Do You Feed White Or Coloured???

[COLDBLOODED262]

i know but when all other option has been expired and there is nothing stress related or health problems changing up the prey item may help

[MeMe]

Actually, non-feeding is more likely a direct result of something wrong with their environment, rather than the prey that's offered. I like to help new keepers get their animals set up properly before suggesting that they try a different prey item.

deja vu???

My snakes eat whatever I put in there. Which means that their husbandry is correct and they are healthy. It has nothing to do with the color of the prey they are getting.

oh...that's why.

[rabernet]

deja vu???

Haha! Great minds and all!

i know but when all other option has been expired and there is nothing stress related or health problems changing up the prey item may help

I've never had to change prey for a reluctant feeder. I just keep tweaking until I find out what's "tweaked" them - and then they eat.

[COLDBLOODED262]

ok everyone has good arguments all i got to say is nobody is exactly sure what a BPs true habits are but i feel mixing up the snake diet with different colores,sizes,and even breeds of prey animal might be better for the snake mental development as well as physycal.

Now can we please change the subject

[Gooseman]

BP's are imprint feeders... They don''t prefer change...

[MeMe]

ok everyone has good arguments all i got to say is nobody is exactly sure what a BPs true habits are but i feel mixing up the snake diet with different colores,sizes,and even breeds of prey animal might be better for the snake mental development as well as physycal.

Whatever that means.

Now can we please change the subject

why???

[COLDBLOODED262]

i dont know would you lik eating the exact same thing for your entire life and i know that in the wild there is no way BPs only ate one specific animal. They probably ate a variety of different tings from rats, gerbils, small birds,if they think it can fit in their mouth they will probably try and eat it if they are hungry.

[Gooseman]

look at the vast amount of threads here about ball pythons in captivity that get stuck on one type of food and refuse to switch until pretty much starved enough they'd eat something else... In the wild they don't exactly get their weekly meal handed to them... they eat what they can, when they can, because that's all they got. In captivity this is not an issue and "variety" would be placed under the column of "stress factors" that cause problems in successful keeping.

[MeMe]

i dont know would you lik eating the exact same thing for your entire life

No...but I am not a snake.

and i know that in the wild there is no way BPs only ate one specific animal. They probably ate a variety of different tings from rats, gerbils, small birds

you are correct in that they will eat a variety of things in the wild. but we are talking about snakes being kept in captivity.

734943if they think it can fit in their mouth they will probably try and eat it if they are hungry.

I disagree.

[LadyOhh]

You, Mister Cold Blooded, are ANTHROPOMORPHISING.

I hope you understand what I mean by that.