constrictors?

[lanalizard]

hi, i have 2 corns snakes..young ones.

They have always eaten normally when i put down the pinkie in the cage, they just start eating it....but lately my oldest, casper, has been striking it before i can put it down and coiling around it..what can trigger this different behaviour from him?

[nuno]

Was the pinky alive? cause mybe it reacted to the movement.

[lanalizard]

nope, i do not feed live at all! never have and he started to do that.

[eyespy]

Maybe it's just a part of his growth process, he's feeling like a big guy now and strong enough to put the squeeze on his prey. ;)

It's hard to say why the constricting instinct kicks in after awhile but your story isn't the first one I've heard.

[Lisa]

one of my kings does this sometimes, our corns don't do it at all. it's nothing to worry about

[Weather1]

2 of my 3 corns do that. It all happened when I moved them from pinkies to fuzzies.