Feeding Poll

[Mark Taylor]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

We really don't need another sticky unless they plan on moving them all to a sticky only forum.

I have joined into this type of conversation so many times it's not funny but let me highlight my normal points. A dead feeder can't hurt the snake. A person that feeds live for pleasure is a tool. Frozen is more convenient for me. A snake eating live food isn't hunting. Your snake usually doesn't care what it's fed. If your snake won't eat a live prey what do you do with it?

And your thoughts on separate enclosure or own

[KORBIN5895]

Enclosure all the way unless you are cohabit. Then you either feed one in a separate enclosure or you feed on separate days and then remove the one not being fed.

[StudentoReptile]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

A person that feeds live for pleasure is a tool.

I can't speak for anyone else, but live/prekilled/FT...it doesn't matter a hill of beans to me. It's still a chore to feed my snakes. The only pleasure I derive from the task is that my animal is eating and not starving.

A snake eating live food isn't hunting.

Perhaps, but for those species which are predominantly ambush predators (ball pythons for example), live prey is more conducive to their natural feeding behavior.

If your snake won't eat a live prey what do you do with it?

Take it out and put it back in the tub with the other rats until the snake is ready to eat. Of course, my snakes are healthy, and I rarely encounter this problem.

[Freebody]

I recommend feeding FT, and feeding in the enclosure, but you do what you got to do as far as basing decisions on said snake, so I almost clicked that one. some snakes eat only live, some snakes need a small dark little box to eat in....