Don't follow my mistake

My inexperience almost cost my girl. I did not notice that mice is that much bigger until it is in the tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h1LO...ature=youtu.be


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h1LO...ature=youtu.be

Why are you feeding live? Frozen/thawed is the way to go.

May this be a lesson to you.
Be responsible and double check your prey item next time to throw it in the tank like that.
Converting to frozen/thawed prey will prevent your snake from possible life threatening bites.
Your lucky your snake didnt suffer a fatal encounter with that mouse, he was way to big for that king. :colbert:

That was a big ole rodent, but the snake got the job done.(did it get it down the hatch?) They are amazing animals. But yeah next time get a more appropriate sized prey item. There's nothing wrong with feeding live.....if you do it correctly.

It was my second live feed. I run out of f/t mouse and pet land also had no more, last year. So, I just took what they had on hand and drop it in. That was last time she had live mice. She took more than one hour to swallow it. Thanks god that she is strong & has skill.

It is a snake so the do stretch but kings jaws don't expand as much as other snakes do so you always have to be a little more careful with them.

What's done is done so it's good that you are learning from the mistake. You should have taken the mouse out of the tank once you knew it was too big for the snake. It would have been fine to let it kill the mouse and then take it away once you it tried to eat it.

I must have missed something in the video...? What was wrong with that besides the mouse being a tad bit too big?

Large mice will and can bite snake if it get a chance before snake kill the mice. If she can't kill this mice, she is in deep trouble. Angry and frightened large mice will rip the small snake and she had to struggle for this kill. Lucy that she has skill

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

I must have missed something in the video...? What was wrong with that besides the mouse being a tad bit too big?

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Originally Posted by ktint

Large mice will and can bite snake if it get a chance before snake kill the mice. If she can't kill this mice, she is in deep trouble. Angry and frightened large mice will rip the small snake and she had to struggle for this kill. Lucy that she has skill

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Yea but you were monitoring the feeding so if the mouse went crazy and attacked your snake or something you could have intervened.

You are right I will definately intervene. I am only worry about single good bite from this size mice before I can pull them apart. It will be quite bloody.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Yea but you were monitoring the feeding so if the mouse went crazy and attacked your snake or something you could have intervened.

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I think you're overreacting a bit, that mouse was doomed from the get go. These guys are killing machines and I see nothing but the efficient handling of an overly large, defensive mouse. Some 20 years ago feeding once a month was the norm for me and my snakes all got rather huge(in proportion to their bodies), live meals. In hundreds of feedings I never got more than a superficial bite to one of my snakes.

***disclaimer***
I now feed every 4-10 days(depending on animal) and more appropriately sized meals. I just wanted to share my past experiences and observations.

I think, may be I have not seen this kind of Brazillian Jujitsu from other snakes so I am too worry about my girl. :P

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Originally Posted by John1982

I think you're overreacting a bit, that mouse was doomed from the get go. These guys are killing machines and I see nothing but the efficient handling of an overly large, defensive mouse. Some 20 years ago feeding once a month was the norm for me and my snakes all got rather huge(in proportion to their bodies), live meals. In hundreds of feedings I never got more than a superficial bite to one of my snakes.

***disclaimer***
I now feed every 4-10 days(depending on animal) and more appropriately sized meals. I just wanted to share my past experiences and observations.

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