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stumpy
Yearling
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 13/06/2011 : 10:42:21
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Finally Zuri and Izzy have eaten, after 5 weeks, but not how they usually have them, after tangling on tongs for hours I gave up, cleared out the aspen for a space and left on top of hides, Izzy came immediately and ate, Zuri about 1 he later dragged into hide checked later and gone, dont like doing this but needs must.
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n/a
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Posted - 13/06/2011 : 11:55:19
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Congrats - yes, I think the corn girls are now getting their appetites back, and glad Zuri's doing the same.
I don't really like feeding in-viv either, but most of mine make it plain that that's the way they want it. I used to be totally paranoid about the aspen thing. I know loads of people say it's an overrated worry, but still I really didn't want my snakes feeding anywhere near it - until I got Ziska. There is no way I can stop that girl from dragging her rat anywhere she likes in the viv, and if I brought her out into a feeding rub she'd be in such a state I doubt if she'd even notice the rat!
With the others there's a couple of tricks I try. The first is to put a pet feeding mat or similar, newspaper would do, over the aspen underneath the snake's favourite hide a couple of hours before feeding, then replace snake and hide so that snake can settle before its meal. Then I can present the prey at the mouth of the hide. Some of them go up on to their climbing branches when I disturb them; in fact Shahi won't feed anywhere else now. The other thing I do is to put the prey into a small lidded rub with a hole in one side, like a moss hide and put it in the viv. The snake goes in after the prey, coils and stays in there until she's eaten. Cy is a well-behaved girl who eats politely off a sheet of kitchen roll, and then goes to sleep underneath her 'tablecloth.'
But the days of the feeding rubs (snakes' dining rooms lol) were much easier! However, as long as they're eating ...besotted snake SLAVE, that's me. |
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reptilemadd
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13/06/2011 : 14:10:13
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| I started feeding in viv way back when, with my first corn untill he decided to eat one or two beech chips, now in the wild they must eat all sorts along with there prey items but even this knowledge never made me feel any better while i was watching the chippings going down lol, so ever since then I've used feeding boxes and it was always funny watching the change in there behaviour, in the viv all nice and calm as soon as they were in there feeding tubs they were as giddy as a school girl lol, looking at me tongues going ten to the dozen always reminded me of the seagulls from finding nemo,(mine,mine,mine lmao) |
1.0.0 beardie "magic"
1.1.0 100% Het Clown "Cerberus" and "Artemis"
0.1.0 Poss Calico "Ariadne"
1.0.0 Lesser " Kronos"
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