What a thrill! my first snake feeding

:) ah man how very cool!
my ball named Bengal had its first pinkie tonight since i made them feed it b4 leaving the store last Saturday
its about 18in and CB, it was the liveliest one in the tank and the brightest colored i might add, i felt good about buying from this store as they deal in exotics mostly and actually list the latin names on the tanks, thats a rareity, i have looked :cry:
Bengal had only been in the store 4 days, real freshy, b4 i snatched it up
ne ways i thought the first feeding was momentus and worth a camera session, so here you go
my cam is only a 1.2MP dino, though i am pleased with how it turned out :)

http://home.iprimus.com.au/rwebber/Bengal6.jpg

awesome! i didnt get to see mine eat his 1st meal, thats a great pic!
-jess

Awesome picture, and congrats on the first feeding. I would suggest a larger prey item next time, ball pythons can eat fuzzies or small mice as hatchlings. You should also try feeding fresh killed or frozen thawed if you haven't already. Welcome to the site!

Great picture!
Do what Gen said. They can eat a mouse as babies.

First off ... Welcome to the site! Glad to have you join us :)! Your little guy/girl could probably eat a bigger prey item. As long as the prey item, be it rat or mouse, is just about as big as the widest part of the snake .. its a good size. Are you feeding live, pre-killed, or f/t? That is a good pic tho :)

yeah, bigger food, i was working toward that
see when i first got it the store fed it a tiny pinkie, a runt, just to see if it would indeed eat something
(they had not had it long enough to feed yet)
it took 3 tries with placing the pinkie in the back of the mouth, essentially making it easier to swallow than not
but it did suck it down in the end, so thats what sold me
after that i thought it best to take it a step at a time and ease it up on bigger things
the pinkie in the pic is a medium sized one and Bengal took it right off
(as you can see, no assisstance required)
next time i will ask for a big one for sure, and then fuzzies, mice, so forth
i just wasn't liking the idea of stepping it up so fast when it was a little resistant to the runt pinkie

Definitely ask for a fuzzy or hopper next time. The way to tell what prey size is best is to look at the snake's max point of girth, and give a prey item that is equal to or slightly smaller than that. And thats the size prey that you food. I was feeding my BP small adult mice when it was the size of yours in the above picture, so...

lets see if i got this right
pinkie too small, small mouse better, yes?
for only 20c a day you can prevent snake hunger :wink:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/rwebber/Bengalfood.jpg

That's much better sized -- both prey and photo! Both very good photos, by the way. However, next time, please space food items at least 4 days apart or feed one immediately after the other. Otherwise you can cause digestion difficulties.

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Originally Posted by DarkeFireStorm

for only 20c a day you can prevent snake hunger :wink:

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LOL! That is a good pic! And i second what Marla said, once a week is best for your little guy :)