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EmilyS
11-25-13, 04:03 PM
I have recently started my first year in college; since I am no longer home often enough to feed my two corn snakes weekly, I put their feeding in the control of my younger brother.

Well for some reason he was unable to feed them today, so he handed the task over to my sister. Unfortunately, he forgot to show her how to feed them. I just got a call from my sister double checking that it was ok to feed them frozen frozen mice (no dethaw). I told her of course not, but it was too late as one of the two snakes had already started eating.

This is probably bad right? What will happen? What should I do?
marvelfreak
11-25-13, 06:47 PM
Make sure your heat is up and hope it doesn't throw it up.
KORBIN5895
11-25-13, 06:59 PM
If that snake actually ate a frozen mouse it is probably as good as dead.
EmilyS
11-25-13, 10:54 PM
Make sure your heat is up and hope it doesn't throw it up.

Alright, thank you. Heat is up so I'm hoping for the best.

If that snake actually ate a frozen mouse it is probably as good as dead.

Thank you, that was very helpful.
KORBIN5895
11-25-13, 11:16 PM
I responded to your last line. I have a hard time believing that a snake woyld eat a frozen rat.
lady_bug87
11-26-13, 01:24 PM
I'm also having a hard time believing the rat was frozen solid.
Concept9
11-26-13, 02:00 PM
ACK . . . .

I have to agree with lady_bug87 that a snake will not eat a frozen mouse. I wanna hear the out come of this.
warehouse13fan
11-26-13, 02:16 PM
It actually will eat a frozen mouse, I've seen it happen before
Concept9
11-26-13, 02:24 PM
It actually will eat a frozen mouse, I've seen it happen before

That's good know. Not that I would ever feed one to any of mine.
robertjnovak59
11-26-13, 04:40 PM
I've wondered if anyone's ever done that before. Are the snakes ok? I wouldn't think it'd kill them.
lady_bug87
11-26-13, 05:03 PM
That's so weird
KORBIN5895
11-26-13, 07:30 PM
I've wondered if anyone's ever done that before. Are the snakes ok? I wouldn't think it'd kill them.

Think it through. An ecotherm has an ice cube sitting in its stomach.
robertjnovak59
11-27-13, 05:32 AM
Think it through. An ecotherm has an ice cube sitting in its stomach.

Corn snakes are pretty hardy snakes, I'd imagine the snakes temperature would drop a few degrees, depending on the size of snake and the size of the mouse, but would that be enough to kill it?
Mikoh4792
11-27-13, 05:38 AM
I think a snake would go into thermal shock if it swallowed a frozen mouse.
KORBIN5895
11-27-13, 07:31 AM
Corn snakes are pretty hardy snakes, I'd imagine the snakes temperature would drop a few degrees, depending on the size of snake and the size of the mouse, but would that be enough to kill it?

A few degrees? Seriously? The snake has no way to warm itself up except by whatever the ambient temps and the hot spot is. The mouse is going to take a while to thaw out.
robertjnovak59
11-27-13, 08:05 AM
I just realized that Captain America was the only one who gave her any advice. I hope the snake comes out of this ok. Good luck.
Kid Boa
11-27-13, 08:23 AM
I just realized that Captain America was the only one who gave her any advice. I hope the snake comes out of this ok. Good luck.

Probably because he was the first one to comment and there isn't really much you can do but heat him up and pray.
lady_bug87
11-27-13, 09:14 AM
What kind of advice are we supposed to give? Damage is done. If it ate it, it will either regurge it and maybe die, keep it down and maybe die or it could spit it out

I'm really not sure what we can tell them...
robertjnovak59
11-27-13, 09:32 AM
I'm not calling anyone out here, I didn't offer anything useful either. In hindsight, maybe soak it in warm water. I don't know what, if anything, could have helped. I'd like to know if the snakes ok.
Hotchkiss
11-27-13, 09:41 AM
I'm not calling anyone out here, I didn't offer anything useful either. In hindsight, maybe soak it in warm water. I don't know what, if anything, could have helped. I'd like to know if the snakes ok.
This is actually a really good idea, Soak it for a while...
Mellik's mamma
11-27-13, 12:05 PM
yeah i want to know how the snake does, too. we all do i am sure. just curious, would it be better if it did regurgitate it? or this also pretty horrible? i am a bit mad at the sis for feeding w/o getting an answer first. grrrr.
Hotchkiss
11-28-13, 11:06 AM
*Violently waiting for an update*
yoyo
11-28-13, 11:26 AM
I have kept snakes for the majority of my life. I'm not saying I am any kind of expert but if I had to guess on a outcome I would say he will regurgitate the meal before letting it kill him. The fact that a snake will swallow a frozen mouse doesn't surprise me I've had Hondurans start to swallow themselves.
EmilyS
11-28-13, 12:51 PM
Sorry for not updating you guys right away. I was able to come home for Thanksgiving and see the snake for myself. He doesn't look or act any differently so I think he's going to be ok. I'll have to make sure to show my sister how to properly feed the snakes so this doesn't happen again.

Thank you for the help! I can post more updates if you'd like later.
Concept9
11-28-13, 01:00 PM
Sorry for not updating you guys right away. I was able to come home for Thanksgiving and see the snake for myself. He doesn't look or act any differently so I think he's going to be ok. I'll have to make sure to show my sister how to properly feed the snakes so this doesn't happen again.

Thank you for the help! I can post more updates if you'd like later.

Great to here. :)

You may want to have a look around the cage and see if he regurgitated anywhere.

I tent think that the mouse may not have been as frozen as your sister let on.

Again, great to hear everything looks good. :)