Sophia'sSophia
02-08-14, 03:22 PM
I've been asked numerous times to post about feeding my snakes, and I've finally stopped being lazy about doing it. Excuse the floor, though, the mess is due to making a skirt this weekend. ^__^
This is Babu, she's very voracious and never shy. I like to feed her outside the enclosure (sometimes outdoors, snake picnics are adorable :3--<), mostly because while her enclosure smells like food she upturns all the substrate looking for it.
This time the salmon was cut from a thick section, so the pieces are kind of rectangular. When the salmon is cut from a thin section, I cut it in larger triangles. Usually her meals are slightly larger, but I ran out of fish today.
When feeding fish to your snakes, you must make sure it is of a species lacking in thiaminase. I recommend tilapia and salmon as they're so easy to find (skewing towards salmon due to the added nutrients of skin and scales). Supplements are easy to forget about, but they aren't necessary to keep to a schedule! Sometimes I dip a piece in calcium, but you could also just feed it a mouse every once in a while. :)
If a snake won't take dead fish (even when wiggled and such) on land, then there's always the option of adding chunks of dead fish to the water bowl, and if that doesn't work, live fish accompanied by the chunks. I like to go with guppies when I need a live fish to tempt with.
The album won't upload, but here's a link to the pictures I took during today's feeding.
Babu Eatting - Imgur (http://imgur.com/a/98She)
This is Babu, she's very voracious and never shy. I like to feed her outside the enclosure (sometimes outdoors, snake picnics are adorable :3--<), mostly because while her enclosure smells like food she upturns all the substrate looking for it.
This time the salmon was cut from a thick section, so the pieces are kind of rectangular. When the salmon is cut from a thin section, I cut it in larger triangles. Usually her meals are slightly larger, but I ran out of fish today.
When feeding fish to your snakes, you must make sure it is of a species lacking in thiaminase. I recommend tilapia and salmon as they're so easy to find (skewing towards salmon due to the added nutrients of skin and scales). Supplements are easy to forget about, but they aren't necessary to keep to a schedule! Sometimes I dip a piece in calcium, but you could also just feed it a mouse every once in a while. :)
If a snake won't take dead fish (even when wiggled and such) on land, then there's always the option of adding chunks of dead fish to the water bowl, and if that doesn't work, live fish accompanied by the chunks. I like to go with guppies when I need a live fish to tempt with.
The album won't upload, but here's a link to the pictures I took during today's feeding.
Babu Eatting - Imgur (http://imgur.com/a/98She)