Learning to constrict

Quick question... Somebody may be able to offer some insight. My approx. 6 month old baby corn keeps eating his meals alive. :O

He *tries* to kill them by constriction, but fails miserably. My question is, how long does it take for a young corn to perfect its constricting skills?

Thanks!!

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Originally Posted by SnakeCharmed

Quick question... Somebody may be able to offer some insight. My approx. 6 month old baby corn keeps eating his meals alive. :O

He *tries* to kill them by constriction, but fails miserably. My question is, how long does it take for a young corn to perfect its constricting skills?

Thanks!!

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LMAO! He will figure it out eventualy :gj:.Some corn snakes are lazy as babies(you know kids lol) they are in a "hurry" to eat dinner :P

My corn actually stopped constricting much as she grew up.. But that's probably due to feeding mostly f/t

Maybe the bugger is playing with his food? I'll not worry about it until the prey gets bigger.
:rolleye2:

My corn did that as a baby...when I feed F/T, I try to tug a bit on the tail to encourage "killing it"...that and it's funny as heck. =D

Pretty new into corns myself....shocked the bejesus out of me the first time I saw it! None of mine are very big yet, and I only have one that constricts and kills.

We have two baby corns, and we only feed f/t. Our boy constricted for the first time last week, though it would not have been enough force to do much to anything but a pinky...if that.

Mine have never constricted pinkys or fuzzies, once they got larger in prey size they did. But I also feed f/t so its not an issue. I'd recommend switching to f/t though, then it's not even an issue.

Both of my girls are lazy they never constrict .Both are still young and have only ate 2-3x for me:)

why dont you just switch to f/t its safer and cheaper unless you breed them yourself if which case i would at least stun them first

My corns - juvi and full adult - only constrict when I play 'tug-o-war' with the mouse after they've grabbed it. Sometimes, like now due to overstock of mice, they get PK instead of FT and seem to be more inclined to constrict then... but not always.

To be safe, once a corn is on fuzzies I try to switch them to FT so the constricting issue is never a serious worry. :)

no need to stun it, just pluck it in the head to knock it out, or hit it against something then feed it to the snake. ill have to watch a corn eat one of these days, it sounds intresting. my anaconda owns live prey.

I only feed FT to my garbage disposals... I mean colubrids, for exactly this reason.

Just have to hear a rat pup mewing after it is long swallowed to never want to hear that again.

:(

Bruce