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Update on scout the black rat snake

Carinata

Carinata

Ever Evolving Exotics
Well I she is doing better she ate 7 mice in about a week. And today she refused a pinkie but i belive it is because she ate 3 on friday. I fed her so much because she had not eaten in 4 months. I hope she is back o normal.
 
whippet said:
You should not feed that many mice to help her "catch up" that will make her sick. Stop doing that ASAP and just feed normally.
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"You cannot give Reputation to the same post twice."

Absolutely right, whippet! Just feed your snake normally and it will "catch up" just fine. Power feeding is dangerous and a bad idea.
 
OK she is about 18 inches so she could take three a week. But i will feed her sunday eveing with all the other snakes.
 
No...where are you getting that idea? ONE a week is all they need. Please research a little to ensure the best health for this little guy.
 
Once again, whippet has hit the nail on the head. Your snake will grow to full size in good time. If you try to push it too fast, it may become sick and/or die.
 
thats probably because breeders power feed to get their snakes to breeding size quicker. it's in no way healthy for your snake.
 
Ok thanks for the tip she just pooed and it looked normal. Manye she hibernated her self. my friends leucy texas does that. all he has to do is put a folded towl in there and turn the heat off and boom
 
BobbyHill said:
...uhh, what?
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.....I think she may have hibernated heself becaue it got warm enough to see snakes out and about last week when she went back on feed. And i'm gonna hibernate a bunch of my snakes next year too. Like my friend oes with his leucy TRS
 
I am not getting what you are saying about hibernating him, generally you only brumate once a year and NEVER immediatly after you feed. I think it is fine to feed a snake that is a foot and a half 2-3 pinks a week. I have a pair of 08 licorace sticks and they happily eat 2 pinks every 5-7 days. You have to remember that black ratsnakes are among the largest north american colubrids and sometimes reach 8 feet but at a foot and a half I would venture to say a cornsnake could handle 2-3 pinks.
 
snakemaster24 said:
.....I think she may have hibernated heself becaue it got warm enough to see snakes out and about last week when she went back on feed. And i'm gonna hibernate a bunch of my snakes next year too. Like my friend oes with his leucy TRS
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Just because a snake went off food, does not mean it hibernated. It is a normal occurance for snakes to go off food during the winter months and begin eating well again come spring. Your snake would have only hibernated, had you done so yourself (fasting, lowering temps, reduced daylight).

I'm not sure if you mean you are feeding several times a week, or the snake is taking larger feedings. Double pinks every 5-7 days is fine.
 
danny819 said:
but at a foot and a half I would venture to say a cornsnake could handle 2-3 pinks.
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2-3 every week or so for an appropriate sized corn is one thing

but 7 mice in a week?
3 pinks on friday...and then wondering why it won't eat another one 2 days later.

:shrugs:
 
snakemaster24 said:
well she lost half her body weight
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It doesn't matter if she lost half her body weight (Btw, how do you know that? I didn't think you had a scale...), seven mice in a week is outrageous! Just consider yourself lucky that you haven't made her ill/regurge! Imagine that you got a bad case of the flu (or other illness that makes you not want to eat) and when you started feeling better your parents made you eat a big 7 course meal right away....pretty sure you'd be throwing up shortly after.....

Stop over feeding her to 'catch up' on the lost meals and just feed her normally. A snake her size should be able to handle double pinks (or possibly single small fuzzies) every 5-7 days.

Example: my babies eat pinks every 5 days, then progress to large pinks every 5 days, then to peach fuzzies every 5 days. Once they are on fuzzies they go to once a week feedings, which continue through hoppers and weanlings. Once feeding on adults, feedings are moved to every 10-14 days, depending on what is needed to keep them at a healthy weight (the exception to this is when they are coming up from brumation or recovering from illness, they eat more frequent meals, about once every five days to a week, to get back to pre-brum or pre-illness weight).
 
snakemaster24 said:
she took em on her own for one thing. And second Im just glad she is better!
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You shouldn't have even offered them. I'm willing to bet that all of my snakes, if given the opportunity, would eat everything I put in front of them, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go home tonight and thaw out 5 hoppers for each of my '07s or 3 pinks for my '08s.

And just because she ate doesn't necessarily mean she's 'better'. You don't know why she was off food to begin with. Maybe she was just being moody and didn't want to eat. Maybe she was sick (since you didn't take her to the vet there would be no way of knowing) or had/has a heavy parasite load.
 
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