• 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.

New Corn - First Feeding Question

ALGeckos

ALGeckos

Aimee & Leon
So yesterday, Leon and I bought our new corn snake, Wendell. After dropping off Leon to work, I head in to PetCo for a quick pick-up of frozen mice. I was so excited and was thinking of the other reptiles I picked up, that I got 2 frozen small pinkies @ ~2g/each.

Then I get home and weigh in Wendell at 25 grams. Big enough to be fed small fuzzies @ 5-7g! Would it be alright to feed Wendell both of the frozen pinkies I bought for his first feeding, then switch back to a small fuzzy after 5 days for the 2nd feeding?

He's getting comfy in his new home, so I don't plan to re-handle him and feed him until Tuesday night.

Thanks!
 
To be honest, I would wait a day or two more to let him settle in be for I would feed. Then feed in a low lit room in a separated vent container, without disturbing the snake. But the pinky I think would be good to start with. Then move up from there.
 
To answer your question, yes you can feed both pinkies for the first meal until you are able to get fuzzies. The best way that I have found is to offer one than wait about 5 or so mins and offer the second one. You don't want to offer the second one if the first is still really close to his mouth. I found where the spot where the pinkie stops moving and it sits there, thankfully there is a big spot on the snake in that same area so I can find it each time but when it reaches that point I know that I can feed the second one. Try to find the spot where the food stops moving downward, it's your best bet to know when you can feed the second one.

Good luck. I hope your feeding goes well. Let us know afterward!
 
Thank you Lennycorn & NFS07! I will try both of your techniques and move the feeding day to Wednesday or Thursday night instead of Tuesday so he isn't stressed out :) I'll let you guys know how it goes!

Thanks again :D
 
I fed two 2-3g pinkies to Wendell today and he took them in quickly with no problem. I also noticed that he'd rather take them in a plastic cup than from a dish or tweezers :p

Next feeding will be a small fuzzy, now that I know his weight.

Just an update! I'm happy :)
 
Yes, I fed him in a separate container.

Even though I read about a lot of people doing well with feeding inside the viv, I don't want him to think that me opening his enclosure means food. And just in case he decides to move off the dish, I don't want him accidentally swallowing some pieces of substrate. I also plan on handling him first since I won't be handling him for 48-72 hours after feeding. :)

I'm glad he did well and he'll be moving on up to small fuzzies in the next feeding! :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top