Feeding advice for yellow rat

[Mikoh4792]

You don't need to keep it in a dark room, you just need to provide cover that is dark and tight. And covering the sides of the enclosure will help as well, the room it is in can be bright as day.

Some people say not to compare captive snakes to wild snakes, but sometimes it's reasonable. The environment for wild ratsnakes are bright and sunny in the day, and if they are not out moving, they will be hiding in a dark space. Try to recreate it that by giving it dark places to hide, regardless of the ambient light during the day.

[poomwah]

Originally Posted by Mikoh4792

You don't need to keep it in a dark room, you just need to provide cover that is dark and tight. And covering the sides of the enclosure will help as well, the room it is in can be bright as day.

Some people say not to compare captive snakes to wild snakes, but sometimes it's reasonable. The environment for wild ratsnakes are bright and sunny in the day, and if they are not out moving, they will be hiding in a dark space. Try to recreate it that by giving it dark places to hide, regardless of the ambient light during the day.

gotcha, sorry, I had so many people tell me the snake needs to be in a dark room that I thought that's what you meant. And now Korbin with his crap has got me so paranoid that I use the flash on my camera I'm going to get accused of stressing the snake out.

And I'm sorry if noone is going to convince me that the snake is not eating because it's stressed. Mikoh, regardless of what a few people have been saying about my lack of experience, this isn't my first goat f&*k. I've dealt with a lot of snakes before, this snake does not act like she's stressed, she acts like she's hungry. I've seen this before , trying to get WC kings and garters to eat mice.
When I first started this thread it was to make sure I have all my bases covered. And I'm confident now that I do. I'm also 100 percent confident that this snake is not stressed out.