Pounding his first rat!

Finally sizing Magnus up to rat pups. It looks GIGANTIC next to him, but it's the appropriate mass percentage for his size, so I guess I shouldn't be worried. He's eager enough, anyway-- I gave him a rat fuzzy a while back because I couldn't get a mouse, and both rats have given me his best feeding responses yet.

I have a video of him trying to figure out which end is more appetizing. Haha. I'll post it if I get enough encouragement. (I am very self-conscious about my voice...)

Post the video! I'll just put it on mute if you sound like a creep! :p

Congrats on getting him to eat :gj:

He's got an awful lot of substrate in his mouth after feeding, he's a messy eater... I think I'm going to move him off the cocofiber with his next substrate change... Is there anything I can do to help him out? I know it won't hurt him, it just looks uncomfortable...

Looks like he worked through it. Time for a nap, lol.

i'll try to figure out how to post video...

http://youtu.be/cVAUWjbGt3E

Here's the video! I narrated a bit. :3

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Originally Posted by Archimedes

He's got an awful lot of substrate in his mouth after feeding, he's a messy eater... I think I'm going to move him off the cocofiber with his next substrate change... Is there anything I can do to help him out? I know it won't hurt him, it just looks uncomfortable...

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The cocofiber wont hurt him. He could eat a whole mouthful and be fine. I'd leave him on that if it works well for you.

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Originally Posted by Archimedes

http://youtu.be/cVAUWjbGt3E

Here's the video! I narrated a bit. :3

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Yea that substrate shouldn't hurt him at all. Did he end up eating it ass end first?

EDIT: your voice sounded pretty normal to me. The phone makes my voice sound deeper. I think it sounds higher on camera. Idk though, i've never made a video of my snakes before lol.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Yea that substrate shouldn't hurt him at all. Did he end up eating it ass end first?

EDIT: your voice sounded pretty normal to me. The phone makes my voice sound deeper. I think it sounds higher on camera. Idk though, i've never made a video of my snakes before lol.

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I actually helped him out with finding its head, shook it off with the feeding tongs. He ended up taking it like a proper snake. Lol he did get a pretty good mouthful of substrate though. Got it out by biting at his rock hide lol. Scraped it off his own gums.

I'm not sure exactly what phones and cameras do to my voice, or maybe I'm just delusional about the way I sound and the media is right. Haha.

How cute! He looked so confused, even after biting it! He just couldn't figure it out! xD
I wish I could watch Dovah actually eat his rats, he always constricts them for like 10 mins, then drags them into his hide to eat ._.
I use coco fiber too, I love the way it looks, and it's safe for them to ingest and won't lodge into their gums like wood... the only thing I don't love about it though it that it likes to stick to everything!



All microphones make me sound like a guy! My voice gets super deep and I hate hearing myself D:
I usually fix that by adding music in the background of videos that don't really need the original sound :P

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Originally Posted by Kat_Dog

How cute! He looked so confused, even after biting it! He just couldn't figure it out! xD
I wish I could watch Dovah actually eat his rats, he always constricts them for like 10 mins, then drags them into his hide to eat ._.
I use coco fiber too, I love the way it looks, and it's safe for them to ingest and won't lodge into their gums like wood... the only thing I don't love about it though it that it likes to stick to everything!



All microphones make me sound like a guy! My voice gets super deep and I hate hearing myself D:
I usually fix that by adding music in the background of videos that don't really need the original sound :P

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Oh my gosh, this is nothing-- way back when I resorted to a rat fuzzy instead of his normal mouse, this was when he was like 4 months old, he actually bit his own self twice after he coiled-- he was too excited and covered in rat-smell, so of course he mistook his back for the rat's face, lmao. He learned quick from that hahaha. No self-biting this time, so overall improvement in cognitive reasoning :P
Magnus never strays far from where he made the kill-strike. That's wasting time before he can get it in his belly :P
I do really like the cocofiber with the exception of feeding-time. But that's just because I'm overprotective and don't like to see him stressed out. He's always anxious with the residual mouthful of substrate. We only just started doing in-tank feedings a few weeks ago, so it's still a bit disconcerting.