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Another feeding question...sorry

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Stix

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Hiya i'm new to the board and a little confused. Its my 1st snake and i'm feeding him for the 1st time tomorrow i know i have to put him in another container with the pinkie but do i then put the feeding container in his viv and leave him for awhile? Thanx :)
 
Stix said:
Hiya i'm new to the board and a little confused. Its my 1st snake and i'm feeding him for the 1st time tomorrow i know i have to put him in another container with the pinkie but do i then put the feeding container in his viv and leave him for awhile? Thanx :)
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After the little guy is done eating, I wait about 10 mins before I gently let him crawl back into his viv.
 
You are not supposed to hold the snake either for 2 days after the feeding it lets the digestion get complete and keeps stress low so your snake doesn’t :puke01: that’s all I have to say
 
Once your snake gets a few meals in it, handling after feeding doesn't seem to be as big of a problem as advertised. I usually wait until the next day, but unless I know I have a regurger, I'll handle any snake over a couple months old after feedings with no problems. If the snake is really getting worked up, I'd try another time though. Too much stress will cause the food to come up! Overall, I think the handling rule is extremely overstated.
 
I am always afraid I am going to cause harm to my snake, I am not afraid I am going to stress it out I am more afraid that she will be a little jumpy after a god meal.

And it is jut a safety thing to tell a newer member to jsut keep them on their toes, but I do agree that this point is over emphasized, once your snake is use to you and feeding I think that that fear will subside. :eek1:
 
Thanx everyone. I fed him tonight. He didn't seem ready to be picked up, i haven't had him very long so i fed him in his viv although i dont think he saw me but he ate the pinkie straight away-just hope he keeps it down.
 
Sounds like everything went well! Congrats. Make sure to post some pics of your little guy so we can oohh and ahhh at him.

Oh and what did you name him?


Daniel
 
Did you put the pinky on something so that he won't ingest substrate? I know people say that problem is over-rated too, but there are people on here who have had impaction problems from substrate ingestion.
 
His substrate can be digested it's made for snakes,lizards,turtles etc and says it's ok if the snake eats it- so i thought it would be ok?
I went in today to check on him and there was a white 'blob' on the floor of the viv is there a way of knowing if it was a regurge or just him doing his 'buisness'??
 
Sounds ok to me. I've been lucky so far, but everybody I've seen post about it has said that you will KNOW if it's a regurge.
 
I've had one regurge, and to be honest, it didn't smell that bad, but I have smelled some from a friend's snake that really stunk. If there was white, and maybe a little yellow and brown, it's probably poo. I use substrate that says it's safe too, but I don't want to chance it. I feed in a seperate container, and if I have to feed in the viv due to a nervous snake, I feed on paper.
 
Just on a normal paper? I am going to put him in a different container to feed him but he's still abit nervous of me, i've only had him a week so hopefully he will be ok soon.
Thanx everyone for the help just wanted to make sure i wasn't stressin him out. :)
 
just find a tupperware container to feed him in. that way he'll also disassociate your hand from food, because he will learn that he moves to a different area than his cage to eat.
 
I've never had an issue with my snakes biting me when I put my hand in their cage, because I didn't just feed them, I also handled them. I had to feed two of them in their vivs due to them being too nervous to eat in a seperate container. After a little bit though, they both were calm enough to eat in the seperate container and I took the paper towel out of their vivs and replaced it with aspen. If you do feed in the viv, just be certain that you open the viv lid and do things other than feed, so they don't associate the opening with food all the time.
 
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