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| JanieW |
Posted - 16/01/2012 : 09:32:50
I need some advice 
Fea is possibly a little slimmer than Slinky but he is taking medium mice with very little effort..from strike to swallowed around 8 mins.
Slinky on the other hand, although he hasn't refused a feed, swallows it evetually, he seems to struggle. He coils with no problem but after he finds an end, quite often the wrong end lol he takes ages to actually swallow it down.
Then he goes still when most of the mouse is down, leaning backwards, and once lost his balance and fell backwards!
That scared the hell outta me, the process can take an hour and he's only on small mice.
For his size he should be on mediums, or a fuzzy rat, is this unusual or quite normal?
Hopefully i'm worrying for nothing. |
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| JanieW |
Posted - 16/01/2012 : 11:41:14
Thank you :)
Yea he's a chubby little snake 440g last night, empty before his mouse. He better eat the rest of his smalls lol then on to mediums. |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 16/01/2012 : 11:38:09
Hard to tell over the internet, just use BE's feeding guide of 10%-15% snakes bodyweight for food that's what I always use, long as the rat isn't any wider than the snakes body it should be fine :) |
| JanieW |
Posted - 16/01/2012 : 11:32:25
lmao Kelf!
So he'd be fine moving up to mediums? |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 16/01/2012 : 10:42:36
That's normal enough, Pandora is massive and old and still takes an eternity to eat, Angel is always falling over while eating but I put that down to her being spider and cleo takes ages to eaat too, often from the wrong end. They're just dumb animals lol |
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