Gopher snake care and info.

[Bitis_Gabonica]

Read my sig.

[Bitis_Gabonica]

Adults should feed on a large rat or mouse every 5-7 days.

[wilomn]

Adults should feed on a large rat or mouse every 5-7 days.

Adult should be fed a large mouse/rat once every 14 days.

Perhaps you can see my confusion.

[Bitis_Gabonica]

Yup. I have no clue what I was thinking when I first typed this on a different forum as far as feeding goes.

[wilomn]

Also, unless several decades of keeping are wrong, pine is ok. Same for kings.

[Bitis_Gabonica]

Also, unless several decades of keeping are wrong, pine is ok. Same for kings.

Really?? I have always read and have been told that it is toxic due to excess dust.

[Skiploder]

Really?? I have always read and have been told that it is toxic due to excess dust.

Dust isn't the claimed health issue - phenols are.

Back in the good old days, before there were internet forums and caresheets, many of us old farts kept their snakes on pine.

I had quite a few old snakes that lived long, productive and apparently healthy lives on pine.

All these young turks keeping snakes (in some cases for many months!) have repeatedly informed me that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

So I have come to the conclusion that I was obviously the exception to the rule - after all, all these people citing what they've heard or what they've read can't be wrong. Can they?

[grits]

Also, unless several decades of keeping are wrong, pine is ok. Same for kings.

Thats what we use too sometimes. I always thought it was ceader (SP) shavings that were toxic to reptiles because of the oil that is in it.