Mmmmmm.......rat!

[LPacker79]

My yearling Coastal carpet "killing" her thawed rat hopper.

 

[DnKslr]

Wow! That's gonna be quite a mouthful! Did she get it down ok?

 

[LPacker79]

Yup, no problems. The great thing about Carpets is that they're able to eat something that would be too big for some other snakes their size. I was giving her fuzzy rats, but all the breeders were telling me fuzzies were too small for her. They feed fuzzy rats to their hatchlings.

 

[Immortal_sin]

whoa! that IS a mouthful!
great pics!

 

[Crotalus]

Yup, no problems. The great thing about Carpets is that they're able to eat something that would be too big for some other snakes their size. I was giving her fuzzy rats, but all the breeders were telling me fuzzies were too small for her. They feed fuzzy rats to their hatchlings.

Nothing im aware of in a carpet pythons anathomy that differs from other boids.
All snakes that have mammals as primarely food source can swallow larger prey then one might think, but its not really advisable to feed them larger prey then they are thick (body). If I have to choose from giving smaller prey (and a number of them) or a larger prey that are too large really - I choose the smaller prey items. Not saying that rat is too large for your snake, but its a borderline in my opinion.

/Lelle

 

[DnKslr]

It looks quite large but she looks like she's gonna put in the extra effort!

 

[LPacker79]

Nothing im aware of in a carpet pythons anathomy that differs from other boids.
All snakes that have mammals as primarely food source can swallow larger prey then one might think, but its not really advisable to feed them larger prey then they are thick (body). If I have to choose from giving smaller prey (and a number of them) or a larger prey that are too large really - I choose the smaller prey items. Not saying that rat is too large for your snake, but its a borderline in my opinion.

/Lelle

Yes Lelle, I'm going by what I've been told by a multitude of carpet keepers. Not sure where the info first originated, but it's pretty commonly passed around. The pictures make the size difference seem bigger than it is, the snake does not have that big of a lump.

 

[Crotalus]

Yes Lelle, I'm going by what I've been told by a multitude of carpet keepers. Not sure where the info first originated, but it's pretty commonly passed around.

Well, in that case it gotta be true.. I just wonder what other snakes in the same size cant eat what a carpet eat.

/Lelle