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the pet store guy said you can feed it feeder fish?
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l0ck_0ff
USMC Semper Fi
yes i did he fed all the animals and yes it was maybe 4 months old
bapkate
Katherine
Ok, so corn snakes may be physically able to eat a fish if they are very hungry (and hatchlings always are), but they won't all of the nutrients they need from fish.
bapkate
Katherine
won't 'get' all of the nutrients that is. Hah.
medusacoils
Mr. Enigma!
I have heard of and read that you can feed a corn snake feeder fish. They may even eat them in the wild?!?! So it's not out of the realm of possibility. :shrugs: I have never tried it, nor do I really want to. I'll stick to the assortment of feeder rodents, I have.
Wayne
Wayne
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wstphal
working in the Gulag
I read ~somewhere~ that some feeder fish are actually harmful. Somebody who has garters probably knows more. Anyway, f/t rodents are easier. If someone really believes in variety, there are rats, ASFs, etc to change the diet, or frozen chicks too. Feeder fish would just be too much work!
I'm sticking with f/t mice for now, but if I had a rodent colony I might mix in ASFs or rats (I get the impression that since rats are richer in fat, they might be good for females before breeding, as long as the female gets plenty of exercise so she is muscular & well-nourished, not flabby & obese).
I'm sticking with f/t mice for now, but if I had a rodent colony I might mix in ASFs or rats (I get the impression that since rats are richer in fat, they might be good for females before breeding, as long as the female gets plenty of exercise so she is muscular & well-nourished, not flabby & obese).
salvadorian
creatures are people too!
To answer your question briefly: no. Not true. Corn snakes should not eat feeder fish. Why ask for advice if you don't accept it? Pet stores are infamous for mistreating their animals.
crackerhead
Hug Free Zone
I have "seen", defined as first hand knowledge, corn snakes eat mice, rats, chipmunks, parakeets, chicks, gerbils, goldfish, eggs, crickets, lizards, hatchling snakes, moles, voles, salamanders, button quail, African Soft Coated Rats, substrate of all kinds and fingers. Okay, so the last one didn't count because they spit it out. LOL This does not mean all those "food" items are appropriate. Even humans eat things that are not acceptable food items. It's called Pica and is considered a problem. In all honesty I could eat goldfish too but I probably wouldn't thrive on them.
Terri
PS - Where in IL are you from?
Terri
PS - Where in IL are you from?
Teddy Roosevelt
i loev cronsankes
Worth mentioning that some feeder fish (goldfish jump to mind but a garter snake care sheet might list more) contain thiaminase, a sugar that is harmful to snakes. Mice, however, don't. Are you asking because you have an issue feeding frozen mice? Are you aware that you can buy them frozen, even? I know some people who are under the impression snakes can only eat live food, is why I ask.
kathylove
Pragmatic & Logical
My friend's toddler has eaten some very strange things, lol! But she doesn't let him do it intentionally! I would imagine that a fish or cricket wouldn't REALLY hurt the snake, anymore than the toddler eating some random grass he picked up would be injured by it. But fish (and crickets) are not considered "normal" food for corns. So I would not normally offer it to them.
BTW, I have tried fish on a few occasions for non feeding babies, hoping that their little brains might recognize SOMETHING as food, which could then be scented on baby mice. A few people actually had success with fish for non feeders, but it never worked for me. So I stopped trying, since I don't normally have fish here, anyway.
BTW, I have tried fish on a few occasions for non feeding babies, hoping that their little brains might recognize SOMETHING as food, which could then be scented on baby mice. A few people actually had success with fish for non feeders, but it never worked for me. So I stopped trying, since I don't normally have fish here, anyway.
ZoologyGirl
Under Tank Heather
A corn snake will probably eat a feeder fish (as you say you seen), but that doesn't mean it is a food it will thrive on.
I can eat chocolate all day, but it's not going to give me all the nutrients, etc... that I need.
I can eat chocolate all day, but it's not going to give me all the nutrients, etc... that I need.
Kali
lost cause
WHAT ?? :crying:
ZoologyGirl
Under Tank Heather
:rofl: I know, it's depressing isn't it.
wade
Save The Humans
This is a reprint but it seems to fit here as well.
I have appointed myself the self appointed advocate of thought. Thought is something we used to do before we had the Internet. I’m sure you have heard about it. It often went hand in hand with reading. People in the old days would get a book and read about a subject and then think about what they had read. Sometimes they would even make decisions based on their thoughts.
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This is my opinion. I hope you will give it some thought.
I have appointed myself the self appointed advocate of thought. Thought is something we used to do before we had the Internet. I’m sure you have heard about it. It often went hand in hand with reading. People in the old days would get a book and read about a subject and then think about what they had read. Sometimes they would even make decisions based on their thoughts.
The Internet is not in itself inherently bad. The problem is that we have allowed it to take the place of thought. We read things on the Internet and except them for facts without giving them any thought of our own. Sometimes we forget that most of what we read on the Internet was written by bored teenagers.
In the old days it was quite difficult to publish your thoughts into a form that could then be distributed to the general public. First you had to go to the effort of compiling your thoughts into a written form that could be read and comprehended by others. That is a pretty major task. Then you had to find a publisher who would take the time to read your thoughts, and convince him that your thoughts were of enough value to invest thousands of dollars in. Once you had a book published, you had to convince the public that your thoughts had enough merit that they should spend their money and buy your book, and spend their time reading and thinking about your book.
Today all you have to do is click on CS.com and say, “Hey, I heard pine shavings were bad and feeding goldfish was good.” Thousands of people around the world are now telling their friends what they read on the internet.
This is my opinion. I hope you will give it some thought.
Tavia
Elemental Exotics
Gold fish, rosy reds & a number of others I can't remember off the top of my head are not good for snakes. Most pet stores don't know this & do feed their fish eating snakes those kinds of fish. They have an enzyme called thiaminase, it dissolves vitamine B1, if fed enough of those types of fish, the snake will become B1 deficient & if not treated the snake will eventually die.