not normal snakes that I can just throw something at and move on to the next, you know, some snakes, you know, you can give it to them and they will happily take it and eat it, other snakes, you. I know I need attention to do the job uh, a little special, yeah, I mean, you give it to him, you come back in a little while and he forgets what he was supposed to do and you'll find the mouse. at the bottom of the cage this guy doesn't really want to bite or kill the mouse and he usually isn't fast enough with the female there so I usually euthanize the mouse and hand it to him just like I did and De This way, he can be helped and you do the work, as long as the female doesn't interfere, but it looks like she might actually have licked him.

You know, I'm kind of scamming you, you know, you know. Some of the ones that don't normally see live feeders feed well, like I said, I euthanize the animal ahead of time so we don't show actual live feeding, but this is a freshly euthanized mouse. um so it's good to have some video of this guy he's a good guy um the woman is pretty gross she's the one that came out to the room and I had to get out of the baseboard heater rating and she was Very unhappy for a long time and wouldn't feed off of me so I put her with this guy and they have been cohabiting.

I think peacefully. I don't think there's been too much trouble in Paradise here, but. You know no one has tried to breed or anything, which makes me happy because feeding the scales baby sauce is also a little annoying, but you know SAU scales are gregarious, they like to be kept in small groups, You know, I want the animal to be happy and uh uh, you know, have some company if I can do that, but they also have to be friendly and not, you know, bite each other, even though they are resistant to each other's venom. Unfortunately, Lori and I have seen, you know, puff addes kill each other who were cohabiting and uh um, it's nothing you can do and it's pretty gruesome and disgusting to watch, so anyway it looks like he's got this figured out, uh um, since he can't eat. very often I give him the second one that I have left uh we'll let him go and see if uh we'll stop filming now and we'll see uh let's see if he gets the second one uh uh and he learned from this experience hello buddy, he was fine since he had his uh , his mouth is full, he kind of stops swallowing the other mouse and when I approached him with the previously killed mouse, uh, he backed away. and I started climbing easily ooh wow, I'm certainly glad it wasn't my finger, I think he realized that okay, I'm going after this one way or another even though I thought I had permanently killed the mouse, apparently it wasn't quite dead, so if you'll excuse me, I'm sorry I don't normally show this, but I thought the mouse was properly neutralized, but the important thing is that it grabbed it and not my finger. although they keep their blows quite short, they are not like some snakes that throw their entire body at you, it is usually nothing more than the first two, 3 halves to 2/3 of the pot, one third to the half. the length of his body um if you're in that range they have you uh out of that uh you're probably lucky enough to be

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ed oh well, it looks like he's trying to figure this out the right way why me He got in a bad mood all of a sudden, I think once he realized I was offering him something else to eat, he said, "Okay, if this is what you're doing, okay, I'll take it off your hands, um, but you know." You saw earlier in the video that he actually came forward and was very interested in removing the mouse from the tweezers, actually very kindly and gently, even though you didn't align it correctly, it seems to be fine.

Yeah, I want him to get almost everything down, so what I'm going to do is try to line things up a little better for him because I don't want to leave the scene until I get almost everything down. way down this way the female um is not going to be able to intercede now, believe it or not, I have had the other snake in the cage, not this one, not this particular cage, but one started eating and then the other one started eating from the The other end and that's a problem in the middle for me, is that the one you had to cut in half finally, well, actually he was with Kermit and the other Green Mamba in the cage, yes, he had the one with the head and the Other had the body, so I cut the neck, but you know, basically you have to take the one with the back and you have to try to deter it as gently as possible so it doesn't let go and sometimes that doesn't work. and it's a real problem because you don't want to bother the one who's eating it you wanted that snake to have the bite um so it spits it out and then no one eats it um it's really complicated well it looks like he has this uh under control and the female it's under the hut um tomorrow we'll clean the uh uh it looks like I clean this and it just has lots and lots of Po okay so that's the North African white-bellied scaled Lucco gaster. hello fruitcake, okay, notice the prey doesn't move, oh, one slap on the tail and he still can't get it right.

God, we really have special snakes. Go ahead and bite into the water dish. See if I care. Are you waiting for a chase? That's the problem. Oh, you got it moving. She simply can't hit targets that don't move. She has to be moving so that she can reach the goal. Hey? Alright. I've also seen that she can't hit a moving target either. So we'll let her enjoy her food.