feeding question?

I am getting my first corn in a couple of weeks, and I am trying to make sure I get all the necessary stuff. my question is if you feed the snake in a different container than the one they live in how do you transfer them back without causing them to regurge? as I have been told not to handle for at least 48 hrs after feeding.

des73 said:

I am getting my first corn in a couple of weeks, and I am trying to make sure I get all the necessary stuff. my question is if you feed the snake in a different container than the one they live in how do you transfer them back without causing them to regurge? as I have been told not to handle for at least 48 hrs after feeding.

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By handling, people usually mean having the snake in your hands, crawling around, up you arm, showing him to friends, etc. Lifting the snake from the feeding tub and carrying it back to its living quarters is fine.

With the hatchlings, if they are a bit flighty, I tip them gently back from their feeding tub into their living quarters, and continue until they are a bit moreused to handling

I always leave my corn in her feeding tank for about 1/2 hour before taking her out.

Well its hard to say for me because this is the way I feed. I thaw out all the mice (usually about 80-100 at a time) and get my deli cups ready. I feed all my babys-juv's in deli cups outside of the cage. I take the snake, put it in the deli cup, introduce the meal and close the lid. I stack it to the side and move on. By the time I am done with the last meal, snakes 1-50 are done with there meals, and I take the lid off the deli cup and set it into the tub, and close it up (the container on the rack). I do this with all of my snakes, and by the time I am done putting tubs 50-100 into the rack, I go down to snake cage 1-50 to take out the deli cups. (They crawl out on there own) and by the time i am done with 1-50, 51-100 have crawled out, therefore I take there cups out.

I have a few each time that would rather not move much after eating, and I leave them in there until I am done feeding all my adults, then I remove the container.

Sounds tough, but the whole process only takes about an hour.

Ryan

My little corn just loves to eat! i put her in a seperate little container to feed her. However, once she's eaten she will still strike at me if i put my hand near her. She probably thinks that shes getting more too eat, or being definsive. Any other time she's a baby doll. So I just take her little "feeding container" with her in it and set it insider her enclosure. Then sometime later I'll take it out if she's no longer in it.

Then again this is my first snake and learning as I go. Just thought I'd put my 2 cents in.

For my smallest, flightiest snake I do what Ryan does, on a scale of one.

All the others get gently lifted out after they are done.

Nanci

Tinycritters said:

My little corn just loves to eat! i put her in a seperate little container to feed her. However, once she's eaten she will still strike at me if i put my hand near her. She probably thinks that shes getting more too eat, or being definsive. Any other time she's a baby doll. So I just take her little "feeding container" with her in it and set it insider her enclosure. Then sometime later I'll take it out if she's no longer in it.

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She may be striking at you because she is still in "hunt" mode, looking for more food. Are you feeding one food item or two? Also, if you allow her striking at you to prevent you from picking her up, she will learn that striking will make you leave her alone, and it will become a hard habit to break. Ignore the strike, and pick her up anyway.

feeding two f/t pinkies at a time, once a week. Your probably right, about her trying to get out of being handled.

Thanks for the advice

jaxom1957 said:

She may be striking at you because she is still in "hunt" mode, looking for more food. Are you feeding one food item or two? Also, if you allow her striking at you to prevent you from picking her up, she will learn that striking will make you leave her alone, and it will become a hard habit to break. Ignore the strike, and pick her up anyway.

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I agree, a corn snake bite dosent even break the skin, so might as well do it while they re small. A baby boa on the other hand.. i use a snake hook :crazy02:

I beg to differ. I've had a lot of broken skin and some decent bleeding with cornsnake bites. My one baby amel holds on and chews. It hurts and it bleeds. They are small, but the teeth are still sharp. Little strikes and nips aren't a problem, but a real bite does hurt.

Well you must have paper thin skin becasue I have never even felt a bite from a hatchling corn, and yes I have been bitten and the have held on before. Their teeth really are no more then a millimetre long, how could they possibly hurt you?

Inez, all whopping 13 grams of her, got me right at the inside base of my pinky. It wasn't a puncture, it was a slice like a paper cut, and it bled, and it stung, and I could feel it for two days! Just depends where they get you. Zee has gone off his rocker and now tries to chew on me if I handle him- but he gets me right in the palm and can't break the skin. I can barely even feel him. I hope he gives it up soon.

Nanci

That's what I'm talking about. I rarely have them just bite down...they usually strike and release, slashing with those little teeth. They tend to cut. I have tough skin so it's not that. With horses, thin skin won't fly Hands like saddle leather more like it....