My Mousers and Frustrations

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Originally Posted by Captainsloose

When you are feeding your mouser multiple mice are you feeding her all four in one session? Or multiple sessions?

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my GHI Mojave mouser boy who only eats live will eat 2-3 live mice in a feeding session but will probably eat 4 or more if i let him. my BP's that are on live just have a different feeding response when it comes to live prey. the kill is almost instant.

my Clown and Albino Super Mojave will eat a max of 2 f/t mice before they become uninterested. i will be planning on feeding them multiple times a week as they grow if this is still the case. :/

I put my picky-would only eat 1 at a time-losing weight-mouser on african soft furs instead. She has been gaining weight steadily on them since the switch. Hasn't refused one ever either.

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Originally Posted by Captainsloose

When you are feeding your mouser multiple mice are you feeding her all four in one session? Or multiple sessions?

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One session so it's more like getting 1 small rat after they're all in there. I don't put multiple live in her drawer at once. Just give her one, wait a few minutes til it's down, another then wait for it to go down..

I'm so stoked. My picky mouser wouldn't take his FT from me even though he was interested, so I put him back in his hide and stuck the heads of the mice inside the entrance. An hour later they were long gone. They were larger FT so total they were 50g

I'm going to get another box of small FT rats from petco to see if he will take a rat that way. If so, I'll buy rats at the next reptile show. For now though I have about 40 XL mice left from the last show.

I prefer to use live rat pups instead of mice, my live only snakes will take either but the mice are just too dangerous in my opinion. A rat pup will get bigger than a jumbo adult mouse before he even opens his eyes. They are totally safe to leave in unattended with the snake. My snakes usually take them right away but sometimes I leave them in the closed up tub for about an hour with the snake, I'd never do that with an adult mouse, just too dangerous for the snake. I think some snakes don't like to be watched when they feed. I have one in particular that just doesn't like me very much and just watching her feed is enough to distract her to the point where she won't feed. But if I drop in a rat pup and close the tub she will always eat. The trick is raising enough rat pups of the right age to always have pups available for all my snakes. I only feed live mice to my breeder females to keep them fat and happy and only if I'm short on rat pups.