Crap!! What just happened!!@!$@#

[Chocolate Muffin's]

Something interesting I learned on a python show I was watching last night....

The tube that was sticking out of the snakes' mouth while it was trying to eat was its windpipe. It's how the snake breathes while it eats large prey. It also has one small lung and one lung the length of its body, but I digress...

The point is, you did the right thing by being there, and able to assist. These are very hardy creatures and they are really an example of fine engineering.

Sorry that you had to go through that, it is terrifying when something like that happens during a feeding. Good job for watching and promptly reacting

[AkHerps]

Yeah, I knew he was able to breathe because his windpipe was sticking out the side but his tongue was limply flailing and he got extremely weak after 15 minutes of trying to rub his face against things and was doing something along the lines of a snake panting like a dog.

It actually wasn't very difficult to put his jaws back in place. I just had to push them gently in the right directions and when he yawned everything was okay. I didn't reach in his mouth, just pushed from the outside.

It was just super scary seeing him without the bottom half of his face!

[reggi-BP]

the mouse was a lil to big for him probably but hell i havent even got mine to eat but next time u try since hes eating a f/t but i doubt it ill get a live one for mine an prays he eats

[AkHerps]

I'm going to try and find the smallest mouse I can. Our only pet store is Petco...T_T...which killed all of our other awesome pet stores which sold live fuzzies and hoppers a couple years ago...Petco gets their shipments of mice in on Wednesdays, which happens to be Petrie's feeding day, so I'm going to go every wednesday and try ad get their smallest mice, which they usually keep in the back.

Just leave the live mouse in his tank for an hour plus and he will probably get the idea.

[JibbaJabba]

Just leave the live mouse in his tank for an hour plus and he will probably get the idea.

I have two faunariums from exo terra where I keep a hatchling in:



The great thing about it is that a third can be seperated with some plastic divider so you can leave the mouse in the same enclosure which then will smell quite good (especially males) and then you can remove the divider once you want to supervise the feed.

I am talking about the PT2310 here btw. - the large one with two openings

[freezingdwarf]

Wow that sounds crazy. Thanks for sharing that, because i have never heard of such a thing. This is my first year breeding and will be offering my second clutch their first meal soon. I will definitely be supervising. I hope I dont have to do what you described, but at least I know it is recoverable.

[mechnut450]

i ssay give him smaller prey as well ( if need to st start getting them off a breeder or breed own ) I think being so mall it possible the jaw bones are weak or have been broken to the point when you fed this time they reborke adnd that caused the twisiting of them as ate. ( but that only a possible ideal)

[AkHerps]

I don't think they broke, his face would have shown swelling.

[AkHerps]

Just fed him an even smaller mouse than the first one he ate, he had a little trouble, tried to do it butt first haha, then got it down head first, it looked like his jaws were going to do the same thing, but he got it down normally and is doing good!!