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How not to feed your corn snake

nebby3103

nebby3103

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Hey there. I came across a video of someone feeding their corn on YouTube the other day. I thought it illustrated quite well what not to do when feeding your corn. Despite this guy's best efforts, it looks like his snake still swallows some bark. Tsk, tsk... Hope the new(er) folks find this useful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InbINtFxVJ8&search=corn snake mouse

Oh yea, and take note of the comments. The guy who posted the video loves it; the other guy is right...
 
I'm confused . . . other than a few flakes of bedding, what was the problem with the way the snake was being fed? :shrugs: Seemed like a pretty conscientious owner to me actually taking the time to pick off what he could while it was eating. I know this will probably start up a whole issue of feeding in cage vs. out, etc., but other than ingesting a few bits of substrate, what was wrong? I thought the meal looked small myself, and the snake a bit skinny, so maybe he needs to feed more? :shrugs: Besides, I've seen/heard of worse feeding situations than that.

D80
 
Not talking down on anyone, but maybe some of the newer people to the hobbie have just heard of all the horror sotries about impaction and do not realize how tuff corns our and that it will most likly take more then that and that it happens in the wild probobly close to everytime they eat in the wild.
 
cornsnakekid92 said:
Not talking down on anyone, but maybe some of the newer people to the hobbie have just heard of all the horror sotries about impaction and do not realize how tuff corns our and that it will most likly take more then that and that it happens in the wild probobly close to everytime they eat in the wild.
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It's probably safe to assume that the guy feeds his snake that way every time based on the comments he made. You mean to tell me that that can't add up and cause come problems? Maybe even some major ones?

Drizzt80 said:
I'm confused . . . other than a few flakes of bedding, what was the problem with the way the snake was being fed?
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I think you hit the nail on the head. That is the problem. I didn't mean to indicate there were any other problems. Eating substrate is bad, right? At least, that's what I was told by 99% of the people here when I joined this forum. Now I'm confused...
 
Well I think its better to be safe than sorry. I think the owner is slightly ignorant to just say "its ok if the snake eats a few woodchips. it will just go through.".

Why even give it a choice to eat on woodchips? Just use a dish. It's not like it's effort.
 
Yeah but if you were usually using a dish, you'd be doing it for those particular reasons. You wouldn't take it away for friends. I am fairly confident in thinking this is the method he always uses.
 
true i agree. but i seriously think he was doing it for fun to. "oh its ok the bark will fall off" i felt bad for the snake
 
I can just picture this:
Mom: Son, where did you put those cooking tongs? I need to use them to cook this chicken.
Son: Oh, hold on, I was just using them in the other room.
 
i feel soo bad for that poor snake. he actually swallowed A LOT of substrate, and that is never good. :cry:
 
I think it might have been a little different if it was Aspen but that was straight up bark and that stuff is hard...Hopefully he regurged it, but thats something we wont ever know...Poor snake, i know the kid tried to get as much out, but he should research it not just assume its ok...
 
i feel so bad for that poor snake! last time i checked, wood was not digestable! i hope he regurgtated it!
 
aswell he just put it there, wiht the size of the snake its better if you hsake it around, at least that way the snake gets execrice when it constricts, poor thin, looked to small for it
 
xavusangel said:
but he should research it not just assume its ok...
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Many snake owners research is whatever their LPS tells them. I'm sure that this guy probably just bought it from petco (or something) and the sales people just told him to drop a mouse in every week or so and to change it's water once a week. And that was probably all the advice he got.

Many people on here I'm sure did what they would now consider stupid stuff with their corns before they knew better. I know I did. It's a learning process, so before totally coming down on a random video just relax and remember that every expert was once a beginner.

However, deliberately ignoring advice or keeping your corn (or any animal) in in a sub standard way once you know better is absolutely unacceptable.
 
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