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Darn snows anyway
- Thread starter abell82
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Jr Nimeskern
Snake lover for lifer
Dont you just hate that? I have 2 females who are the same way! Both are Ghosts! I tell you I hate running to the petstore to buy live food just because my lovely snakes are picky!
Very Nice snow though. Love the colors!
Very Nice snow though. Love the colors!
Simon
Corn Manic
Oh man, I hate those too.....
I have
0.1 Honduran milk snake
1.1 Ball python
1.0 Anery Striped corn snake
that does this.....and it's out of my whole collection that these 4 has to do this......and it's really hard for me to get live food...cause my gf would kill me if I did get any at home.....
but what I do is get a live prey and let them eat it first, then I use f/t mouse to 'stick' it into their mouth BEFORE they give the last push of the fresh killed mouse into their 'neck'. So what I basically do is put the f/t mouse's head near the butt of the live mouse so that it thinks that the mouse isn't finished yet....and most of them will keep on eating that way.
Doing it this way have a few advantage
1) Cheapter to feeding f/t (at least a few less live.....)
2) No risk that the snake is getting hurt
3) don't need to buy as much live mice since they are much much more expensive than f/t
4) The most important point.....feeding this way MIGHT get the snake used to f/t mouse smell....that way it MIGHT eat f/t mice on it's own later on.....there are a lot of cases when this actually happened......
Good Luck and Happy Herping!!
I have
0.1 Honduran milk snake
1.1 Ball python
1.0 Anery Striped corn snake
that does this.....and it's out of my whole collection that these 4 has to do this......and it's really hard for me to get live food...cause my gf would kill me if I did get any at home.....
but what I do is get a live prey and let them eat it first, then I use f/t mouse to 'stick' it into their mouth BEFORE they give the last push of the fresh killed mouse into their 'neck'. So what I basically do is put the f/t mouse's head near the butt of the live mouse so that it thinks that the mouse isn't finished yet....and most of them will keep on eating that way.
Doing it this way have a few advantage
1) Cheapter to feeding f/t (at least a few less live.....)
2) No risk that the snake is getting hurt
3) don't need to buy as much live mice since they are much much more expensive than f/t
4) The most important point.....feeding this way MIGHT get the snake used to f/t mouse smell....that way it MIGHT eat f/t mice on it's own later on.....there are a lot of cases when this actually happened......
Good Luck and Happy Herping!!
Susan
Go Ahead, Make My Day!
A trick to get off live/fresh killed
Since your snake will eat fresh killed prey, try "braining" it first. Once it has eaten several that has the brain scent, try a F/T that has also been brained, i.e. has almost the same scent it's been eating. From there, it's not hard to get it to regular F/T.
Since your snake will eat fresh killed prey, try "braining" it first. Once it has eaten several that has the brain scent, try a F/T that has also been brained, i.e. has almost the same scent it's been eating. From there, it's not hard to get it to regular F/T.