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VoodooDragon
at Wed Jun 18 05:37:33 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by VoodooDragon ]
Well, it all goes by girth of the snake. When I got my first baby, he could take down "the smallest adult mouse you have, please." My newest female is a girthy little thing, so she'll probably be able to do the same.
I always try to play it safe when it comes to feeding/stress. For a week after I do anything potentially stressful - getting a new snake, moving one to a new cage, when I moved across town - I wait a week before handling or feeding. I figure, putting them in a feed box and trying to coerce them to eat could maybe add to stress, so why try? A week won't kill them. Now, if they appear stressed when I first get them (like my striped and big unknown), I actually waited two weeks before offering them, and never took them out or bothered them in any way. Now they eat yea verily.
But snake personalities and feeding histories (before you got them) vary so much, it's hard to make a strict rule on it. ----- -Irish
My Snakes
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