Starting to believe the color of mice matters

The past two times I tried to feed my snake he didn't even pay attention when I used a white mouse. I just got in a put him into his tub with a brown one and he wolfed it down. I was getting worried.

So apparently it is true, The color of the mouse does matter. Atleast to my snake

Glad to hear your snake ate!

When i first got my girl I was told that she refused a brown mouse 2 weeks prior and to stick to white so I too believed it.

but since I read about prescenting, I have been prescenting her enclosure with the petco box (that smells awful!!!) she hasnt missed a feed no matter what color the mouse was since September!

But if your snake is being picky then just try to always get brown, I know when you buy F/T mice from petco you have no say in color so I figured I'd give that little tip that I learned when I got my girl.

If he still refuses another color and you do not have a white mouse available, try to re-offer it to her a few days later, he might be a little less picky when he's a bit more hungry!

Hope I helped:D

:banana: - I love this guy!!! lol

My lil girl only eats female mice ... shes been on and off feed for a few months now and ive noticed that she readily eats female mice but only reluctantly if ever eats male mice... as for the colour issue i havent had any problems feeding with white or brown, but ive only used brown maybe 4 times

color does matter to some snakes
a friend of mine has 1 that only eats white mice

I still think its BS...

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Originally Posted by Peter Williams

I still think its BS...

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How so?

It worked. We are not trying to come to any scientific conclusion that will change the way we look at snakes forever, You really can't argue what snakes choose to eat case by case.

I'd have to agree. It's BS unless the snake is a non-acclimated wild-caught.

Stop taking the snake out of its home to feed it. That just stresses him out and doesn't let him prepare himself for what is happening. Just leave him in his home with a hide, pre-scent the room with the mouse or whatever for 30 minutes, dim the room, and drop the mouse onto the opposite side that the snake is on. Close the lid and leave the snake alone.

This board is so messed up in everyone tells you how to raise your snake in every thread no matter what it's about and everyone has different answers. I can write a thread about drinking pepsi and someone will come on here and say " make sure the temps up and to check the bottles humidity". You do not know every snake personally and this thread was not made to get advice, Simply pointing out my experience with this snake.

There are a few good posters here, but everyone always has different ways of doing things and I'd much rather just read a book about it than deal with you closed minded people.

The people that gave me good advice, Thank you it's more than appreciated.


PEACE

snakes dont see in color they see thermosight or something like that

BS? Color-blind? Dunno!

All I know is that my axanthic refuses rats that are not white. I have tried with black rats and hooded rats. No go. White headed rats is all she will take. I even turned a dark headed around and offered the white butt and, what do you know? She took it!!

Silly snake! :P

i have seen this before on this site and also on another site.
ball pythons not only use heat they also use sight and smell also.

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I still think its BS...

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my pastel will eat a white mice in a couple seconds but will not even strike at a brown or black mouse for atleast 30 min.
my friend has 1 that only eats white mice and another friend has 1 that only eats black or brown mice

It has never happened to me, so it is BS. I know exactly how a ball python thinks. /end sarcasm

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It has never happened to me, so it is BS. I know exactly how a ball python thinks. /end sarcasm

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haha we have a snake psychic everyone!

NO NO NO! There has got to be a reason for it. This is not simply coincidence, well it is, but not really at the same time. There has got to be some kind of defect. Just like humans, animals are suseptable to defects as well. I'm thinking color blind. Think about it for it a second. Some of these stories I have been reading just prove it foward. Someone said that they turned the rat around ass backwards and boom it took it. So many cases like this its not even funny. When this happens its gotta be some case of vision disorder...

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Originally Posted by dsmalex97

haha we have a snake psychic everyone!

NO NO NO! There has got to be a reason for it. This is not simply coincidence, well it is, but not really at the same time. There has got to be some kind of defect. Just like humans, animals are suseptable to defects as well. I'm thinking color blind. Think about it for it a second. Some of these stories I have been reading just prove it foward. Someone said that they turned the rat around ass backwards and boom it took it. So many cases like this its not even funny. When this happens its gotta be some case of vision disorder...

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I completely agree with you. But it could be nothing more than stubborn pickyness by certain pythons too.

I noticed this with some of my snakes when they were little worms but they all seem to be willing to eat anything they can swallow and somethings that they can't like my hand. I must smell delicious to them cus more than half would rather go for me than the mouse/rat.

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Originally Posted by mckittie

This board is so messed up in everyone tells you how to raise your snake in every thread no matter what it's about and everyone has different answers. I can write a thread about drinking pepsi and someone will come on here and say " make sure the temps up and to check the bottles humidity". You do not know every snake personally and this thread was not made to get advice, Simply pointing out my experience with this snake.

There are a few good posters here, but everyone always has different ways of doing things and I'd much rather just read a book about it than deal with you closed minded people.

The people that gave me good advice, Thank you it's more than appreciated.


PEACE

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Uh... this is the husbandry section.... As the title says.. Husbandry: Anything related to the care and keeping of ball pythons.

You mentioned that 1.) you remove your snake to feed it and 2.) you sometimes have trouble getting it to eat. Your new so you think it is likely the color of the mouse that is the problem, not that you might be doing something wrong.

Why would you consider it off topic or innapropriate for becky to point out that your removing the snake to feed it is likely a big part of the problem?

If you don't want suggestions, write a book instead of participating in a forum.

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Originally Posted by dsmalex97

haha we have a snake psychic everyone!

NO NO NO! There has got to be a reason for it. This is not simply coincidence, well it is, but not really at the same time. There has got to be some kind of defect. Just like humans, animals are suseptable to defects as well. I'm thinking color blind. Think about it for it a second. Some of these stories I have been reading just prove it foward. Someone said that they turned the rat around ass backwards and boom it took it. So many cases like this its not even funny. When this happens its gotta be some case of vision disorder...

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I don't think it is necessarily a defect. It would be more likely a defect if the snake couldn't tell the difference between a white & black mouse.

We know BPs can imprint on certain kinds of foods. Why not the color of the food?

I think in most cases if imprinting, tough love will probably solve it, whether it is species based or color or anything else. But if feeding black mice instead of white ones works, and you can be sure you'll always have black mice available, why worry about it?

lets not forget how extordinary a snakes sense of smell really is ... it is quite possible that they can smell the difference between a white/rat and a brown/black mouse/rat