From my excel records this week. 5 year old male yellow tail cribo (Zeppo).Originally Posted by Mike41793
I liked the info in the post and the story to go along with it. I can't be philosophical like any of you guys but my .02cents is:
Observing your snakes and learning about their individual behaviors/quirks/tics/whatever is the best piece of advice you can give to any new keeper. The most recent example of that i can think of is Tiffany's poor enchi Leo. When he was sick only handling him would help the swelling in his head go down. Not drugs or surgery or anything, just handling him. Sorta blew my mind and is something that still doesn't make sense to me, but it's not a story i'll soon forget.
EDIT: next time I'm scraping urates out of the corners of the tubs, since my snakes can never piss/crap on the newspaper, i'm calling uncle skippy so he can come over and ying and yang a little with me
Fed two small rats on 9/8/13.
Pooped on the 9th, the 10th and the 14th.
I always chuckle when I read posts about boa and python owners worried that their snakes aren't passing weekly movements. What I'd give for once a week movements that don't look vomited peanut butter, smell like a dead skunk and have to be scraped with a putty knife off of the walls, floors and corners.
Again, the reward is interacting with the animal (removing him from the enclosure), and then getting satisfaction from thoroughly cleaning the cage and putting him back in. One "chore" that results in at least two rewards.
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