Funny Feeding Story

[frankykeno]

Around here feeding night is Wednesday. We went into the BP room and started our normal feeding routines, the small 06's get fed first, then the 05's and so on up to the oldest BP's. One of the 06's, a female named Cara, was in active shed with a lovely complete shed rolled about halfway down her body. Noting this I just closed her tub and went to move on to her neighbour beside her, Muirne. These 06's are in glass clear Iris tubs and as Mike and I are moving along feeding rat pups to the rest of the 06's we see Cara doing the funniest thing.

She's wiggling around, trying to keep an eye on us, obviously keyed right into those yummy rat pups she so loves and she's shedding at top speed. LOL Sort of like "hey wait! wait! I'm almost done! wait! don't forget me!!!!"

Needless to say little Miss Cara whipped that lovely complete shed off in record time and got her reward of a rat pup for her trouble. Mike and I just had to chuckle at the little girl trying so hard to get finished up in time for dinner.

Side note: got another mouser over to rats (an 05 female named Morag), so that leaves us with only 3 BP's out of 13 that still are refusing rats. Getting there slow but sure.

[rabernet]

Awww, sweet, sweet Cara! I can so picture her - if a ball python could look worried, what that would look like! LL

[frankykeno]

I really must get off my butt and do a new set of collections pictures. They are all growing so much and some of them are changing a bit as they mature. Sweet Cara remains a flat out gorgeous girl and you cannot beat her feeding response LOL. Riordan is definitely looking forward to the day this girlie matures!

[rabernet]

I knew she was gorgeous when I kept being drawn back to her table in Daytona! LOL


I would love to see updated pictures of that lovely girl!

[catawhat75]

Too cute

[bearhart]

That's funny!

How did she do it? I've only seen mine do it once and he was coiled up and going in perfect circles. I was watching him in his hide and I could see his patterns moving and about every 15 seconds or so I could see his head go by. It was like a little snake merry-go-round. I've been curious ever since if they have different ways of getting the shed off. It must be tough with no arms!!!

[frankykeno]

I've been lucky enough to watch a few of ours actually shedding and most do exactly what little Cara did, just undulate. Sort of flexing their muscles in wave after wave as the shed rolls back. Some will slither about using the sides of their enclosures to peel back the shed. Cara just amped up the wave action and got that shed off quick as a wink.

Doesn't seem that difficult for them. Remember they have a liquid layer between old and new skin and often fresh sheds are soaking wet so I assume it slides off easy enough on that layer of liquid.

[bearhart]

Yea I still don't understand what is actually happening there. It seems like they have a layer of scales attached to skin underneath. How a layer of skin comes off of the top of all that still baffles me.