Feeding Tips

[tigger79]

Originally Posted by Dexter

Make sure it's wearing a seat belt

and if its less than 135cm make sure its sat on a booster seat - dont want u getting a £500 fine

[CB89]

SPAM!---- beat you to it!

[chondro13]

YAY!! My boiga has been off his food for about 6 - 8 weeks now, just put a chick skin on his rat and he took it last night I know it was probably just a winter fast.. but you know.. yay!

[gabriel123]

HI! I have a five yr old corn who is always feed in his viv and i have never had any problems with him and he has never biten anyone even though he has been fed by hand from a hatchling. My boyfriend has recently bought a stunning royal (ball) python. he has little experience of snakes and keeps saying he needs to put the snake in a feeding box to feed him. I think this unnecassary and the snake should be feed from tongs in his cage. Is it best to use a feeding box with royal pythons?

[dannie]

what about if you've tried all of these things but my amozon still isn't feeding. what to do then?????

[tigger79]

well if you have tried all of the methods, then its down to the last option which will put food in its belly as you are assist/force feeding it

[Optikal]

My mexi black refuses to eat at the minute. Since I bought him from Rach, he reluctantly ate a small rat on the third of april. Since then he's refused everything offered. I've tried the car trick, braining, warming it up, cooling it down, I even pinched a bag of bedding from my mothers pets to try the 'nest' trick. He just won't eat though.

I'm going to nip out today and buy a few fluffs and see if he'll take them. If not, I might have to try live...

[Optikal]

Okay, so he's not interested in fluffs either. So I'm thinking of trying him on a live rodent in the next few days. What's the procedure? Do i just got to a shop and buy one from their pet section? Do I have to quarantine the mouse before hand? any advice appreciated.

[tigger79]

read the tips - 2 weeks is nothing and is too short a period to try all tricks and will cause the snake stress if you do try

i would recommend you leave the snake alone for 2 weeks just change water every 3 days, then offer a feed

also how often are u trying to feed the snake.

[Optikal]

Originally Posted by tigger79

read the tips - 2 weeks is nothing and is too short a period to try all tricks and will cause the snake stress if you do try

i would recommend you leave the snake alone for 2 weeks just change water every 3 days, then offer a feed

also how often are u trying to feed the snake.

I was trying every 2 days. He fed when I first got him and was advised that he was usually once a week but was previously bought as underweight so needed a bit more feeding up.

03/04 - He ate small rat

10/04 - I offered him a second to no avail. So I brained it and left it in the viv overnight.

12/04 - I tried him on a chick thinking a change might be in order. He was interested at first, but only in what it was, not in eating it.

14/04 - Took him for a short drive. Tried him with a mouse, with a bit of bedding in the corner.

17/04 - Tried him with fluffs, again left in overnight.

I'll take your advice and leave off for a another week or two. I'm just a bit concerned that he was previously underfed and whilst he is still active and curious, he has a ridge running along his back. Also, I've never had a kingsnake that wasn't voracious with feeding so it threw me a bit.