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by Phobos on December 20, 2004
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Anyone want to comment on how their captive snakes act differently at night than during the day? Many times we hear about the differences for instance: Bungarus flaviceps is a "Pussycat" by day but at night it's a whole diffent snake. What's your experences?
My C. vipera's are very calm & collected nearly impossible to piss off during the day but at night if I go check them out the female instantly goes defensive and starts "Sawscaling" striking at everything.
Al
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by Scootertrash on December 20, 2004
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Hey Al, my rattlers are the same way. They usually hide during the day and even when disturbed, they usually don't even make a sound. At night, they come out and wander around the enclosure to see if there might be a little surprise. I keep them well fed but they still seem to be searching for something. They get very defensive if I go near them at night I suppose no one here thinks of this as unusual but just thought I would reply to your post. By the way, I'm leaving on the 23rd to go back to Georgia for Christmas. Coming back on the 3rd. Should be a good trip. Maybe a little cold for snake hunting but I'll give it a shot. I know a few places where I have found them hibernating before. I don't disturb them though.
Clayton
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by ALA_herp31 on December 20, 2004
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I dont have any venomous at this time, but my Black Rat Snake seems to be less pissy after the sun gose down. She is a 4 1/2ft. WC that was brout to me by a friend of mine 3 weeks back. Now when I first un-baged her she was stricking like mad, But now she seems to be less aggresive at night than during the day, she has not once offerd to bite me at night and I can not figure out why......Happy herping Wally
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by bush_viper17 on December 20, 2004
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cool, I live in Georgia. The weathers been weird. Some days its cold and other times it feels a little warm.
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by ALA_herp31 on December 20, 2004
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The temps here have been ritching the Mid. 60s about 3 days a week still, strange huu?.......Wally
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by tj on December 21, 2004
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I had a yellow eyelash viper that was much more "animated" at nighttime, it would strike at everything and nothing. The norm for the species I guess.
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by KINGRIUS on December 21, 2004
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I usually catch my e. cottonmouth roaming his enclosure during the day. Seems like he's mostly inactive by late night. Sometimes when I enter the room he immediately goes defensive and rattles his tail. Other times he barely notices my presence.
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by Snake17 on December 21, 2004
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All of my snakes mostly bask during the day or stay hidden and then become maybe 10 times more active whe the sun goes down( not necesarily when I turn off the lights). But this hiper-activity doesn`t last all night but weares off pretty quickly(1/2 - 2 hours). It`s pretty interesting. Happy herping next season, Alex S
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by Dadee on December 24, 2004
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Hey Al,
Mine are just like Clayton's. Actually my EDB doesn't even come out most nights. He stays in his burrow for a good 4 out of 7 days. When he does appear, he's extermely aggresive and will strike at almost anything. My WDB however, she's a breed of a different sort. She loves the spotlight and I often find her during the day very close to it in her enclosure...up on top of a cliff mounted to the wall for her. At night, she'll do the same thing with the night light, only she'll stretch out trying to reach out to the light (reminiscent of the King Kong movie). I know that she's not cold, because she'll use her heat rock when she's cold, but she rather loves the light...kind of strange when you think that the light puts out heat. It's almost as if she's smelling the light. She does get irritated when I come into the room at night though...as she'll watch my every move and kicks up the rattle when I get close. My gabby's are different all together. They hide under their leaf litter 85% of the time, so I can't really say that they get more active at night. My cottons and copperheads are just like the gabbys, they don't get all that active at any particular point in the day...only when they get their "soak" do they even make quick movements. Just my observations.
I'm in the process of setting up some cameras on my enclosures for observation purposes. When I'm done, I hope to be able to capture some otherwise unknown behaviors on my snakes. I believe that they behave differently when I'm present (even if hidden from view), than when I'm not. I've setup a camcorder before, but that can only last for 2 hours max. I want to actually be able to look in during hours that I would tend to stay away. I hope that the heat on most of the enclosures and the humidity on my cottons enclosure doesn't mess up the cameras, but that's something I'll address down the road.
Happy holidays,
Matt
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