Methods used in Feeding

My method doesn't exactly fit in any of those. I feed f/t, but I stick the rat and Shelby in a paper grocery bag, roll it shut, and leave them overnight. Does the trick. :)

I use f/t (or sometimes prekilled, but never live). I do that "rat dance" and each snake grabs it. Goblin has the cute habit of lurching right out the doors of his cage to grab the rat!

F/t and in enclosure. She's eaten twice since I got her on the 4th, on the 9th and last night. I'm feeding her every 6 days and then bumping it up to every 7 when she gets a little bigger. I just have to do the zombie mouse dance and she grabs it and down it goes. Last night was so cute, she grabbed the butt and constricted that end instead of the head and then proceeded to swallow a back leg. She let go after a bit, sniffed the mouse's bum, you could pretty much see the look of "eeewww that doesn't smell right" and had the hardest time finding the head, LoL. She practically turned herself upside down trying to find it, she's not too smart :) Poor girl.

Hey Angela, maybe yours just prefer the flying zombie mice?? That might make a good horror movie :-D

Always inside the enclosure, and it depends on the individual snake and/or situation for live or f/t.

p/k in tank but the next feeding im goin to het her eating in another tank!

I find it very interesting that so many people have said they feed in the tank. I've read over, and over, and over again that feeding should take place outside the tank, so that your bp doesn't associate reaching into the tank with receiving food.

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Originally Posted by epilover

I find it very interesting that so many people have said they feed in the tank. I've read over, and over, and over again that feeding should take place outside the tank, so that your bp doesn't associate reaching into the tank with receiving food.

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I've never had a problem with this. I open my snakes' cages for many other things other than food, so it's never an issue. If you only opened your snake's cage once a week to feed it, then you'd have trouble.

Like alot of people who feed in the tank have said........... with daily water changes and other stuff you are opening the tank quite often,therefore i dont think the snake will associate the opening of the tank with food.Alot of people have no problems feeding in the tank, its really not a big deal.I just feed out of the tank becuase if i dont they will drag the food into a hide and then i cant tell what they are doing and if they are getting it down ok.It just works better for me


And even still, with feeding outside the tank, if you feed inside the same extra tank everytime i think they can associate that tank with feeding so really its just as dangerous i think.

I only say that becuase as soon as i put my snakes in thier feeding tanks the start hunting right away and curl thier necks back into the "s" thats what makes me belive they can associate a differnt tank with food.

Just my opinion

f/t in a seperate container, and leave them for a while. I feed Cali my first time on Saturday, and she did not take it immeditaly, so I threw a towl over top, came back 30-1 min later and she was eating it, boy was I happy. I was wondering though, in that ammount of time, it it enough to constrict the mouse?

Sometimes, they dont constrict, they just swallow.My corn who ate F/T out of the egg doesnt ever constrict.Was your snake Raised on F/T ??

30 minutes is a pretty long time .Chances are it constricted. Thats definitly enough time to constrict and swallow for my snakes :?