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Strike for food

Lewis25

Lewis25

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Can anyone give me tips on how to get your young corn snake to strike for food ?


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Why would you want that? Most of my young ones either do or don't. If they don't, you'll have a more gentle feeder and will get tagged far less often at feeding time. That's an upside for me.
 
I just think its kl lol it was my furst feed today and it was so interesting watching him lol first snake and defo not the last. ! Thanks guys


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I have had very few hatchlings strike at food. Usually if they do, they end up not eating because they freaked themselves out! As your snake grows and gets to larger mice he may change. I still have a lot that look at me like "that mouse is dead. Just put it down. I'm not going to pretend to kill it."
 
Most of my snakes begin striking at their food when they're eating bigger mice, like hoppers or so.
 
In Canada and the United States (and probably a few other countries) we call them as such (in accending order or size): pinkies, fuzzies, hoppers, weanlings, adults.
I have also heard hoppers be referred to as small mice, weanlings as medium mice, and adults as large mice.
 
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