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i need some advice help :(
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Old 11-21-2009, 12:05 PM   #11
LBoz
Not "some" months....MANY months!

I also wouldn't "personally" advise only rat pinks. Again, his size is not an issue, and you don't want to make him fat.
 
Old 11-21-2009, 01:20 PM   #12
Asbit
DarkSmoke

This is being posted to you with the utmost respect. I have been a stubborn teenager at one time and am now raising a stubborn 18 yr old. I am pointing these things out to you for a couple of reasons.

1. If you continue with the behavior you are displaying on here, you will quickly receive no responses from anyone anymore.
2. You're lack of respect and stubborn attitude is currently killing the corn snake you have and if you continue this way, you will likely kill or harm any other animal in your care. At this point your main focus seems to be on yourself(what you want to do regardless of what results it will have) and not on what is best for you animals.

Please look at your behavior listed below and try very hard not to be defensive and think of it as an attack but instead as a chance to see your actions from an outside point of view. This is meant as constructive criticism with the hopes that you will learn and grow from it, and inadvertently your animals will benefit from your personal growth.

You keep asking for help and then getting upset when people try to help you out. You choose not to carefully read what is posted as the answers to your questions and then do not follow the advice given. When things do not work out as you want them to, you blame those trying to help you, instead of taking responsibility for your own lack of reading carefully and following directions.

You have gotten angry and defensive, when people have tried to help you save the life of your corn snake by suggesting you buy specific tools to ensure it's husbandry is correct. You state you have no money and can not afford as little as $8-$15 dollars.Now you have gone out an bought another live animal. This will upset those try to help you when you get angry at them for suggesting you buy items needed to properly care for the corn snake and you say you have no money but now you have money to buy another snake!

In this post you have shown that you have not bothered to ensure you can properly provide for the one you have because when questioned about the corn snake you brush of the question and state you will address the issue in another thread and then go one about the question you started this one for.

Then when advised you should hold off on getting another animal(for the safety of the new animal, no disrespect intended to you) until you know if the corn is contagiously ill you rudely state

Quote:
too late, its here now.
so back to my question...
This shows a lack of concern for the animals in your care and a lack of respect for the people on here, whom you keep coming to for advice.

You frequently post a problem and then complain about no responses or make a decision before giving anyone time to respond, again showing you do not actually care what people are going to tell you. Example, this thread was started at 6:34am on Nov 20/09, to ask if a shelf would be big enough to house a new snake in and by 10:49 am on Nov 20/09 you state you have already bought the new snake.

These actions are making you look more like a person who is simply coming to a public forum and starting multiple threads for attention and the thrill of an argument(other wise known as a troll), instead of as a person who is coming to the public forum genuinely looking for help, support and friendship in a like minded community.

Please take the time to read this post through beginning to end several times, slowly so that you can get the true tone of my post, it is not rude, harsh or ignorant, it is polite, constructive criticism meant to help you out.

Now for the question of this thread...as everyone has said to you several times in several threads about this corn snake....follow Kathy Love's regurge FAQ, search it out on here....it will take many months for that snake to be healthy if not a year, if you listen, if you do not you WILL kill it. Stop worrying about trying to have a snake with size and bulk it is not a snake body building contest, so what if he is small. Small and alive is better than attempted large and dead.
 
Old 11-21-2009, 03:38 PM   #13
bitsy
One pinkie every 5 days in a few months time, after he's stopped regurging yes.

And no, stick with mouse pinkies. When you need to increase, give him two mouse pinkies at a time. But that will be quite some time after you've moved to one feed every 5 days.
 
Old 11-21-2009, 04:00 PM   #14
tricksterpup
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ok then , so my last 2 questions. feeding every 5days is ok once he has gone some months without regurg?
also , cause nobody answered on this one , is it a good idea to switch to pinky rats ?
I am not sure why people are telling you this.. Pinky rats are just to big.
Personally I do not feed my corns Rats.. i keep mine on a diet of mice.
Plus if you are afraid of regurge recheck your husbandry (how you are keeping the snake). If you do not bother your pet while its digesting and keep good temps and care, your animal isnt going to regurge even if you feed it twice a week.

I think what you need to do is some hands off for awhile and keep it in its cage.
 
