Slightly annoying

So my female spider het albino is THEE WORST striker in the world, if she played football she would be on the dole. Any ideas how to get her to actually hit the head and not the damn neck belly and all other parts on the side of a rat?

How and where are you heating it? Or is this a live rat?

Paint a target on the rats head.


Lol, that's not really something you can teach your snake. Feed f/t if your worried about the snakes safety.

I already feed F/T letting the rat defrost naturally at room temp for a good 4/5hours then giving it a blast under a ceramic heat bulb to take it to a nice warm feel, normally she gets over the fact she can't strike and gets it down backwards just like she's doing right now but the last few weeks she's spent a good hour then thought mehhhh I can't be botherd now

spider snake, spider snake, does whatever a spider snake does :D


fingers crossed she will learn it with time.

How big is she? Even eating a feeder backwards should not be so difficult it loses interest.

110g a liccle baby, it wasn't eating it backwards she just couldn't figure out where an end was!

A small rat is to big for a snake that size. You should be using rat fuzzy or a mouse hopper for a snake in that range.

Your prey item should be 10-15% of the snakes weight.

That's what she's on http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/03/01/e3u8ezet.jpg this was around 30 mins ago only just finished!


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Check out post six for an idea of what different prey items weigh. And it shows what a mouse is equal to compared to a rat.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...=feeder+weight

She will get better in time. No need to worry.

If she's a spider, it's probably just the wobble. If it's not causing her not to eat at all, she's fine. From what I understand (I don't yet have a spider/spider combo) they get excited when being offered food and can miss. She should get better as she gets older and has more experience. Or maybe not and it'll always just take her a few tries to get it right.

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Originally Posted by Kurtilein

spider snake, spider snake, does whatever a spider snake does :D


fingers crossed she will learn it with time.

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http://i37.tinypic.com/jtw3zs.jpg
There is an approx. prey size list. The food should be around 10-15% of the snakes weight.
Another rule of thumb is, "no bigger around than the snake".

It may also help to warm up the prey's face a bit more than the rest of the body so the snake keys in on the head.

Good luck.