Quote Originally Posted by Kaorte View Post
They swallow animals WHOLE. teeth, nails and bone. Their mouths are meant to take a beating. A little piece of substrate will not harm them.

As for substrate ingestion, because snakes can digest bone and hair, a small bit of substrate will not cause impaction. If you feed F/T just lay down some paper towel and put the prey item on that.
Alright thanks :]. All of my snakes are so horrible when it comes to feeding in the enclosure. My colubrids always swallow a piece or two of the substrate. Though, my King snake is very smart. Probably one of the smartest snakes of my collection. When he eats, he tries to get the pieces of substrate on the side of his mouth so when he finishes only a little bit of the pieces are in his mouth so he'll go over and rub his mouth against his hide or the water dish to get the pieces out of his mouth. Throughout the entire time I've had him, he really hasn't been in a whole lot of stress and he deals with things pretty well. Like his visit to the vet, he gave the people a hard time to open up his mouth, but he did pretty good and was completely friendly. The vet said since we put him through some stress he may regurgitate the food items you gave to him yesterday because when snakes are stressed they will sometimes regurgitate their food items. Though, when he got back, no sign of a food item spit up in the cage. He has never regurgitated a mouse either, so he does pretty well.