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This is second hand from something I read off another snake forum, but I'd like to believe it reallly happened.

A guy own has a burmese python was buying another rabbit for feed when the check out girl said with a smile "How do you come up with names for all the rabbits you buy?"

Sure makes you want to say "Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner..." =D
 
LOL!

I can't imagine paying $20 for each food item my snake would eat, though. Why not just breed your own, rabbits breed easy enough. ;)
 
Taceas said:
LOL!

I can't imagine paying $20 for each food item my snake would eat, though. Why not just breed your own, rabbits breed easy enough. ;)
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Yeah, especially to avoid having to tell cute teenage girls who work at the pet store that you're just going home to give that cute bunny rabbit to your snake to strangle and munch down on. =D

I'm certainly no expert on burmese or retics, but as full size adults, they don't eat that often, so $20 every 45-60 days is not as bad as it sounds, I guess.
 
I am not an expert at any type of snake but i think that even burms still eat more often the every 6-8 weeks.They might go on some hunger strikes but when you get them to eat regularly i think is should be about every 2-3 weeks? Any one with a larger python care to share?
 
From another site...A burm owner fed his adult burm two-three times a year, 1 whole dead chicken each time, with no weight loss...It continued to grow in his care on this diet...

Obesity among captive large constrictors is pretty common; look around on different reptile sites and you'll see prime examples of over-indulgent keepers feeding their snakes to death...
 
I feed my large boids/pythons once a week. And thats what we do where i work.
 
cassandra said:
...just thought it was a funny story...=)
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Well, you thought WRONG! :grin01: ;)

There's a mostly aquatic pet store in my town, that I never go to. I went there once, many years ago, and I asked a staff member for a fuzzy. She told me that she couldn't sell me a mouse that young. I asked why, and she replied that they hadn't been weaned yet, and that they hadn't even started handling them. I asked her why that would matter, and it finally clicked for both of us. She then yelled at me, and told me that her store didn't serve "my kind". :grin01:
 
JenC said:
I feed my large boids/pythons once a week...
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It also depends on the species and age...I see you keep ball pythons, BCI's and a burmese...as babies/youngsters they're going to be able to be fed like you have been, but as adults they will all have different requirements for feedings...Once a week for a breeding female ball python wouldn't be unusual, but it would be a bit much for your red tails and a green burmese adult that ate an apropriate sized prey item every week would quickly be obese...
 
Roy Munson said:
She then yelled at me, and told me that her store didn't serve "my kind". :grin01:
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I guess you should have specified that it was actually for a snake. :grin01:

Mmmmm...mice :licklips:
 
I stopped in a "big box" pet store today and ended up being the one to tell the store clerk that the red tail boa in the tank with the substrate that looked like dark brown saw dust has probably been dead for a couple days. And while the substrate may not have killed the snake, based on the fact that the mouth was slightly open and filled with this "powder", it probably wasn't the best to use. Her answer was, "That's what the corporate office tells us we have to use.":shrugs:
 
dwyn127 said:
Her answer was, "That's what the corporate office tells us we have to use.":shrugs:
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Sad thing is that's right on the money. Worked at a PetCo for 2 months, summer job teacher thang, and was told that by management more than enough times for me to realize it wasn't worth the hassle to do the right thing. Some idgit sitting in an office, in a fancy building, somewhere at corporate headquarters, that maybe has a dog at home, is deciding what/when/where/why/how the animals are to be housed and cared for. It is Ridiculous (notice the capital R?!).

D80
 
I had a dork at a local pet store tell me there was someone who worked there that would probe an 11" corn hatchling for me to find out if it was male or female. I asked if he meant "pop" and he said no, they use this little metal probe. I told him that a qualified vet probably wouldn't probe a hatchling that small and I certainly wasn't going to let someone at their store do it! Who on this forum is comfortable probing an 11" hatchling?
 
Actually, I learned how to probe many years before I ever knew there was such a thing as popping. I probed literally thousands of baby corns and kings before I started popping. If memory serves, I started popping in the early '90s, but started breeding in the mid '80s. So I had to probe prior to that. AFAIK, I never injured a baby by probing. But since becoming a "popper", I have had little reason to probe babies.

We used to breed Burmese pythons back in the 90s, too. We used to feed every 2 weeks, although not every one of them ate every time. And many were either preparing to breed, recovering from breeding, or off feed while gravid.
 
I had went to Little Kritters up in Raymond, and there was a guy there that had pulled out a baby Kenyan Sand Boa (marked SOLD) to show my dad. My dad asked the guy how big it would get, and the guy said "Well this guy will probly get about 7-8ft long" When we left my dad asked me why I was laughing and i told him because the thing wont get bigger than about 12 inches.

I feel bad for the person who bought him, who expects a 7-8ft snake. :grin01:
 
cka said:
It also depends on the species and age...I see you keep ball pythons, BCI's and a burmese...as babies/youngsters they're going to be able to be fed like you have been, but as adults they will all have different requirements for feedings...Once a week for a breeding female ball python wouldn't be unusual, but it would be a bit much for your red tails and a green burmese adult that ate an apropriate sized prey item every week would quickly be obese...
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Funny cuz the 18ft retics i work with eat once a week and are only fat cuz they are gravid :shrugs:
 
JenC said:
Funny cuz the 18ft retics i work with eat once a week and are only fat cuz they are gravid :shrugs:
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But I bet you aren't feeding them goats once a week, either lol...I dunno, definately not a "big snake expert" here either...Love to see some big 'tic pics, Jen :*)
 
If i end up going down there today i will definately bring my camera:) But if this snow keeps up i dont think my rents would let me go.

And no...we dont feed em goats lol
 
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My story isnt to exciting. I went to a local pet shop to buy some fuzzies. They sell them in freezer packs of 25. He comes back with a baggie of large pinks. Again, I tell him I need fuzzies, so he says "oh the ones that are hoppers?" Im like "Sure..." He comes back with fuzzies. :bang:
 
i got some frozen pinks from a chain petstore in town. fortunately you can just grab what you want from their freezer. when i went to pay for them, the cashier asked "so what are you feeding these too?"
i said "my reptiles." her face kinda turned green as she carefully picked up the bag of pinks. she looked like she really didnt even want to touch them at all.
so dont work at a pet store if the food grosses you out.
 
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