Tail first??

Hi!
I was just wondering if you could all help me confirm something?
Monty is starting to eat it, but today I finally upped his feeding. Before he was on 1 small mouse, but at the pet shop they reckoned he should move up to a bigger size. Today he took his first adult moise, but he took it tail first? At the moment I can't see any problems, but I was just double checking if this is normal? Some people are saying its normal whilst other say that it is and can be fatal to them. For as far as I can see (not much as he has wrapped him self around the mouse) it is half way down him. Should I be worried?
Sorry for such a long post, it's just he hasn't done this before :/

Also, I tried to measure him yesterday (He wouldn't stay still for long) and I gathered he is around 22 inches, and I'm afraid I don't know his weight.

I've found wrong end feeding frequently occurs when prey size is increased. if he's gotten past the hips, it'll most likely go down. don't worry about it.

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Originally Posted by DennisM

I've found wrong end feeding frequently occurs when prey size is increased. if he's gotten past the hips, it'll most likely go down. don't worry about it.

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Thank you!!

Sorry again but I just checked he hasn't managed to get the second leg down?? ����

UPDATE he hasn't gotten either of the back legs down

should I do Something???

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Originally Posted by AquariaNautica

Sorry again but I just checked he hasn't managed to get the second leg down?? ����

UPDATE he hasn't gotten either of the back legs down

should I do Something???

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no, he'll give up eventually. or maybe figure it out.

Thank you. I guess I am just over worrying. He is still in the same state as he was somse the last post though

Sometimes young snakes have trouble figuring out how to swallow prey head first... he'll figure it out eventually! And if he ever takes too long and gives up, you can re-heat it and offer again.

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Originally Posted by redshepherd

Sometimes young snakes have trouble figuring out how to swallow prey head first... he'll figure it out eventually! And if he ever takes too long and gives up, you can re-heat it and offer again.

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Thank you!
he hasn't gotten any further but keeps twisting and turning trying to figure it out. I hope he does!

If you're interested in knowing how long your snake is, OWAL has a link to a small measuring tool you can use on your computer. (The site is also a good source of other information.) Just follow the directions on OWAL site and you shouldn't have any problems with wriggly worms moving mid measure.

For the backwards eating, he'll eventually figure it out. Or he'll eat it backwards. :P I've seen ours do it both ways, though usually the backwards thing doesn't happen often. We even had Blackout fold a rat in half and eat it from the middle once because it was a small leftover that someone else hadn't eaten and her meal had been about 50g short of what she was used to. (Seriously, once she swallowed it, you couldn't even tell she'd folded the thing in half.) Kind of wish I'd gotten a pic of that...all 4 paws, a head and tail all sticking out her mouth.

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Originally Posted by SmoothScales

If you're interested in knowing how long your snake is, OWAL has a link to a small measuring tool you can use on your computer. (The site is also a good source of other information.) Just follow the directions on OWAL site and you shouldn't have any problems with wriggly worms moving mid measure.

For the backwards eating, he'll eventually figure it out. Or he'll eat it backwards. :P I've seen ours do it both ways, though usually the backwards thing doesn't happen often. We even had Blackout fold a rat in half and eat it from the middle once because it was a small leftover that someone else hadn't eaten and her meal had been about 50g short of what she was used to. (Seriously, once she swallowed it, you couldn't even tell she'd folded the thing in half.) Kind of wish I'd gotten a pic of that...all 4 paws, a head and tail all sticking out her mouth.

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Haha wow that's amazing! Well done Blackout 😂😂👏👏
Thank you, bless him he is still trooping on here trying to get it down. I guess I am just over worrying a bit 😂 What can I say I love my little Monty ❤️

I'm really sorry you bother you all again but over here in the Uk it's getting really late and he has made absolutely no progress yet he hasn't moved. He has been I'm the same position for around three hours now but still refuses to give up, is it okay if I leave it with him overnight? Should I make an attempts to move it?

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Originally Posted by AquariaNautica

I'm really sorry you bother you all again but over here in the Uk it's getting really late and he has made absolutely no progress yet he hasn't moved. He has been I'm the same position for around three hours now but still refuses to give up, is it okay if I leave it with him overnight? Should I make an attempts to move it?

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^ How did this turn out?

My 2 yr. old+ male will still occasionally take his feeders backwards. Happened again today.

Jörmungandr doesn't seem to know how to food and keeps taking his backwards. He swallows them down just fine so I'm not too concerned it's just amusing to watch.

My girl has tried it every way possible, but the funniest thing shes ever done was to grab, constrict, then drop the rat in her water bowl, then she laid on the edge of the bowl and struck at the water till she hit the rat and tried for 5 mins. to swallow first the tail first, then the side swallow then finally she found the head, then 10 mins, later after swallowing a very soggy rat and leaving me a nice mess to clean up, she went into her hot hide to take a well deserved nap, after all she worked hard for that meal.

A while back my Bredli python took a mouse (at that point she was on small rats) *sideways*, folding it in half as she got it down. It looked like she'd swallowed a tennis ball! [emoji4].


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Leave him be. He will eventually figure it out. I would leave it til morning and if still nothing then remove it and wait til next feeding time and start again. They do eventually figure it out.