What a beast.

So when i went to pick up my mice and rats today i decided to buy an extra mouse and see if my male pastel Zeus would eat an extra one, hes about 200g so i figured i would give it a try. He seemed interested in the second one at first but then he became head shy all of a sudden. It was clear it wasn't going to happen. So after trying to feed the extra mouse to my two bigger BPs (who would have nothing to do with a meal so tiny) i was debating what to do with the mouse. I figured I would try to give it to my female spider Ember (who is a little smaller than Zeus), but wasn't expecting her to even be interested because she had just eaten and is usually pretty shy. She is the LAST one i thought would take it but she did :O
I couldn't believe it. I feel like i got that much closer to bees tonight :P
Just thought i'd share. Thanks for reading my long story. :)

Don't you love it. I have 4 that will eat anything you drop in front of them and whenever. Just got to Becarfull not to power feed them.

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Originally Posted by Driver

Don't you love it. I have 4 that will eat anything you drop in front of them and whenever. Just got to Becarfull not to power feed them.

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Yea this was probably pushing it a little bit, but she hadn't eaten in a while so i wasn't too worried. Also i figure they don't have anybody in the wild telling them what they can and can't eat so if she eats it she will most likely be fine. I weighed the mice and it was just pushing it a little for her weight. I was really happy she ate it though, like i said.. was not expecting that at all. :)

Yeah, with these eating machines, you've got to be extra careful not to power feed them... YOUR FINGERS.

I had the same thing happen 2weeks ago. My male (1500+gr) eats a medium rat a week, my female (800+gr) was eatting a small rat. I left the feeding to my wife due to her wanting to do more with the snakes.. Long story short I came into the room with my female feasting on the med rat...lol.. Never would have guessed she'd taken on such a big meal...:snake::O

I have a male normal that eats like that too, last time I fed him I came out of the room and told my girlfriend that he would probably try to eat a frozen one if I dangled it in front of him.

My lil lesser is a beast too, earlier this week he had a 23g mouse and then my dumeril's refused a 22g one so I offered it to him, he snagged and downed it like it was nothing... and he's only 85g. I wouldn't make a habit of feeding like that but it was better than tossing it cause he was the only other in quarantine that could use it.

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Originally Posted by devildog_dk

I have a male normal that eats like that too, last time I fed him I came out of the room and told my girlfriend that he would probably try to eat a frozen one if I dangled it in front of him.

My lil lesser is a beast too, earlier this week he had a 23g mouse and then my dumeril's refused a 22g one so I offered it to him, he snagged and downed it like it was nothing... and he's only 85g. I wouldn't make a habit of feeding like that but it was better than tossing it cause he was the only other in quarantine that could use it.

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Yea they know what they are doing better than we do, I think if they feed like that then they probably have the metabolism to deal with it. But again I agree with not making a habit out of it. Gotta love a hungry snake though, especially with these picky BPs. :D