While we're on the subject -- something I just noticed. If you swing the food item like a pendulum across from right to left in front of the snakes face, you'll get a better feeding response than otherwise. You know, move it like the hypnotist that says - "you're getting sleepy".
It was an epiphany, a moment of clarity when I correlated that to something else my snakes do.
They let me know when they're hungry -- How you ask? When I pass by their cages they'll oftentimes strike at my silhouette as I go by. They're in opaque tubs. Can't really see me, just a shadowy silhouette to them. Why are they doing that? Why? Because that's what they do when they're hungry in the wild. They're ambush preditors. They find a scent on a rodent trail, sit in wait and ambush the next critter that comes along. Prey items traveling across their field of view from side to side initiate a strike/feeding response.
Of course, this point is mute with good feeding snakes.
Just my opinion, really.
jsc

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• aquired red tail boa - dwendler4, Tue Nov 13 02:03:13 2007
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