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  • 07-09-2015, 09:09 AM
    Darkbird
    Any colubrid like a corn, milk or king, for the smaller prey, and my boas for bigger stuff. Or like right now, my larger monitors will always dispose of extra stuff for me.
  • 07-09-2015, 10:49 AM
    EL-Ziggy
    Re: Which species has the best feeding response/garbage disposal snake? LOL
    I agree with John. My bull snakes will eat anything/anytime.
  • 07-09-2015, 11:32 AM
    theoremofgoats
    My Brazilian rainbow boa is an INSANE feeder. Whenever I put the rat pinky in front of her, she starts striking like crazy and always misses a few times before getting it…which I find incredibly amusing.
  • 07-09-2015, 11:44 AM
    Marissa@MKmorphs
    While boas will usually eat anytime food is offered, I wouldn't recommend one as a garbage disposal. An occaisional extra is fine, but boas have slower metabolisms as it is, and there are a lot of health problems that crop up with continued overfeeding (whether it is meals too frequently, or too large/too many prey items).

    I would recommend colubrids, they typically have much faster metabolisms, but I would recommend more than one garbage disposal if you have refusals quite that frequently.

    My go to option is always to offer a refusal to my female ball pythons first, then resort to my "garbage disposals".
  • 07-09-2015, 01:10 PM
    JoshSloane
    Burms for sure. Those goofs would eat a license plate if it smelled like rat.
  • 07-10-2015, 09:05 PM
    Artemisace
    Re: Which species has the best feeding response/garbage disposal snake? LOL
    http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07...f40b34660b.jpg
    This little psycho, my green anaconda will literally eat anything and anytime food is presented to her. Most insane feeding response out of any of my snakes. Even my retics aren't as crazy as she is.

    Sent from my SM-G920T using Tapatalk
  • 07-12-2015, 12:07 AM
    Bluebonnet Herp
    My boa never refuses a meal. I would say a large BCI can be a good garbage disposal snake. Juveniles can easily be overfed, and - to answer one of your questions - other subspecies quickly go downhill if you accidentally overfeed them once.

    Oddly enough, I have an adult pastel male BP with a ferocious feeding response that has taken refused meals from my other ones on several occasions. He seems to be the exception though, but never a dull moment with him on feeding day - he chases prey items out of his enclosure, after all.
  • 07-12-2015, 02:42 AM
    black06gt
    Re: Which species has the best feeding response/garbage disposal snake? LOL
    I picked up a Red Tail Boa just for this reason lol. I was tired of wasting the frozen rats my BP's wouldn't eat.
    She'll eat Rats, Mice, Live or Frozen Thawed !! Never refuses a meal :gj:
    http://i.imgur.com/UUVpOsEl.jpg?1
  • 07-13-2015, 03:48 AM
    midnightLeo
    Re: Which species has the best feeding response/garbage disposal snake? LOL
    My experience comes while both BP and boa where in shed. On several occasions while glossed over my BP would not eat frozen thawed or fresh killed. For my Boa it does not matter he can be into the shed process or glossed over blind he will eat anything you put near him without fail.
  • 07-13-2015, 12:13 PM
    KitaCat
    Oddly enough, my main "garbage disposal" is actually a ball python. I have a huge variety of feeding responses from my BP's, but my Pastel Calico is a beast.

    I second corn snakes as well. I'm pretty sure mine would take 4-5 rodents in a sitting if I offered them. :O (I don't, of course!)
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