Feeding Video/Questions.

[Jay]

I have 6 snakes left to feed tomorrow I thought it would be a good Idea to make a video of the whole process. I was also wondering what is every ones feeding routine? How many animals do you feed? What do you feed and sizes of the feeder, do you use tubs? At my apartment I only have my favorite specimens here, my others are back home with my familly who are more than able to provide proper care. Here is what I have here;

0.1 BCC Guyana
1.2 Sonoran Gopher
0.1 Jungle Jag Carpet
0.1 Jungle x Diamond Carpet
8.13 Yellow Lab Cichlids
5.6 Lethrinops
1.0 Mutt
Savanna Monitor

More than enough to keep me busy while I earn my Diploma In Sales Management.

[stephanbakir]

I only have Kirana right now, but she takes 6-7 medium, or 5 large rats a week, normally in about 10 minutes flat.
Always feed in cage.

[Jay]

Your Taiwan Beauty?

[stephanbakir]

Yeh, before you give me tell me I'm feeding her too much, keep in mind shes got perfect body shape, and almost 8 feet long and not even a year old :P Shes a behemoth, with the body of an arboreal lol.

[Jay]

Nothing I can really say, accept you do know what your doing or you would not have defended your self before I responded.

[stephanbakir]

Something is off with her genetics lol, they should only get to 7 feet as mature adults, 4-5 feet in the first year is rare, and for some reason shes almost 8 feet long before her first year, shes also wider then most females are then they ovulate, yet she has the same body shape as a normal healthy adult. It's really weird lol, she also wants to eat more then I feed her but I like my snakes "trim"

[NennaMeerkat]

I have one little hoggie and I feed her with a toad scented large mouse pink once a week OR when I noticed that she has pooed. I was gonna feed her today but she has gone into deep hiding and for me to fish around in her cage a good deal will, I am afraid, stress her where she won't eat. Gonna wait for her to show herself and then introduce food again. She eats in a small plastic hollow hide, won't eat outside her tank anymore. Dunno why.

Also I enjoy watching videos of eating as long as they aren't 10+ min long.

[Jay]

I will be editing out the slow parts

[brylecc1989]

I feed six snakes. My carpet gets a medium rat a week, 2 medium mice for the bcc and Retic a week. 3 pinkies each for the corn snake and kingsnake. and my rainbow gets tube fed. They all have eaten successfully since i got them in their tanks except the rainbow boa. she just wont eat. costs 20 bucks a week on average buying mostly small bulk at expos.

[stephanbakir]

Wait hold up, is the retic a SD? because otherwise, a baby just out of the egg can eat a fuzzy rat.
Why you tube feeding the rainbow?

[Jay]

Not sure if a Dominican Boa Constrictor falls under bcc Its an Island form much smaller. Cn you post a picture?

[Jay]

Wait hold up, is the retic a SD? because otherwise, a baby just out of the egg can eat a fuzzy rat.
Why you tube feeding the rainbow?

I hope he ment TUB

[brylecc1989]

Stephan im unsure of the genetics of the snake, but she's not ready for the rat imo. The two mice give her a good bulge and she seems content. I'm working on being able to post pics.

Jay-I'll post pics when i can.

[stephanbakir]

K. when you post pics can you show a pic from above showing girth with something for size comparison.

[brylecc1989]

sure ill use a medium rat

[stephanbakir]

sure ill use a medium rat
Might be a bad idea, setting off a feeding response when you don't intend to feed it is bad. Try a bottlecap for a beer bottle, or something everyone knows size wise

[brylecc1989]

i know dude. it was a joke

[NennaMeerkat]

No one might care but I felt like sharing all the same. It seems my little hoggie came out this evening and was sitting in her normal spot where she eats. So I thawed a couple of pinkies and did a good frog scenting. She ended up eating both! I wonder if this means I should consider fuzzies once I get through this last batch of frozen pinks or if I should just keep feeding her multiple pinks for a bit longer?

Any advice?

[mykee]

I feed 120+ plus adult and sub-adult ball pythons every 7-10 days and as many as 250 hatchling ball pythons come this time of year every 3-5 days. babies get live mice for their first two or three meals, and then f/t rat pups.
Adults (even the big ones) get a f/t rat that is no larger than 125g.

[marionsclan]

I feed 120+ plus adult and sub-adult ball pythons every 7-10 days and as many as 250 hatchling ball pythons come this time of year every 3-5 days. babies get live mice for their first two or three meals, and then f/t rat pups.
Adults (even the big ones) get a f/t rat that is no larger than 125g.

I'm not too familiar with the weight of rats. Is 125g a normal sized rat? And if so, will that type of food keep them at their current weight or will they continue to grow still?

[marionsclan]

My feeding schedule is once a week and I feed my adult Amber Corn a f/t mouse and my sub adult BP a live rat weanling/pub, but going to try f/k weanling/pub for the first time this weekend.

I've heard that rats are nutritionally better than mice so should I switched the Corn over to rat pub?

[stephanbakir]

I've heard that rats are nutritionally better than mice so should I switched the Corn over to rat pub?
If shes big enough then go for a rat pup.

[Max713]

Scarlett takes an XXL (380-400g)a rat every 14 days, and has a feeding response of a 1980's shark horror movie... She eats like a pig!

[NennaMeerkat]

Now I am contemplating switching over to a rat pinky. Seems my hog will readily eat 2 mouse pinkies now...but if rats ARE more nutritious I know for a fact one rat pink is bigger than mouse pinkies. Since I am already having to toad scent I bet it would be easy to switch to a rat pup. Ug! Now I just dunno.

[marionsclan]

Originally Posted by marionsclan http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/images/grunged/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/general-discussion/87541-feeding-video-questions-2.html#post622793)
I've heard that rats are nutritionally better than mice so should I switched the Corn over to rat pub?
If shes big enough then go for a rat pup.

Hey, I had beer on my mind. Sue me! ;)

[Lankyrob]

My feeding schedule is once a week and I feed my adult Amber Corn a f/t mouse and my sub adult BP a live rat weanling/pub, but going to try f/k weanling/pub for the first time this weekend.

I've heard that rats are nutritionally better than mice so should I switched the Corn over to rat pub?

Corns are reknowned for getting fat later in life - no need for the extra nutrition from rats they can stay on mice for life. My adult takes anXL mouse every 14 day and that maintains his weight/condition nicely.

[SpOoKy]

My adult boa Dozer gets a large rat every week, my ball is not on a schedule really just when I see her out hunting which works out too be every 2-3 weeks. She is super picky when it comes to feeding so I find if I try to schedule it I usually end up having to throw out a perfectly good rat. Spooky my baby boa gets a small fuzzy every 5 days or so. My larger bull snake gets 2 large pinkies every 5 days and my small bull Jaws gets a big pinky every 5 days. Although the feeding usually works out to be so many days apart I always wait to see when they are asking for food. If they aren't out looking in 5 days then they get fed when they do hunt, may be 6,7 days, sometimes 4 days. I leave all the meals up to them to tell me when they are hungry.

[Jay]

I'm working on the video now.