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Im so confused on waht i should start feeding her after this feed, cause i know she likes live hoppers that is what the previous owners fed her for 2 years, and have neer tried dead. i dont know if i should order 3 dead and 3 live just in case she wont eat the dead?
I dont know if i should keep her eating hoppers or move her to a mouse? im sooo confused!
Im so confused on waht i should start feeding her after this feed, cause i know she likes live hoppers that is what the previous owners fed her for 2 years, and have neer tried dead. i dont know if i should order 3 dead and 3 live just in case she wont eat the dead?
I dont know if i should keep her eating hoppers or move her to a mouse? im sooo confused!
It can be quite confusing- so many different opinions out there!
Here is what I recommend:
Switch her over to f/t adult mice starting with the next feed. Corns usually switch over pretty easily. For her next feed, you should order a frozen adult mouse. We've given you lots of reasons for switching over to frozen/thawed prey, and how to do it. Remember the post I made about how to thaw the mouse? It's a few pages back
Do not order live prey "just in case she doesn't eat". Have faith that she will. That being said, if you offered her live prey after a failed frozen attempt, she'll assume that if she refuses the frozen, she'll get the live option. You want her to see the frozen/thawed mouse as her only choice of food. She'll eventually take it. If she doesn't take it the first time, don't give up. Sometimes it takes a while. But don't give up the fight! It is totally possible to do. Snakes can go a very long time without eating and not lose weight. Missing a meal (or two, or three, or four) won't do her any harm. If anything she'll just be hungrier each time and eventually cave in and eat it It helps if you do what I call "the nom nom dance" with the thawed prey, to entice her. It's to make it look alive. Here is a video of me doing it for my baby ball python so you get an idea of what it looks like:
You should also wait 7-10 days between attempts. Offering her food any more often will only stress her out.
Be persistent, don't stress about it, and success will be yours
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If she is eating 3 hoppers in a week I would move up to 1 mouse. Also when you offer her F/t she might not take it and that's ok. Don't feed live right away just because she refused to eat f/t. Give her a full week with out bugging her at all then offer a nice warm f/t mouse again. After a few weeks she will take them. Snakes CAN go a long time with out eating and have no issues due to that. I switched my BP from live to f/t and he went about 5 months without eating but now he takes f/t like a champ. If you give in the snake will never take f/t.
Ok so for this feeding cause i have no choice but to do the live hoppers as they will be in, in 2 hours. but for the next feeding i should order a forzen mouse? 1 will be good? and if she does not eat it can i re freeze it untill next time i try? and i dont think she eats every week. she eats every second week
I would order a few frozen mice, doesn't hurt to have them on hand. Also I treat my snakes food as I treat my food. I would not thaw a steak then refreeze it for later use. If the snake doesn't eat throw it away and wait 10 days then offer another.
Thats kind of a waist of a rodent don't you think? I will offer uneaten ones that have been frozen twice then I toss them.
Refreezing is never good IMO. It deteriorates the quality of the food. If I ever was to feed f/t and the snake did not eat it, and if there are no other snakes willing to take it, I would throw it away, wasteful as that may seem. That is the downside to feeding f/t but all things considered, thats a small downside.
I'd go with Kat, for the sake of a couple of pounds, why take the risk of making your pet ill.
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Your only young once, but you can be immature your whole damn life :-D
Oh I'm not saying it would make a snake ill, I'm just thinking, why take the chance lady bug.
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Your only young once, but you can be immature your whole damn life :-D
Yes some snakes will eat road kill. If the road kill was fresh I might eat it also depending on the animal. Some snakes in the wild also get very ill and die but if we can prevent having to deal with these issues why wouldn't we?
Yes some snakes will eat road kill. If the road kill was fresh I might eat it also depending on the animal. Some snakes in the wild also get very ill and die but if we can prevent having to deal with these issues why wouldn't we?
Is now a god time to mention I eat road kill? My choice of re-freezing a rodent is I honestly have a very serious issue with throwing anything away. I eat ALL of the leftovers in my house. My wife threatens to toss something as her way of cleaning the fridge.
Now lets say you are paying $5 a mouse and the snake refuses to switch for 5 months. You try every week by offering one mouse and throwing it away when it refuses. That's $100!
Also in my defense I never leave a mouse in over night. If he doesn't take it after five minutes I just feed it to the next guy and anything unbeaten gets refrozen.
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It helps if you do what I call "the nom nom dance" with the thawed prey, to entice her. It's to make it look alive. Here is a video of me doing it for my baby ball python so you get an idea of what it looks like:
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