need some info on mojaves

Hasnt taken a meal that wasnt assisted?? Interested to hear what you mean by that comment... Im guess you helping is shoving the rat in the snakes mouth and forcing it to eat... Yea def NOT a good idea and NOT the way to get your snake to eat consistantly

heres pics of my male which i a great eater but other then that he's about the same as any other ball python.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...135_edited.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...136_edited.jpg

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Hasnt taken a meal that wasnt assisted?? Interested to hear what you mean by that comment... Im guess you helping is shoving the rat in the snakes mouth and forcing it to eat... Yea def NOT a good idea and NOT the way to get your snake to eat consistantly

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I appreciate your attempts to help (?), but I assure you the situation is under control.

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Hasnt taken a meal that wasnt assisted?? Interested to hear what you mean by that comment... Im guess you helping is shoving the rat in the snakes mouth and forcing it to eat... Yea def NOT a good idea and NOT the way to get your snake to eat consistantly

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There is a difference between force feeding and assist feeding. Sometimes baby pythons don't begin feeding on their own and after one or couple of assist feeds their metabolism and feeding respose kicks on on they are fine. I had one hatchling this year that needed one assist feed, sometimes they need a few. Now this girl is a chow hound and is feeding fine. It's done all the time after many attempts to get hatchlings started.

here a pic of my adult female mojave

and another of the same animal with a lesser so you can see the color of a mojo


http://a237.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...e8c1db392c.jpg


http://a279.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...bd915c83d6.jpg

that mojo is great, but the lesser is making me drool!!!!

yeah me too, great snakeys, very helpful post for me, i never really knew what a lesser looked like but now i do :)
there seems to be very few in the UK. " hint " " hint "

Raul care to share the difference between assited feeding and force feeding?

Morphie - I'm not worried on how you handle your snakes... If it works then it works

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Morphie - I'm not worried on how you handle your snakes... If it works then it works

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I tried to start him normally using every trick in the book. Eventually it was clear that if i didn't get a meal into him, he'd be on a pinky pump within a few weeks and at high risk for... well... death.

He still isn't doing it on his own, but at least we're keeping an okay weight, and he doesn't look like an old leather sandbag anymore.

I'm still working with him. Assist-feeding is a pain in the keester and a huge stress on everyone involved. I look forward to not having to do it anymore.

Some just never get the idea. Keep working with it and hope for the best. :D