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DMong
at Sun Oct 7 23:20:45 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Not messy at ALL.......it takes two seconds and it often works like instant MAGIC on many reluctant to feed youngsters. The fresh tissue scent often initiates an instant feeding response just like hitting a light switch...............
In the snake hobby, you have to do what actually works, not what might seem "gross" to the general public..
I tear the snout completely off many F/T all the time with the tongs then put it in front of the reluctant hatchlings, and BAM!!
A LOOONG time ago I experimented with their reaction to this. I would put a regular F/T in front of a reluctant hatchling with a long set of tongs. Snake looks at it and stays there flicking it's tongue, but just doesn't do anything with it, even after a minute or two. Take back SAME F/T pink, rip off face....reintroduce,and.....BAM!
Even an $800 Honduran in 1996 wouldn't eat for almost two months....sliced skull of F/T pink, gently squeezed it to press some brain material out and smear it all over the head of pink,.reintroduce.........the SPLIT-SECOND the hatchling flicked it's tongue out ONE TIME.........BAM!! he ate it like it was the last rodent on earth, and from that day forward he was a pig!. I could actually see the excitement the snake had in a about 1/100th of a second when I put it in front of the non-feeder.
I do this all the time with stuff that doesn't show much interest in the normal bagged up frozen rodents. The fresh tissue scent that comes out of it is absolutely irresistable to many reluctant snakes....simple as that.
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 
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RE: baby cali king not eating - DMong, Sun Oct 7 23:20:45 2012