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Re: Feeding inside enclosure Vs. in a separate enclosure. (questions)
Originally Posted by snakesRkewl
The point I am getting at is they get bigger and have big appetites, especially females
I find that picking up my snakes will throw them off feed for the time being, after all they think I'm taking them out to play, not to eat
It's all in how you program them, feeding in or out of the enclosure is a personal decision and as long as the snake eats and stays healthy then it doesn't matter which you do.
Well I guess we have already 'programmed' Snickers to eat out of her enclosure at this point so we will stick to it but your posts are making me hope Snickers is actually a male!
Are females that much more aggressive than males?
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Re: Feeding inside enclosure Vs. in a separate enclosure. (questions)
Originally Posted by Superpop
Are females that much more aggressive than males?
No, not at all, only when they feeding up for breeding do they start their give me, give me, give me attitude, lol.
Jerry Robertson
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Brian and his staff at BHB feed THOUSANDS of snakes in their enclosures - always has. They have even done tests on food aggression and programming. And they have not had a single case of impaction from ingesting substrate.
Turns out, it is the snake, not the environment or feeding process. The snake they used as a control and fed IN the bin was calmer than the one they took out to feed.
In other words, do what you want. But don't have a reason other than it is what YOU prefer.
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I feed in cardboard boxes because some of my snakes are DUMB-DUMBS and really will start launching themselves at me every time I open the tank if I feed in the enclosure. And I really don't wait very long at all to move them back at the end of the meal---I make sure the mouse is all the way down and there's not a bulge in their neck. But once they've swallowed, I pretty much just grab them by the tail and put them back. (I do find grabbing them by the back end works pretty well--I think the advice to hold them directly under the bulge actually makes them a bit uncomfortable.)
But either way, I've never had one regurge from transporting them back to the tank after a meal. I HAVE had them regurge because somebody kicked the cord to the UTH and the temps went way down overnight, and then way up in the morning when I plugged it back it.
I actually use newsprint paper as a substrate. So I'm not as worried about them accidentally swallowing it as I would be with paper towels. I'm not sure I'd worry about aspen chips? Sometimes the mice come with aspen attached anyway. I try to clean them off, but sometimes I miss some.
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