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redtallica

redtallica

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I was just wondering why some snake owners use a seperate tank when feeding there corns, I just put the mice in the snakes tank and she never refuses them.

Should I be feeding her in a seperate tank ?
 
It is mostly done as a preventative measure.

By feeding in a separate, sterile container (one without substrate), you can ensure that the snake doesn't accidentally ingest a piece of bedding along with the mouse. Wood substrates are sharp and irregular. Should the snake swallow a piece, it could easily perforate the snake's digestive tract.
 
Another reason is so the snake doesn't associate the opening of it's living quarters with food. I have many snakes that lunge wildly out when ever their tub is pulled open. I don't have the time to feed in separate containers, way too many to do that.
 
redtallica (is that a play off "Metallica" by chance?),

I feed in a seperate container for the reasons both CAV and Clint have stated. I feed in a large Sterlite container lined with paper toweling. If you're feeding live (as I am) lining it with paper towels also helps clean up any excrement that the mouse may leave behind.

I started out feeding in the viv, but only did so twice after learning that the snake may come to associate your hand in the viv to mean "meal time", thereby increasing your chances of the snake striking at your hand.

*** Just a side note...Ren has come to realize that a small brown box (the kind the mice come in) means feeding time. Went into a frenzy 2 days ago when I brought the box over to his Sterlite feeding container...struck at sides of container as I was trying to open the box! Whoa there!
 
I fed inside my tank (reptibark substrate), only I would put the mouse in a paper bag, and when I was ready to feed I'd put the snake in the bag and put the bag in the tank. That didn't make any problems with ingesting the substrate, and he only associated the paper bag with supper.
 
I did feed outside of the viv. But now I recently changed my substrate to paper towels, where she feeds in her viv now. To me its easier, I just drop the pinkies in the viv.

I used to worry about her associating my hand with food, but I think holding her as much as I do, breaks that type of thinking from her.
 
i personally have never ever had a problem with any of my snakes thinking my hand is food and ive always fed in their viv's, i use substrate also, however the mouse does not touch it, my male takes the mouse's head as i hold its tail with tweezers and i keep hold of the tail until hes nearly there, none of mine are agressive when its feeding time. the others i place the mouse on their logs on on their rocks and they eat them from there. :)
however all snakes are different, its how their personalities are. this is just the way it works for me and my little darlings.
:)
 
If you feed in the cage, the reaction of the snake will vary depending on the snake. With most of mine it doesn't seem to make any difference. I have some that as soon as you start to open the container, they immediately poke their head to the front of the cage just waiting to grab the mouse before it hits the floor of the cage. None of mine ever go after my hand if I don't have a mouse in it, but I have had one or two times that one will miss a mouse and accidentally give a nip on the hand.

Mark
 
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