feeding Kenyan Sand Boas

My guy never comes out to look for food. I always have to dig him up and stick the food in his face.... if I didn't do that, his food would just lay there and rot away. (ask me how I know *gag*)

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Originally Posted by lillyorchid

My guy never comes out to look for food. I always have to dig him up and stick the food in his face.... if I didn't do that, his food would just lay there and rot away. (ask me how I know *gag*)

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Haha one time that I fed Abbath (my bp) I left a live rat pup in there and the next day it died and MAN did that thing stink! Ugh!

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Originally Posted by Vomitore

Haha one time that I fed Abbath (my bp) I left a live rat pup in there and the next day it died and MAN did that thing stink! Ugh!

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I deal with that smell weekly at work. So so horrible! Nothing like a rat dieing and the snake covering it up with bedding OVER TOP of the heat panel.... give it about 4 days and you need a full mask to get that thing out. Or having a rat pup drown in the water bowl and bloat up for a good 24 hours. That will wake you up out of the worst sleepy fog you have ever been in.

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Originally Posted by lillyorchid

I deal with that smell weekly at work. So so horrible! Nothing like a rat dieing and the snake covering it up with bedding OVER TOP of the heat panel.... give it about 4 days and you need a full mask to get that thing out. Or having a rat pup drown in the water bowl and bloat up for a good 24 hours. That will wake you up out of the worst sleepy fog you have ever been in.

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Haha yeah that's where the pup died was right on the UTH. Man I walked in the room and WOAH what a stink!

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Speaking of which, is one of those that little "rescue" you took in to get feeding and if so, how is s/he these days? Off rat tails yet? =)

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That poor little one didn't make it. Always kept it's rat tails down, so I really don't know why she wasted away. Poor thing. My three sand boas are doing great, however. Chunkers.

I have a juvi sand boa about the same size as the one in your avatar...

Its being sort of picky when it comes to feeding it..

Took one pink first and second week I got it, went into shed and wouldnt take food for 3 weeks, now it hasn't ate in 8 days again and it didn't tonight when I tried the snake in a bag trick in its cage.

any hints to get this little girl to eat some more?

Oreo was/is REAAALLY picky about temps! If she grabbed and coiled, but then it cooled while "dying" then she'd let go and ignore it. I'd have to reheat it and get her to grab it again before she'd eat it.

When she was really little I fed her in a sep. shoebox tub and shined the red heat lamp inside. Now that she's older, if I know where she is, I make the bedding move and let her grab by poking her head out. Otherwise, I scoop for her and then feed her on the surface. I've had her a year, and can't call her an earthworm anymore :D but she's still only up to either mouse fuzzies, or smaller rat pinks.

just try the "mouse dance" that always works with mine...thats how i actually got him started on f/t