Eating

[mattramsfan]

i do feed live food. sorry! but i guess that is just my personal preference. i know people have their doubts on live feeding. but i thought it was weird that mine tried to eat it like 4 different times and then he finally ate in backwards!

[nixer]

you should see it when they try to eat it from the middle

[JeffJ]

i do feed live food. sorry! but i guess that is just my personal preference. i know people have their doubts on live feeding. but i thought it was weird that mine tried to eat it like 4 different times and then he finally ate in backwards!

there is absolutely no issue with live feeding as long as its done correctly. I feed live, so do my family members with BP's

[JeffJ]

you should see it when they try to eat it from the middle

my b p did this with a fuzzie, swallowed the thing the whole way cockeyed as as could be. took him forever but he got it.

[mattramsfan]

well i put it in a different cage when we feed. and only let the rat stay only for 30 minutes or so... but he always eats in like 3 minutes.

[Kaorte]

well i put it in a different cage when we feed. and only let the rat stay only for 30 minutes or so... but he always eats in like 3 minutes.

There is really no need to feed into a seperate container. The risks really outweigh the benefits.

I hope you don't leave the rat unattended! There is nothing wrong with feeding live, I have done it before, but prefer F/T because it is more convenient (ex: I don't have to go out and get live feeders, I just freeze a bunch). Just make sure you keep an eye on that rat while it is with your BP, don't want any nasty bites.

[bobbyd6929]

Is it normal for a ball python to try and eat its mice tail first? We have 1 that is bound and determined to eat a mouse tail first.

when I first got my girl she too tried to eat her mouse backward so when she released it after gnawing on its butt I turned it around with by the tail and she bit the head and that was it.

[mattramsfan]

yes i watch my snake very closely. and i do not leave the room until the mouse is dead. once it is dead i go what i need to do for bout 20 min and come back and he is done. sooo he is always being watched when he eats

[Slim]

That's the problem though, she tries it tail first and can't get it in so she gives up and goes somewhere else.

What I'm saying is, she'll figure it out before she starves...trust me.

i do feed live food. sorry! but i guess that is just my personal preference. i know people have their doubts on live feeding. but i thought it was weird that mine tried to eat it like 4 different times and then he finally ate in backwards!

No worries with feeding live. The best thing to feed is what your BP will eat, be it live, F/T, mice, rats, gerbils, or new born puppies....ok, not puppies, but you get my point.

[mattramsfan]

haha. ya i get the point. well for right now he seems to love the live stuff. he has never hesitated to eat a meal when we have offered it the first time. he always eats. i am actually surprised because everyone says how there snakes a really picky eaters. i have never had a problem.