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foxturtle
at Wed Dec 10 15:11:45 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by foxturtle ]
I'll explain myself a little better here:
I've been told several times that brumating baby snakes can produce a feeding response. I bought an eastern king as a "non-feeder" at the Breeders Expo in Daytona this year. I figured the snake would eat lizards or baby garter snakes, both of which I had readily available at the time. I figured wrong. After about 7 weeks of no feeding, I stuck a digital thermometer into the spare refrigerator. The temperature read at about 40 degrees, sometimes going up to 45, but never below 38. While the temperature was low enough to make me somewhat nervous, I figured that in the wild the snake probably experiences temps lower than that and should be fine. I put the snake in a large deli tray with aspen bedding as a substrate and a small water dish, and put that into the fridge. After cooling down, I checked on the snake every few days, even took him out a couple times. It was cool site to see his tongue flickering in slow-motion. I had planned to brumate for a month, but other people in the house needed the fridge, so out the snake went. I tried feeding her a day or 2 afterward with no luck. I got a new batch of pinkies a couple weeks later, after the snake had shed, and threw one in with her. I checked on her a couple hours later, and the pinkie had been eaten! I gave her another, and she took it immediately, and has been slamming pinkies every week ever since. A successful experiment, and I wouldn't hesitate to do so again if faced with the same problem.
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I did put the snake in a regular household fridge... - foxturtle, Wed Dec 10 15:11:45 2003