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Feeding new blood
Hey guys, new to the forum. I brought my blood home on Sunday and was told he was feeding every Wednesday w/ live rats. I attempted to feed him last night but he would only hammer the rat with his closed mouth, never an open strike and has now buried himself in the substrate. None of these behaviors are really concerning to me at this point because I am sure he is just not ready to eat and wants to be left alone. But I am curious to know if any of you have had the same issue when transferring a snake to the new home, and how long it took before they would eat.
I do plan on trying to to switch to f/t once feeding is established. Malakai is about 6 months (allegedly) and weighs 497 grams.
Last edited by Cforlizzo; 11-15-2018 at 10:18 AM.
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Craiga 01453 (11-15-2018)
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Welcome to the forum! Congrats on your new blood as well. Is this your first snake?
Interesting. My Borneo boy is a bit of a pain in the rear as far as eating goes. But he never refuses live and is always a beast when live is offered....F/T is a different story.
But I've never seen that closed mouth behavior before in any of my snakes.
Thanks for adding an interesting thread. I'll be looking forward to more replies.
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Re: Feeding new blood
I am new to owning snakes. We ( my sons and myself) also have a very young ball, that only weighs 78 grams. I am aware of the challenges with the bloods and I am certainly willing to put in the time and effort to make him comfortable with us. He is fairly thick already and I will monitor his weight until regular feeding is established. I appreciate the response.
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Re: Feeding new blood
Originally Posted by Cforlizzo
I am new to owning snakes. We ( my sons and myself) also have a very young ball, that only weighs 78 grams. I am aware of the challenges with the bloods and I am certainly willing to put in the time and effort to make him comfortable with us. He is fairly thick already and I will monitor his weight until regular feeding is established. I appreciate the response.
Sounds great!!! Bloods/Short Tails are awesome animals. I'm sure you'll enjoy him.
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Bogertophis (11-23-2018),Craiga 01453 (11-23-2018),Dianne (11-23-2018),Justin83 (11-24-2018),MR Snakes (12-31-2018),Pengil (11-23-2018)
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He's beautiful! And that was going to be my guess, that he's going into shed. It's very hard to tell when you're new at keeping snakes, but gets easier with
practice; our snakes, however, know long before we do & often they'll refuse food when they sense a shed coming. Of course, prey that's too big can also get
a refusal, & live food is dangerous, especially rats, and especially IF your snake isn't in the mood to eat. Don't worry about your snake not eating throughout a
shed cycle...it's completely normal & they won't starve.
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Cforlizzo (11-23-2018),Craiga 01453 (11-23-2018),MR Snakes (12-31-2018)
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Re: Feeding new blood
He’s a beauty, great color.
Other Snakes:
Hudson 1988 1.0 Colombian rainbow; Yang 2002 1.0 Corn snake; Merlin 2000 1.0 Solomon Island ground boa; Kett 2015 1.0 Diamond Jungle Jaguar carpet python; Dakota 2014 0.0.1 Children’s python
Ball pythons:
Eli 1990 1.0 Normal; Buttercup 2015 1.0 Albino; Artemis 2015 0.1 Dragonfly; Orion 2015 1.0 Banana Pinstripe; Button 2018 1.0 Blue Eyed Lucy; Piper 2018 0.1 Piebald; Belle 2018 0.1 Lemonblast; Sabrina 2017 0.1 Mojave; Selene 2017 0.1 Banana Mojave; Loki 2018 1.0 Pastel Mystic Potion; Cuervo 2018 1.0 Banana Piebald; Claude 2017 1.0 Albino Pastel Spider; Penelope 2016 0.1 Lesser
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He is a beautiful one
1.0 Champange Het Orange Ghost (Theseus)
1.0 Mojave (Zeus)
0.1 Fire (Astraea)
0.1 Dragonfly (Persephone)
0.1 Mystic Majove (Rhea) Aka Zabiatsche
1.0 Spider (Achilles)
0.1 Pastel (Kallisto)
1.0 Cinnamon (Eros)
0.1 Spider Vanilla (Calliope)
0.1 Pinstripe (Thalia)
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Stop it at once, I don't need a blood python lol
1.0 75% SD retic .... 6ft Hector cb17 1.1kg
0.1 coastal X ij carpet... Hielo cb15 8kg
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