Rat's chewing...

Who else here feeds live and with temp probe in their snakes enclosure?

Yesterday was feeding day and well #4 Acurite thermometer's wire got chewed on by the stupid rat and bit the dust. Yup I've lost 4 of those things in less then 6 months because of a chewy / nosy rat. :angered:

Any one else have this problem?
If not, then what are you using and how do you have your's set up? :confuse::weirdface

I took my accurite out of my enclosure altogether. I put just the screen part in a tub everyday for a little while to check humidity though. I have been meaning to setup a dummy tub for that reason alone.


-Tim

I feed live with a temp probes in my snakes enclosure... can't say that I have ever had this problem. When you put the rat into the enclosure of the snake... the snake should eat it right away... giving the rat no time to chew on anything right?

I would think that you could run the wire through some type of pipe to protect it, like how the wires that run to your electric meter are once they get to your house.

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Originally Posted by Kilo

I feed live with a temp probes in my snakes enclosure... can't say that I have ever had this problem. When you put the rat into the enclosure of the snake... the snake should eat it right away... giving the rat no time to chew on anything right?

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The snake will not always take it in seconds. Consider yourself lucky if all yours do.

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Originally Posted by Kilo

the snake should eat it right away... giving the rat no time to chew on anything right?

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LOL easier said then done. After about 15 minutes, everyone by then is wrapped around their food item. I wish it were that simple that I just put the rodent in there and BANG it was dead in a hot second.

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Originally Posted by piranhaking

I would think that you could run the wire through some type of pipe to protect it, like how the wires that run to your electric meter are once they get to your house.

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Awesome idea, I'll have to really look in to that.

The only rack that I have the probes in the tubs is my adult rack. So I am using a dummy tub set just like the other ones, hides, water, misting, etc ....


Neil

Neil, that is a good idea also -- but I think I'd be tempted to put a breathing , scaley, critter in there. ;)

ha ha haaa, dummy tubs. what a novel and hilarious idea. :P as if there is a dummy tub to be found anywhere in my house. :D

Dummy tubs are awesome! I've got one in every rack!

We just remove the Acu-Rites while feeding live. :)

May sound like an ass, but i'd rather have them chew on a probe then one of my babies. I admit feeding live from time to time(and it is a choice) for my balls are very finicky sometimes, but it makes me very jittery, I sit and stare like a hawk until little buddy completely swallows. I had a bad experience with a local pet store way back when I was still fairly new and green to snakes, I showed up one day about 10 mins before they were to open and when they opened I went straight to the reptile section, no one had been in there prior to me that morning, and when I looked in on their ball python(yes one, I live in the middle of nowhere) the majority of its scales were gone, and there was a mouse sitting in the back on the substrate, very freakish vision for a young guy who just assumed snakes would not allow that to happen to them.

resembled this (warning disturbing pictures, first set, also pics of some birth further down, and a good reason not to house different snakes together, even same sized ones.)

http://www.boa-constrictors.com/com/News/News.htm

now I am not saying they were left in there for a long length of time, but being in there long enough to chew through the probe could still do some damage.

I had it happen once (he snuck behind the hide and got it while I was sitting right there) and I spliced the wire back together and it works just fine. I might not have know if the temp didn't suddenly read "Lo". I have the outdoor probe stuck to the plexiglass over the flexwatt, so taking it in a nd out isn't practical. I keep the wire buried in the reptibark, so I haven't had much other problems.

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Originally Posted by lillyorchid

Who else here feeds live and with temp probe in their snakes enclosure?

Yesterday was feeding day and well #4 Acurite thermometer's wire got chewed on by the stupid rat and bit the dust. Yup I've lost 4 of those things in less then 6 months because of a chewy / nosy rat. :angered:

Any one else have this problem?
If not, then what are you using and how do you have your's set up? :confuse::weirdface

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Originally Posted by Dureo

May sound like an ass, but i'd rather have them chew on a probe then one of my babies. I admit feeding live from time to time(and it is a choice) for my balls are very finicky sometimes, but it makes me very jittery, I sit and stare like a hawk until little buddy completely swallows. I had a bad experience with a local pet store way back when I was still fairly new and green to snakes, I showed up one day about 10 mins before they were to open and when they opened I went straight to the reptile section, no one had been in there prior to me that morning, and when I looked in on their ball python(yes one, I live in the middle of nowhere) the majority of its scales were gone, and there was a mouse sitting in the back on the substrate, very freakish vision for a young guy who just assumed snakes would not allow that to happen to them.

resembled this (warning disturbing pictures, first set, also pics of some birth further down, and a good reason not to house different snakes together, even same sized ones.)

http://www.boa-constrictors.com/com/News/News.htm

now I am not saying they were left in there for a long length of time, but being in there long enough to chew through the probe could still do some damage.

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We want to stress that boids normally doesn't fit in the prey pattern of Boa constrictor snakes. This was surely an isolated case and an absolute exception. Normally you don't need to be afraid when you
house your Boa constrictor along with other boids.

Anyone else see a problem with this?