Do you feed in viv on substrate?

[jazzgeek]

Yes I do. Always have . . . but, I do keep my hatchlings on paper towels until they move up to fuzzies.

Likewise, and in ventilated "Gladware" containers. A paper towel folded into fourths is a perfect fit for the sammich boxes.

regards,
jazz

 

[jazzgeek]

so now I only fluff the backs...For everyone. Then slit.

There's a "not suitable for work" rejoinder in there somewhere, but I'm tired.

regards,
jazz

 

[Drizzt80]

A paper towel folded into fourths is a perfect fit for the sammich boxes.

I'll do ya one better. Bounty Quilted Napkins fit in most perfectly with none of that folding nonsense. I've never done a cost analysis to see if one is cheaper than the other.

D80

 

[Snake Dave]

Nanci, I'll laugh at you when I'm done laughing at Snake Dave about the hair dryer!
I do the seperate tub thing and clean / change water while they eat. But I don't even towel-dry their food

I will not be mocked! The next time I find something on you, you're getting it... :angry01:

And that's only for my python since she's on Repti-Bark lol. Oh and thanks for the info everyone, I think I'm gonna put newspaper down at feeding times from now on. That way I get peace of mind and I can keep the tank looking nice

All the best

David

 

[sandybunny]

I used to use the hair dryer for Maizey when I was trying to switch him back from PK to FT. Then I went to vigorously paper towel-drying till the fur was fluffy. Then a few stomachs burst open, so now I only fluff the backs...For everyone. Then slit.

Nanci

LMAO, that's gross! My snake is just social I guess. He WILL NOT eat if left alone in a container with prey. He wants to be on a white towel either on our living room floor or in a sterilite container on a white towel (lid off), and with me sitting there and watching. Every time I left him alone in a container with prey, he would curl up in the corner as if afraid. :shrugs: So, never on the aspen in his viv.

 

[diamondlil]

Mr Bonney gets fed in his tub, as he just won't eat in a seperate tub anymore. Luckily for me he can tell the difference between me reaching in to handle him and put him in a seperate tub for cleaning out, and a hot mouse dangled near his hide

 

[Tula_Montage]

I like to clean tubs while the snakes are eating, so I usually feed in separate tubs. My dwarf bci will not eat in a feeding tub, so I don't have any choice but to feed her in her living enclosure, on aspen. I dry the mouse thoroughly, but I still worry. My first corn snake died of a corn-cob bedding impaction when I was about fifteen, so I'm a little paranoid.

Switch her to newspaper substrate then? :shrugs:

 

[Drizzt80]

Luckily for me he can tell the difference between me reaching in to handle him and put him in a seperate tub for cleaning out, and a hot mouse dangled near his hide

Definitely a point that I had forgotten to add to my original response. I've only been lunged at once by a snake that thought it was feeding time when I opened it's tub. That's once in 20 years . . . For comparison, I've been bitten more times when I used to offer food items with my hand instead of a hemistat.

They can't see that well, but their smell is amazing! The difference in reaction when mouse smell is in the air is night and day.

D80

 

[JonnnyAdam]

I used to always feed mine in his tank, until one day I notice that everytime I put my hand in his tank he would come flying out of his hide thinking he was getting fed. I have been feeding both my snakes in a separate tub since and it works just fine...He has since stopped 'flying' out of his hide when I put my hand in.

As for separate tubs for each snake...I can understand why no one would want to put them in a separate tub if they own a bunch of snakes, even a few actually. Why not just use the same tub and just wipe it out after each feeding? :shrugs:

 

[desertanimal]

If you've got 15 snakes and you've got to feed them in sequence because you're using only one tub for all of them, that becomes a long feeding night.

 

[MO CORNFED]

I am leaning towards size matters at this point, I mean I feed my BP in her VIV and she has never had a problem.

My corns though I feed in the containers I got them in cause their so small. Once they reach their adult size, I might have to because I don't want to have 30 tanks around my house so that I can feed seperate.

I guess I will worry about it when the time comes. Especially since corns tend to stay small in size as to where my BP will stay fat, as long as I feed her.

 

[MegF.]

Never. If I have paper substrate I will feed in the viv, otherwise all animals, including my 700 gram adults are removed and fed in a substrate free box. The only snakes I feed in their cages that have substrate are my arboreals. They eat up in the branches, and I also use moss as a substrate. Not really a problem if some is ingested.

 

[tyflier]

All of my colubrids are fed in their enclosures, but I use newspaper substrate. Also, I tend to handle all of my snakes fairly regularly, except for the ones that are already feisty, so the whole feeding response thingy is lost on me. I just don't see it. I used to feed them all in seperate containers, and I no longer do...and there has been no changes in attitude. Now...when I open an enclosure with a dead mouse in my hands...THEN there is a different reaction.

My boa and BP are fed in the enclosures on shredded coconut fibers. I am not concerned with impaction. Quite simply, because the fibers of this are so miniscule that I find it hard to believe that a snake that can convince me there was a small dog in the cage with it's defecations would have a hard time passing hair-thin strands of fiber. I just don't see it happening when their poops are the size of my fist...

 

[Nanci]

Never. If I have paper substrate I will feed in the viv, otherwise all animals, including my 700 gram adults are removed and fed in a substrate free box.

Mine each have their own box. I can't find anywhere to put Jake's new bigger box, so it just sits on the couch. It's a 58 quart Sterilite! (If it was behind the armchair where it used to live, it would block my robot vacuum and I'd just have to move it every day!)

Nanci

 

[MegF.]

Can't block the vacuum that's for sure!!!

 

[Corny Noob]

Nope, can't say that I do.
Frankly the only time it bothers me when people do are when they've got fine particulate substate, their snake is sick and constipated, and they tell us we're wrong when we say it's probally impacted from the substrate:uhoh:

 

[Susielea]

Hatchlings I feed in their living quarters, so they don't get stressed being moved and then not feed for me. My juveniles and adults all come out into their own feeding boxes with no substrate. I use stackable plastic crates with lids that when the lids are off, they will nest inside one another for easy storage.

I have tried feeding in their vivs on newspaper or paper plates but they just look at me as if I'm stupid, because they are so used to coming out to feed. Also it gives me a chance to clean, change water etc.

My male RO will even come out of his tank and get into his box if I leave it just outside his open viv, just like my cat sits on her feeding mat waiting for her dinner! I suppose he just associates the box with food, but the whole family thinks it's funny, lol!

 

[Double het]

The snakes that are on Aspen get's fed in the viv.

That snakes that are on woodchips or are co-habbed get fed outside the viv.

 

[MegF.]

I wouldn't feed on the aspen either. I know for certain of at least one person on this forum who ended up with a snake impacted from feeding on aspen.

 

[Double het]

I never heard of such of such a thing. And lot's of people feed on aspen.

The ones that are on aspen are the ones that won't eat outside the viv. That's the reason they get luxerious beddings (It's VERY expensive over here and tough to get). But i guess always better save then sorry.