• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Did she eat?

Stars

Stars

Moonstruck
Okay so it's her first feed since she got here tuesday... My corn is 35grams so I put a fuzzy on a sandwich container lid in her viv, I didn't feed her in a feeding container because she's a yearling who wasn't ever handled before she arrived here so I didn't want to stress her more by moving her. Anyways 5 mins after I put it there I checked and it was in her mouth, and I left for 10 minutes (I was sure there wouldn't be impaction because she was on the relatively large lid when i saw her take it). So when I went back 10 minutes later the fuzzy wasn't there and I'm not sure if she took it. There might have been a slight lump visible but it was 1/3rd down her body already? It's hard for me to judge since it is my first corn. So basically the question is, how long would it take to go 1/3rd down her ~2ft body?

The fuzzy was only slightly thicker than her max width, very slightly, so not a large meal by any means. I haven't gone searching for it yet because if she did swallow it, I don't want to stress her if I don't have to. She wasn't that far from where I fed her when I checked.
 
My question is...where else could the fuzzy have went if she didn't eat it??

But yea, it doesn't take long for the mouse to reach the stomach once the snake starts to swallow it.
 
Okay thanks. :) Well I did a basic check for it, didn't find it so she must have took it. Would you guys say that if the prey was only 1.2x the width of the snake it would take a semi-trained eye to see the lump?
 
Stars said:
Okay thanks. :) Well I did a basic check for it, didn't find it so she must have took it. Would you guys say that if the prey was only 1.2x the width of the snake it would take a semi-trained eye to see the lump?
Click to expand...

You might have to look for it a little harder than usual, but you might still be able to find it.
 
Is stomach wiggling/shaking a sign of good digestion or bad digestion? Or maybe she was just scared. I quickly checked on her a few hours after feeding and she was doing that, haha. And yeah I'm convinced she ate it now. Oh and it wasn't the wiggling they do to get it down to their stomach, it was more of a tremble.
 
It's a sign you need to leave her alone. If you stress her out too much by checking on her every hour or two, she might regurge. Just leave her a lone and let her do what she does best.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top