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thunderpaws
at Mon May 18 10:06:03 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by thunderpaws ]
Hey,
First of all isn't Pitoon awesome. Dude I love your posts. I just wanted to add one small thing on the feeding issue. I use to have 4 balls at one time and one of them never ate. When I fed I fed all four at the same time. When the one problem child would not feed it was so frustrating. I would have to refreeze the mouse and after the second time I would have to waste the mouse. I wanted to pull out my hair. Now I have 15 balls and when she does not eat someone else gets a bonus meal. It makes it so much easier now. I am not saying to buy more snakes but it wouldn't hurt (LOL). Once you have more snakes the ones that do not feed regularly kind of take a different roll in your husbandry issues. And you realize it is not you. Out of the 15 snakes I have 3 that are picky eaters. That is not bad at all. Probably a better ratio then most breeders out there have. Just like Pitoon said, and it is so true. The snake will eat when it is ready. Just keep offering the same time you feed your other snake. And do not try feeding it 6 times a day daily that does not work either. Believe me we have all tried. Less is more when working with a finicky eater. Just offer the same time and eventually you will be surprised. Hey I am on a roll...And here is the big key that everyone screws up. I have a small theory that we kind of create these monsters. Here is what happens. We have a snake that does not eat for months. It finally feeds, YEAH, and guess what the novice owner does. They feed it more lets give it another and another and another and another...well you get the point. You feed it so much that it wont eat for a year again. When you finally get it to eat just feed it a good small meal each week. Do not overfeed or you are going to be right back in the same situation again and again and again.
Regards,
Bill
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RE: Heating, feeding,breeding Qs(Desperate)! - thunderpaws, Mon May 18 10:06:03 2009