I don't see a problem with it. He said he asked for an Ill fish from the pet store. I;m sure if the fish was a healthy one the store person would have given him some feeder fish. I mean come on guys. Doesn't motion stimulate the release of the enzymes in the pitchers? How do we know that didn't kill the fish? I don't see it any differently than me feeding my snakes mice, and NO I do not feed them prekilled or frozen. They prefer live mice, and were not trained to eat prekilled. So now that they are the ages they are its hard to train them otherwise. And you may say yes but a snake eats mice in the wild. Um Ball pythons are from Africa. Yes they may eat mice in the wild too, but I would suspect its not solely that. Its called the food chain. It may not be the way it was in the wild, but NONE of the plants kept in captivity or animals for that matter are given 100% natural conditions so I think a lot of folks are being too sensitive because of someone saying the word gore. Get real. Seeing a fish skeleton in the pitcher is no different than seeing a bugs exoskeleton in the pitcher. They are both serve the same purpose in the animals its just that one is internal and the other is external. Granted a fish is more developed than the insect, or is it? How do we know what came first, and is more developed? Thats our guess, and since we cannot talk with either we assume. So take from it what you will. If you think its cruel thats fine if not thats cool too, but I don't think you should bash the guy for it. What makes that fish different from a feeder fish you would feed to your Oscar? The fact that its a garami vs a goldfish makes no since. Technically a fish is a fish. The fact that he asked for an ill fish tells me he wasn't looking for the healthy-est fish in the first place. Don;t you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet?
Goldi I intentionally feed my snakes live mice too, and there are occasions the snake misses and hits the side of the box scaring the Heck out of the mouse in doing so. I can see the mouses heart beating out of his chest before finally getting struck by the snake the second time. Its a fact of life, and the world is not all bubblegum and gumdrops!! Heck that would be cruel in and of itself to be like that. LOL