Good question.Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy
The answer is yes and no.
The boa is the one I pay close attention to with seasonal changes. He naturally has a decrease in appetite and activity when fall and winter hit, and he picks up in the spring. I slightly adjust temps and certainly cut daylight hours back from 12 to around 8.
The royal and carpet are very picky. The carpet is a very strange eater. In my book a pain in the butt and annoying. She usually goes 2 months between meals. Live, fresh kill, frozen thawed, rat, quail or rabbit doesn't matter. She eats when she's ready and usually has a long, irritating ritual of crawling around, sniffing, acting ready and then slinking off and coming back.
I feed her and the royal when they are ready. Usually I pick a time when the boa is ready, except winter, so I have a place to drop the refusal.
The retic is also picky, but he is consistent usually and I want him started off slowly anyhow.
I love seeing videos of folks with large collections feeding 10, 12, 20 snakes with no refusals LOL!
Its rare that I have a day where all four hit it at once.
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