Trouble Feeder

[JodanOrNoDan]

No, keep him in his enclosure. When I am trying to get an animal back on feed I will usually try something a little smaller than normal. There is no real rational behind it it just works for me. When I have breeding girls that I am trying to get back on food after laying I always offer a live small instead of the normal medium. I originally started doing this because I get live smalls relatively cheap. It seemed to work so I kept doing it.

[maausen]

No, keep him in his enclosure. When I am trying to get an animal back on feed I will usually try something a little smaller than normal. There is no real rational behind it it just works for me. When I have breeding girls that I am trying to get back on food after laying I always offer a live small instead of the normal medium. I originally started doing this because I get live smalls relatively cheap. It seemed to work so I kept doing it.

How do you go about feeding live inside an enclosure? I’ve got some decorations and whatnot and the two reptile basics hides. It’s just supposed to run around? I’m just trying to figure it out because I want to be able to intervene if needed.

[Newbie39]

How do you go about feeding live inside an enclosure? I’ve got some decorations and whatnot and the two reptile basics hides. It’s just supposed to run around? I’m just trying to figure it out because I want to be able to intervene if needed.

I have some fake plants and stuff. She takes the rat under the plants and eats it. They figure it out. May have to fix stuff after as some of the decorations may get shifted a bit. No biggie.

[maausen]

I have some fake plants and stuff. She takes the rat under the plants and eats it. They figure it out. May have to fix stuff after as some of the decorations may get shifted a bit. No biggie.

Gotcha. This might be a dumb question, but what if the rodent runs into the hide?

[Newbie39]

Gotcha. This might be a dumb question, but what if the rodent runs into the hide?

Ah. Just noticed you mentioned you feed live. I feed f/t.


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[Godzilla78]

Just put the rodent in there and wait. Usually within minutes or even seconds, I hear a THUMP, as the snake strikes and constricts the poor little rat! If the snake doesn;t attack the rat within 5 minutes, it is not hungry, or is stressed out for some reason.

Feeding live is SO EASY it is feeding pre-killed that is difficult for many snakes.

[JodanOrNoDan]

Just put the rodent in there and wait. Usually within minutes or even seconds, I hear a THUMP, as the snake strikes and constricts the poor little rat! If the snake doesn;t attack the rat within 5 minutes, it is not hungry, or is stressed out for some reason.

Feeding live is SO EASY it is feeding pre-killed that is difficult for many snakes.

This is generally correct but it really depends on the animal. My most extreme example is a male I have that is too tame. He will only eat FT rats. Runs from live. Has never eaten live.

I do not recommend the following but it is a qwerk of this particular animal and it took me a long time to figure it out because it is so abnormal and against everything we are taught. This boy does not strike. He will only eat if I hand feed him and hold the rat so that it touches his nose. He just casually takes it into his mouth then wraps it. Strange animal. No other animal I have has ever acted like this. I keep waiting for him to get riled up one day and tag me but it has been years and I have never seen this guy get excited once.