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!!Feeding!!

Mangrove

Mangrove

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Well, today was the first time in 7 days I have fed my snake. My mother went out to the pet shop when I was in school and bought me a mouse... i mean like a mouse she said they didnt have any other fuzzys and didnt want to buy 2 pinkies. The mouse was more than 2 times the thickness of my corn. She got it struck and killed which made me feel worse because I though I killed a mouse for nothing, but like 30 min later she slowly started to choke it down, I was very impressed. I also have to add that she is close to sheding so her skin Is not a flexable now as it should be. I dont want to have to do that ever again but I mean it was pretty neat to see.
have you ever had this same problem with feeding a snake? I know it is smarter to feed it a size smaller and buy 2 but I mean I have to check on her tomorrow to see how she is.
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How big is your snake? Are you used to feeding fuzzies? Hopefully, the prey wasn't too big for her.
 
Congrats you just learned a valuable husbandry lesson!

Isn't it surprising to see the snake eat something that you swear is too big? We, as keepers, tend to baby our animals and fret about details that are inconsequential. That snake in programmed to make smart meal decisions by himself. Do you think that your corn would pass up that meal in the wild? No unless it had a desire to die! They are after all opportunistic feeders.

Most keepers are very nervous about upping the meal size. As long as the temperature is sufficient for proper digestion, these little guys are more than capable of eating appropriate proportions in spite of our our efforts. :)
 
howiet4702 said:
How big is your snake? Are you used to feeding fuzzies? Hopefully, the prey wasn't too big for her.
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I have a 5-6 month old Albino Creamsicle corn, she is about 2 feet long and thickest point is aobut as thick as about a penny. I dont think the food is too beg, because a corns skin is alot more elastic like than the king and milk, but if it was in the wile and found a bird or lizard it will eat it no matter what, they are even know for eating nests of birds they come across, so i am not to scared. It was about 2 times as thick but I mean with the fur looks can be deciving.
 
CAV said:
Isn't it surprising to see the snake eat something that you swear is too big? We, as keepers, tend to baby our animals and fret about details that are inconsequential. That snake in programmed to make smart meal decisions by himself. Do you think that your corn would pass up that meal in the wild? No unless it had a desire to die! They are after all opportunistic feeders.

Most keepers are very nervous about upping the meal size. As long as the temperature is sufficient for proper digestion, these little guys are more than capable of eating appropriate proportions in spite of our our efforts. :)
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but also with that do you think a snake would make the smart choice of passing up food that it knows is way to big to be eatten, that is the question. I mean I know if they get into a birds nest it will eat all the birds but is a meal to big to make a snake back down?? :eatsmiley :eatsmiley
 
That depends on many variables

My point was that your snake was probably ready for a bigger meal, even if you didn't think it was. :)
 
Fast food?? Burgerking or Toco Bell?? eat in or take out??

CAV said:
My point was that your snake was probably ready for a bigger meal, even if you didn't think it was. :)
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oh im sorry I guess I missunderstood your post, but do you think it would pass up a meal I knows is to big in the wild??
 
well i guess im gunna go for tonight keep me informed about what is happinning. :devil01:
 
CAV said:
Most keepers are very nervous about upping the meal size.
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It's a safe bet to say that I was just a COMPLETE mess when I upped to fuzzies. It's funny... with kids I'm like "Oh that's just a broken bone! NOOOO problem. We'll get that fixed right up. You'll have the coolest cast in all the land!", but with my snakes I'm like "OMG, DON'T CHOKE!!"

It's sick, really.
 
Mangrove said:
I have a 5-6 month old Albino Creamsicle corn, she is about 2 feet long and thickest point is aobut as thick as about a penny. I dont think the food is too beg, because a corns skin is alot more elastic/QUOTE]

Not only that, but bear in mind that most adult mice can squeeze into tiny holes to escape, as small as half an inch, if I remember correctly.

Imagine a mouse "stretched out" so that the torso is thin as possible, then imagine the fur being matted down from being wet....

Add digestive juices, and stir occasionally. Voila! Snake nutrition. :p

regards,
jazz
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Mangrove, my amel started eating small mice at around 22 inches (same problem no fuzzies), and he has since romped on and now eats a small mouse every 7 days ithout even having to think about it (yeah i know i need to upgrade him again).
 
Not surprized that the snake ate the mouse. I have a friend who I got into corns (it's like a disease, I swear) and he was unsure about food size. He was feeding his little dudes 2 pinks every five days and still thought his snakes were too small for fuzzies. After I took time to explain to him (nice guy, but I needed to do this tree times) that his snakes were ready to eat fuzzies because they were already eating two pinks, he tried it and now he records every feeding with his video camera. He also accidently bought live fuzzies once (the pet shop he bought them from only carry live, but will freeze them if given notice at least a day in advance) and was surprised at how quickly his snakes struck and killed. My friend is so special :punch: .
 
yes, I agree you E. g. guttata most of what snakes do is all instict and they learn very quickly what to do and what not to do. :noevil:
 
Here is the timeline I follow

I normally will have hatchling on fuzzies before they are 2 months old unless the snake is a problem feeder.
 
CAV said:
I normally will have hatchling on fuzzies before they are 2 months old unless the snake is a problem feeder.
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Whoa..2 months? Are they peach fuzzies? I think I am behind the 8 ball here...
 
Feeding habbits

CAV said:
I normally will have hatchling on fuzzies before they are 2 months old unless the snake is a problem feeder.
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I have had my corn on fuzzys for a good month to month and a half now, but I think she is getting bored with them, she dosnt even constrict them anymore instead she just tries to choke them down so now I have moved onto the largest fuzzys or smallets hoppers, because like you stated before if a snake crosses a meal in real nature it will not pass it up. :eatsmiley
 
Smarter than we know...

My baby hognose wouldn't eat the large pinkies I was trying to feed, even though they were size proportionate to his body. As soon as I switched to day old pinks (teeny pinkies), he hammered two in a row. I guess he knew more about what he could handle than I did!

Then there's my snow corn baby who attacks the large pinks like Godzilla, but can't keep them down. Now he's on teeny pinkies and it seems to be ok.

:confused: You just have to wonder about nature.....
 
Of the three hatchlings I held back from last year, only one of them refused fuzzy's, but not immediately. She first decided to regurge and then went through the whole process of getting back on track, successfully held down two and decided she wanted smaller food. Picky little thing.
 
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