Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
Prefacing this that I haven't been a snake owner for very long at all, but I did vote in the poll.
Hobbyist or breeder:: Hobbyist
How often do you handle your snakes: Daily usually, he seems to love to explore so I let him! (supervised, of course!)
# snakes in Collection: 1
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: In
# of snakes with cage aggression: 0
F/T P/K or Live?: Live
Tank/Tub: Tank
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
I love cage aggression !!!! They eat good when they are mean !!! Lol
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
Hobbyist or Breeder: Hobbyist
# Snakes in Collection: 1
How often do you handle your snakes: Most days except after feeding
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: In cage
# of snakes with cage aggression: 0
F/T P/K or Live?: F/T
Tank/Tub: Tank
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
Hobbyist
I handle the 2 bps every seconds day and the 2 corns twice a week maybe.
I currently have 2 bps and 2 corns
I feed in the cage.
My pastel is a bit aggressive but its not due to feeding in the cage. She is like that all the time. But is settling down. She has always been aggrassive for me.
Bps = f/t rats
Corns = f/t mice.
Currently all in tanks but am switching over the bps to a rack hopefully next week.
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
Hobbyist or Breeder: Hobbyist, novice breeder
# Snakes in Collection: 21
How often do you handle your snakes: At least weekly per snake
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: In
# of snakes with cage aggression: One or two, but they're also aggressive out of the cage. :cool:
F/T P/K or Live?: Mostly live
Tank/Tub: Tub
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Hobbyist or Breeder: Hobbyist
# Snakes in Collection: 2
How often do you handle your snakes: 2-4 times per week each
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: Feed in tank
# of snakes with cage aggression: 0
F/T P/K or Live?: One gets F/T mice, one mouse every week to week and half (she's ~2 years old) and one gets live two mice every two weeks (he's full grown, 10 years old and refuses rats)
Tank/Tub: Tanks
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
I always feed in the cage. Neither of my snakes are cage aggressive.
Edited to add that I voted on the wrong on. I voted on "yes, I feed in the cage". I got confused...I should have voted "No, I feed in the cage" sorry!
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
Hobbyist or Breeder: Hobbyist
# Snakes in Collection: 2
How often do you handle your snakes: several times per week including on feeding day before the feeding.
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: Feed in cage
# of snakes with cage aggression: 0
F/T P/K or Live?: Both of my snakes get f/t RATS. The smaller one is still on pups and the bigger one is on small rats. I have never fed either of my snakes mice. My older one has never had a mouse in his entire life! I wonder if he'd know what to do with it...
Tank/Tub: Tubs now but they used to be in tanks.
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
Hobbyist or Breeder: hobbyist
# Snakes in Collection: one
How often do you handle your snakes: every few days
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: in cage (hides and water dish removed- she can differentiate between the empty cage and full one)
# of snakes with cage aggression: none
F/T P/K or Live?: live
Tank/Tub: tank (AP cage)
Like I said before, I don't have a cage aggressive snake because her environment changes when she eats, as opposed to when she is getting taken out. I don't even use a hook. I've only been tagged once in the 4 years I've owned her. That was because she had just come off of a 7 month fast and had eaten a small rat the week before (she normally has bigger mediums).
Re: Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices
Hobbyist or Breeder: hobbyist
# Snakes in Collection: 5
How often do you handle your snakes: weekly to twice weekly depending on how much free time I have
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: my ball is fed inside her tank, but all my corns and my king are fed outside in a sterilite container (only because I'm afraid of them accidentally ingesting aspen - my ball is on coconut husk)
# of snakes with cage aggression: 0
F/T P/K or Live?: all of my colubrids get F/T but my ball unfortunately refuses anything but live. My largest corn gets one jumbo mouse per week, my little king gets one fuzzy, and then my other 2 corns get one rat pup each. My ball gets 2 large live mice per week.
Tank/Tub: 4 of my snakes, including my ball, are currently in tanks. One of my corns is in a tub. However, as soon as my king and my youngest corn outgrow their tanks, they're going in tubs too! :D