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11-25-13, 04:03 PM
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Oh siblings- feeding question
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?
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11-25-13, 06:47 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
Make sure your heat is up and hope it doesn't throw it up.
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11-25-13, 06:59 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
If that snake actually ate a frozen mouse it is probably as good as dead.
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11-25-13, 10:54 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
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Originally Posted by marvelfreak
Make sure your heat is up and hope it doesn't throw it up.
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Alright, thank you. Heat is up so I'm hoping for the best.
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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895
If that snake actually ate a frozen mouse it is probably as good as dead.
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Thank you, that was very helpful.
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11-25-13, 11:16 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
I responded to your last line. I have a hard time believing that a snake woyld eat a frozen rat.
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11-26-13, 01:24 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
I'm also having a hard time believing the rat was frozen solid.
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11-26-13, 02:00 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
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.
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11-26-13, 02:16 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
It actually will eat a frozen mouse, I've seen it happen before
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11-26-13, 02:24 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
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Originally Posted by warehouse13fan
It actually will eat a frozen mouse, I've seen it happen before
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That's good know. Not that I would ever feed one to any of mine.
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11-26-13, 04:40 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
I've wondered if anyone's ever done that before. Are the snakes ok? I wouldn't think it'd kill them.
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11-26-13, 05:03 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
That's so weird
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11-26-13, 07:30 PM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
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Originally Posted by robertjnovak59
I've wondered if anyone's ever done that before. Are the snakes ok? I wouldn't think it'd kill them.
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Think it through. An ecotherm has an ice cube sitting in its stomach.
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11-27-13, 05:32 AM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895
Think it through. An ecotherm has an ice cube sitting in its stomach.
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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?
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11-27-13, 05:38 AM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
I think a snake would go into thermal shock if it swallowed a frozen mouse.
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11-27-13, 07:31 AM
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Re: Oh siblings- feeding question
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Originally Posted by robertjnovak59
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?
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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.
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