My egg-eating snake :D

[Tongue Flicker]

Just wanted to share one of many reasons why my username is what it is


My 2nd favorite pet snake, Oligodon ancorus, that i named Genghis.


Having his momentary sunbath (they rarely if not never bask, so it was absolutely unnecessary lol)










Having his weekly favorite dish, raw egg yolks





In case your wondering, despite his small size and the thick calluses on your hand, they can inflict a very nasty bite due to their specialized teeth used to slit open eggshells

[Mentat]

Interesting snake ! So it just drinks the eggs for food?

[Tongue Flicker]

Yes it does. Only the yolks though. It regurgitates if it sucks in a lot of egg whites. Cholesterol conscious, maybe? Lol

[Mentat]

Strange, the cholesterol is on the yolks ! Probably they have evolved a way to deal with it .

[Tongue Flicker]

Strange, the cholesterol is on the yolks ! Probably they have evolved a way to deal with it .

Haha! The wild-caught ones can definitely drink the egg white. The captivebred ones doesn't deal well with it. Beating it together sometimes yield a favorable result in feeding

[deranged chipmunk]

Maybe it would just prefer an omelette???


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[Tongue Flicker]

But it doesn't eat cooked eggs

[Bombina Bob]

Hey Niel, this is natural for the snake to regurgitate the egg shell afterwards. Many of the egg eating snakes have special vertebrae that crack the egg open and since they cannot digest the shell, they regurgitate it. But, hes your snake

[Tongue Flicker]

Hey Niel, this is natural for the snake to regurgitate the egg shell afterwards. Many of the egg eating snakes have special vertebrae that crack the egg open and since they cannot digest the shell, they regurgitate it. But, hes your snake

The Oligodon genus doesn't swallow eggs whole then spit out the shells even the wild

Only the african genus Dasypeltis does that. Oligodons will forcibly open an egg with a slit via their teeth or their pointed tails. Oligodons also prefer reptile eggs particularly sea turtles and crocodile eggs to devour since reptile eggshells are not as hard as a bird egg whereas the Dasypeltis group eats almost exclusively, birds' eggs.

[Strider18]

Very cool snake! Would be fun and interesting to feed your frog egg yolks lol.