Old 11-21-2009, 05:47 PM   #15
DarkSmoke
ok first before i continue on these thread, Asbit , i answered to your post on the other thread you posted that same post but im gonna paste it here too unless you dont read it on the other side but thanks again for your advice here too.

i know i sound rude and out of respect sometime and attack people, but i dont do it to be an idiot or to try to look cool or something i just can't stand people because they know everything and they are expert they start to get angry at me when i post something so i attack back, if you read my posts i have been attacked many times for , i ask a question m you answer with help, i question your help , but i dont do it to try to say that i know more then you , i do it because i want detailed explanations about the help you gave me cause im the curious type of guy that wants to learn and not just get help, do it, problem solved, yes trough but i dont know what really happened.

so please try to understand me too . another thing iv been raised in a country where many people claim to be experts in things then they are just plain idiots, im not saying this is the case here i know there are really experts in here but when i see someone talking as an expert and trying to make you look like plain zero for asking alot of questions and being rode i go into defenseve mode because thats how i was adepted to act in this country. and please dont tell me that people were'nt rude to me here, there where the ones that where patient to me and answered my questions even when i questioned there help , like bitsy and many others and im very thankfull to these people , but there where other people that acted to me in a way that made me act to them like that.

to the ball python part, i was really looking for a ball python , it took time to resieve a response here that that shelf is not good enough for the ball python and when i asked the petshop if that size is good they said its ok so i bought it. maybe yes, i admit , i acted a bit stupid and i should have waited for an expert response from here, again tough this shelf is just for abouth 2-3months max then im building a bigger viv. so for now it should suit him.

im not a guy that like to be aggresive to people im the relax type of guy which doesnt like people in bad moods wich acts with that "hey i know everything you do as i see im giving help here just shut up and do what im telling you without questioning else its trouble" attitude, and itts not me to be the first one to complain about this on this forum. that when people brake my relaxing mood and make me go aggressive.

but fine, i'll try to control that and don't act like that, but it musnt only come from my part.

i also understand that people in the states are going in a bad time for their crazy goverment trying to ban the pets they truly love, but not everyone should just gat attacked for making mistakes cause of that, in my case i dont have anything to do with the states. but anyway i think iv said enough, i hope you can understand me like i understood you, and please you should no better that when an 18year old wants something that really likes it will do anything to have it, in this case i really wanted that ball python and i got it, i wasnt calm enough to wait for an expert response but again i admit that. i am looking for a relaxing forum with people with patience and that can discuss help and cal m relaxing, and if that their help is questioned then they should give detailed explanations of their help and not get aggrasive,
 
Old 11-21-2009, 05:50 PM   #16
DarkSmoke
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Originally Posted by bitsy View Post
One pinkie every 5 days in a few months time, after he's stopped regurging yes.

And no, stick with mouse pinkies. When you need to increase, give him two mouse pinkies at a time. But that will be quite some time after you've moved to one feed every 5 days.
ok so i'll stick with 1 mice a weak after the 10days break has passed then i will continue like that untill alot of months has passed without any regurgs. then maybe i'll switch to 1 mouse per 5days after that or continue with one mouse every 7 days.

thanks guys for answering to my questions thanks again for the help. my main concern was that the snake was unhealthy cause of his small size at this age, but that got answered.

thanks
 
Old 11-21-2009, 06:11 PM   #17
LBoz
Dark...for many feedings going forward, you want to make sure you are feeding the appropriate size for a post-regurg snake. Are you currently feeding pinks?
 
Old 11-21-2009, 06:15 PM   #18
jlindp
Since your corn has been regurging quite a bit, you should seriously consider only feeding him 1/2 pinks, at least for the first few meals, just to see if he keeps it down. Then you can GRADUALLY move up.
 
Old 11-21-2009, 06:23 PM   #19
DarkSmoke
when he didnt regurg i used to give him mice thich as his thichest part since you can give snakes mice thick as x1.5 the thicest part. but of course i will give him a smaller mouse for the next feeding. no they weren't pinkies since there werent pink lol they had some fur , but i tell the petshop where i buy them to choose and he shows me a box full of them with different sizes which i choose from
 
Old 11-21-2009, 06:32 PM   #20
bitsy
Pick the very very smallest ones he has in stock for the next few feeds. Baby steps.
 

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