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Anery takes hours to eat pinky?

Tyger9791

Tyger9791

Animal Care Specialist
My anery is a bit strange. I really need to figure out a name for him, BTW, just calling him the Anery is getting old.
But anyway, I will put a pinky in his tub around 7pm Tuesday night. I checked him in the morning, pinky still there. and not looking too pretty. it's really dark red, kinda sticky, but not smelly though. I checked again at lunch hour, still hadnt eaten it. I try doing the pinkie zombie dance, but he doesnt seem interested. I put him back in the tub and then put the pinky back in with him. and he goes right for it. My worry though, is if the pinky is bad, it's sat out for a good 16 hrs before he ate it. this is the second time he's done this...he wont eat it unless it's sat there for hours.
Is it ok for him to eat a pinky thats sat out for so long?
hey i majored in criminology in college and i know about crime scene investigation...i know TOO much about decomposition of bodies. thats why i kinda worry about this sort of stuff.
corns arent supposed to be scavengers, i thought they liked fresh meat?
 
Do you slice the back of the f/t pinky?. Scenting it could help trigger a responce. :shrugs:

Good Luck
 
Ok I'd try that, cutting it. You can also try a live one because that moves around and it will be easyer.

I tryed this the very first time i got mine and she was small, and she ate it.

I'd try the live one if you're cutting tech. fails.

good luck
 
I was reading an article a while back (no idea what the source was sorry, so you'll just have to trust that I'm not spinning here!), which said that when wild caught rat snakes (all sorts of Elaphe) had their stomach contents explored (yes, unfortunately some snakes gave their lives as part of this projects) it was found that some of the prey items were decomposed to a degree consistent with them being dead for a little time before ingestion making it appear that these snakes are opportunistic carrion eaters as well as live prey hunters. I suppose this is why they are so quick to accept pre killed prey whereas other reptiles (like chameleons) are quite strictly visual hunters which rely on movement to identify food.
 
If you're feeding f/t mice try making sure that the mouse is well heated (live mice are about 100-101 degrees F body temp). As Lenny suggested, I make cuts in all the mice I feed. It helps them to digest and it also gets the scent out there.
 
Whilst talking about feeding, alot of you guys use the phrase f/t mice, what is that???? I can't work out what f/t is. I hate abbreviations of any sort.
 
I wondered about the f/t reference, too, haha. I used pre-killed/frozen mice, also, and never heard of them being called f/t's.. haha
 
Though sometimes I think it should be t/f because we offer them thawed frozen mice, not frozen thawed ones!

From the mouse's perspective, though, I guess it frozen, thawed. But I never think of it from the mouse's perspective. :shrugs:
 
Yeah try slicing the mice.

I normaly put 2 across the back and 2 across the belly. Works like a charm. My lil guy goes completely berzerk (Some times he gets so excited he actuly squeezes a bit of blood out).
 
Cycal said:
(Some times he gets so excited he actuly squeezes a bit of blood out).
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My snow is my most aggressive feeder. One time, she had squeezed so much blood out that it looked like the poor mouse exploded! Good thing it was already dead.
 
When it comes to f/t mice, us Cannucks, would call it TV dinner. :spinner:

On a serious note, we're also having a hard time getting our male to eat. Is it mostly males that are the fussy eaters, as most posts about finickey eaters seem to be about male snakes. Our girls have great appetites, and we just got another boy (albino - no name yet), and have no clue what his eating habits are goign to be like.
 
Actually, of the corns, the males are the best eaters except at breeding time. The females are pretty off and on (at least the Okeetee bunch) and I never know if they are going to eat from one week to the next. Even the female I just bred is not eating. I expected her to really scarf the food in preparation for laying, but nothing.
 
MegF. said:
Actually, of the corns, the males are the best eaters except at breeding time. The females are pretty off and on (at least the Okeetee bunch) and I never know if they are going to eat from one week to the next. Even the female I just bred is not eating. I expected her to really scarf the food in preparation for laying, but nothing.
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Really? I find it is just the opposite with my snakes. Of my corns over a year old, it is my female that is my most consistent eater.

My male amel has been on and off with his feeding ever since November. Even my male king snake has refused a few meals these last few months.

Of course, I only have the three (two corns and a king) that are over a year old. (I'm not counting the ball pythons. They go by a whole different set of rules.) So I may just have a really aggressive female.
 
Soleila75 said:
Is it mostly males that are the fussy eaters, as most posts about finickey eaters seem to be about male snakes. Our girls have great appetites, and we just got another boy (albino - no name yet), and have no clue what his eating habits are goign to be like.
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In my experience the desire to eat well and regularly is probably most affected my their temperature level. I've found that an animal that shys away from a fuzzy and hides with no interest in eating will come right out swinging at a medium adult a couple hours later if I bump the temperature.

My collection is on gradients from 87-77 in their sterilite 1754's and they'll hit almost every time. Another collection I work with has a one-room ambient temperature and they'll only all eat when the room sits above 80 degrees- anything lower and they're about 70/30 eaters/non-eaters.

You might also try some things like modifying the feeding time to the evening light cycle when they'd normally be ranging for food. You can alsy try turning the lights on a half hour before feeding on a regular basis, and trying to be consistent with your food temperatures [as was just mentioned in another thread pinky/fuzzy temps are hovering around the 100 degree mark- if you've even sorted a colony of live mice you'd know they are furry little heaters] so that the animals recognize a f/t item as "live prey".

hope some of this helps ;]
 
Update!

Guinness is eating fine now! I tried slicing the pinky and he checked it out, and then ate it right up. This morning i didnt slice it, just to see what would happen, and he grabbed the pinky right away.
Usually I feed in the early evening, usually around 7pm. Thats when I usually catch Blaze and Aidan cruising around.
But this morning, Guinness was up and around, with the time change, it's dark now at 7am. so i decided to try and see if he would eat. and he did.
 
Am I understanding this right. You fed last night, and now you're feeding again the following morning?
 
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