Interesting...

[Ophiuchus]

... Gus my male, he is a great eater. You just wiggle the mouse in front of him and he strikes and eats.

The new girl, Voltaire, I fed today. She didn't want to do anything with the wiggling dead thing. I set it down in the direction she was slithering and when she got to it, she sniffed and chomped.

Is that normal for her to not recognize food while it is moving, but to eat it while it is still?

I am assuming it is just how she was always fed since she was young.


It is funny though Gus, he knows when it is feeding day! I bring the mice in the room and as soon as he smells it he gets ready to strike. Wham! It scared me the first time I fed him, lol.

 

[Ophiuchus]

Opsie! I meant to post this in the Feeding board. Not the Feeder.

Sorry about that, if a moderator would move it? Thank you!

 

[epicdoom]

perfectly normal.behavior I have some that like it moving some that dont and some that want it in the dark only I have one sanke that likes to push the pinky around before he eats it.he will nose it around for 10 min sometimes

 

[Ophiuchus]

Hehe, Okay, that helps me not worry about it so much.

 

[Zombiegirl]

My first corn Rune was an eating machine...never refused a meal, and would eat it wiggled or not. The two I have now are similar. Kiyo likes to get her nose right up on the mouse and then she "gently" (for a snake lol) takes the mouse and takes her time...she is a lady yanno...Omnom is a SHARK!...as soon as he smells the food it's on lol...I have never seen a snake eat as fast as he does. He is my special needs baby (has several kinks) but they don't seem to slow him down much (the neck kink kinda slows him down a bit but I am always watching him to make sure they go down ok)

 

[buckmaster299]

my corn snake does this same thing. He only likes his food warm and dead. not moving. i thought it was odd also when I first seen it.

 

[hypnoctopus]

My first corn did not (and still will not) take the food if I jiggle it in front of her face. She likes me just to plop it down and then she'll get right to it. Another of my corns loves to have the mouse jiggled and he'll strike at it ever time (although he'll also eat it if it's just laying there).

 

[Christen]

Is that normal for her to not recognize food while it is moving, but to eat it while it is still?

Yes this is very normal. I have even found sometimes with shy babies it will discourage them to eat at all if I jiggle. So all of my hatchling's I do not jiggle at all. If they don't eat I will try scenting methods before jiggling or the slap tease method.

Some times that will change as they get older and some times they are just calm eaters.

My first corn did not (and still will not) take the food if I jiggle it in front of her face. She likes me just to plop it down and then she'll get right to it. Another of my corns loves to have the mouse jiggled and he'll strike at it ever time (although he'll also eat it if it's just laying there).

This cracks me up about Wilma. Both mom and dad will tag you if you don't make sure your fingers are out of the way. Her big brother and sisters are the same way. And since she was a good eater from the get go I just assumed she would turn into an excited eater like them. She knows she has it good and her Momma will feeder her so what is the hurry.

 

[bitsy]

All of mine have been eating warmed defrosted mice on their own from the get-go. My elderly male once went through a six month patch where he would only eat if he was tease fed with tongs, but this eventually wore off and he's been eating normally ever since.

 

[JennaJ]

Sneak has eaten most of her mice from the floor of her tank/feeding bin (necessitated in the beginning, since when she was a hatchling she liked her privacy ), but when I started offering a 2nd item for some of her meals, she proved willing to take from the tongs, too. With snakes having such varied personalities, I'm not too surprised they have eating preferences or become accustomed to certain things.