Feeding gone wild

What an evening this has been ,it's feeding night so earlier I had all the rats out of the freezer everyone right size all played out to warm up all was good at 10 pm I started my feeding.
Hog Nose won't eat it's been 2 months
Mr Python normal Ball has me making his food night fun, I have this Rat and I have to make it dance,hop,slowing go by the snake like we're on a race track I know he does this on purpose lol after 20 minutes he finally grabs the Rat Pup I offer another and he goes and hides in his cave silly Boy.
My Lemon Blast ate his 3 Hopper size .
My Bumblebee eats his 2 hoppers.
My New Baby King did not eat.

My New Baby Ivory Ball Slammed down 2 Hoppers.
My
Mountain King refused his meal.
My Pastel Ball would have nothing to do with eating
My Matrix Borneo eats his two Rat pups plus 1 my Balls refused
My Blood Python eats everything that he can get to.
After all this 3 hours later I'm really tired everyone is tucked in and I'm next on the list time to crash .



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ahhh feeding day. did you tell your picky eaters that there are Balls in Africa that would love to have that food??

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Originally Posted by AllThatInThemGenes

ahhh feeding day. did you tell your picky eaters that there are Balls in Africa that would love to have that food??

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How True.

Sometimes those Balls can be soooo frustrating. "Just Freaking Eat" :tricho:

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Originally Posted by Lady mkrj58

What an evening this has been ,it's feeding night so earlier I had all the rats out of the freezer everyone right size all played out to warm up all was good at 10 pm I started my feeding.
Hog Nose won't eat it's been 2 months
Mr Python normal Ball has me making his food night fun, I have this Rat and I have to make it dance,hop,slowing go by the snake like we're on a race track I know he does this on purpose lol after 20 minutes he finally grabs the Rat Pup I offer another and he goes and hides in his cave silly Boy.
My Lemon Blast ate his 3 Hopper size .
My Bumblebee eats his 2 hoppers.
My New Baby King did not eat.

My New Baby Ivory Ball Slammed down 2 Hoppers.
My
Mountain King refused his meal.
My Pastel Ball would have nothing to do with eating
My Matrix Borneo eats his two Rat pups plus 1 my Balls refused
My Blood Python eats everything that he can get to.
After all this 3 hours later I'm really tired everyone is tucked in and I'm next on the list time to crash .



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Incidentally .. The one that takes 20 minutes - have you tried giving the mouse / rat a quick ten second blast with a hair dryer ?? So heat up and offer / wiggle it and if it's refused give it another quick blast ... Repeat as required . The smell will also trigger a better response from some of the others as well .
I have a couple of albino Royals who will only strike from inside their hide !! So I have to dangle the offering in front of the hide entrance ...

Those two Albinos are fed every 10 to 14 days rather than weekly and it seems to suit them better ...

Thankfully my other 20 snakes ( Burm / Boa / Kings / Garters / Rat snakes ... are all df frozen drop feeders and they take about 15 minutes all together every 7 to 8 days .

When you tell them that they give you the finger and ignore food longer.

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Originally Posted by Zincubus

Incidentally .. The one that takes 20 minutes - have you tried giving the mouse / rat a quick ten second blast with a hair dryer ?? So heat up and offer / wiggle it and if it's refused give it another quick blast ... Repeat as required . The smell will also trigger a better response from some of the others as well .
I have a couple of albino Royals who will only strike from inside their hide !! So I have to dangle the offering in front of the hide entrance ...

Those two Albinos are fed every 10 to 14 days rather than weekly and it seems to suit them better ...

Thankfully my other 20 snakes ( Burm / Boa / Kings / Garters / Rat snakes ... are all df frozen drop feeders and they take about 15 minutes all together every 7 to 8 days .

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I do that the Rat is at the right Temps Mr Python and my pastel were my live eaters, had them switched to F/T two months ago Its like they are dreaming of the good old days lol. My quick eaters are the Bloods. Hope next week the Balls are Hungry. It's about shed time so that could be the reason they are on Strike lol lol[emoji4]

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Originally Posted by Lady mkrj58

I do that the Rat is at the right Temps Mr Python and my pastel were my live eaters, had them switched to F/T two months ago Its like they are dreaming of the good old days lol. My quick eaters are the Bloods. Hope next week the Balls are Hungry. It's about shed time so that could be the reason they are on Strike lol lol[emoji4]

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Yeah. Shed mode or breeding mode possibly -- you'll never know sadly ... I read somewhere that we feed snakes all wrong mainly for our convenience basically - same sized food , same time - same day etc . Whilst they're binge eating randomly sized rodents whenever they're hungry ...

Just curious - is there a reason you're feeding multiple hoppers instead of up sizing?

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Originally Posted by Lady mkrj58

What an evening this has been ,it's feeding night so earlier I had all the rats out of the freezer everyone right size all played out to warm up all was good at 10 pm I started my feeding.
Hog Nose won't eat it's been 2 months
Mr Python normal Ball has me making his food night fun, I have this Rat and I have to make it dance,hop,slowing go by the snake like we're on a race track I know he does this on purpose lol after 20 minutes he finally grabs the Rat Pup I offer another and he goes and hides in his cave silly Boy.
My Lemon Blast ate his 3 Hopper size .
My Bumblebee eats his 2 hoppers.
My New Baby King did not eat.

My New Baby Ivory Ball Slammed down 2 Hoppers.
My
Mountain King refused his meal.
My Pastel Ball would have nothing to do with eating
My Matrix Borneo eats his two Rat pups plus 1 my Balls refused
My Blood Python eats everything that he can get to.
After all this 3 hours later I'm really tired everyone is tucked in and I'm next on the list time to crash .



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When I offer the larger mice they refuse Ive wondered why my self, every other week I try to switch the size I think they are teasing me just to make me worry.

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Originally Posted by AllThatInThemGenes

ahhh feeding day. did you tell your picky eaters that there are Balls in Africa that would love to have that food??

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I will tell them this next feeding day...

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