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Hi everyone,
Last week when I was feeding my snakes I noticed that my BRB was going into a shed, so I didn't try to feed her. She shed monday night sometime, so I fed her yesterday. I gave her a small mouse (It had actual hair, not peach fuzz--Hopper?). It made a lump in her body, but not much larger than the largest part of her body.

Today I had taken her out of her cage to do some cleaning in it. When I put her back in, I put her on one side then I was smoothing down some substrate on the other side of the tank (20gal long). She caught my movement and started towards me. A short time later I moved my hand fairly close to her for some reason and her head moved really quickly, following my hand.

I take this as a sign that she's hungry. I have been feeding about every 5 to 7 days. It has been about 10 days between the feeding on monday and the one before.If she is showing signs that she is hungry, should she be fed again? I'm thinking she should be fed. Should I give her another hopper say tonight or tomorrow morning then go back to reg shedule for feeding? Or should I maybe wait one more day, then feed her?

Thanks for your help
Rob
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn
0.1 Creamscicle corn
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine
1.1 Bearded Dragon

Hey Rob,

If it were me I'd wait. I usually err on the side of more time between feedings rather than less time. Even though your snake is hungry, it is probably still digesting it's last meal. Feeding it again will put even more food in there. If you do this, you'll have to be careful about handling the animal between now and Saturday so the animal doesn't regurgitate. These aniamals are opportunistic predators and they can go a long time without eating if necessary. Waiting will not hurt. Let your snake prowl around and search a bit. That's what snakes do.

By the way. "aren't tracer rounds illegal"? - Jaime Hyneman (sp???)
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

>>By the way. "aren't tracer rounds illegal"? - Jaime Hyneman

Yeah, I think they are.......but use them anyway
Rob
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn
0.1 Creamscicle corn
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine
1.1 Bearded Dragon

BRB's will eat a lot, and often if you let them. I was feeding mine once every 4 days for a few weeks! Now i have her eating once every 7 days.

Goodluck
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Russ
1 Brazillian Rainbow Boa (< 1 year old)
1 Rosy Boa (G/F's Snake)

Somehow i have to feed both?!
Melbourne, Fl

I have to admit, I don't even know what a tracer round is but I do love that show. I live in the SF Bay area where they film and I haven't run into either of them yet but it's nea to see all of the familiar places that they go to (East Bay Vivarium, Port of Oakland, various freeways etc...)

I tried exploding a 2-liter bottle with the dry ice that came in with my last shipment of frozen rats. It was so cool that I tried it a second time. Seconds after the second went off I had three cops at my door. That thing was LOUD!
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

My female BRB will eat anything and everything offered her. In the nearly three years I have owned her i can only think of maybe 2 or three times she refused food. IN all times I believe she was in the blue stage of shed, though at other times she ate at that stage anyway.

She will eat my hand if I am not carefully when opening her cage after taking it down from the shelf. (going to have to put her on a lower shelf soon, she's getting heavy to lift from the top shelf...4 pounds last time I weighed...course that makes me sound like a wimp...but a three foot cage with a 4 pounds snake at one end, almost always the furthest end that I am at, isn't as easy as it could be. It doesn't help that i can't get right in front of the shelf..too many cages on the floor in front of the shelf LOL....but that will change when I get the rack built).

For a baby once a week is fine or once every 10 days.

A tracer round, the way I understand it, is basically a phosphorus or some sort of similar chemical, round that lights up when fired, makes it easier to follow the path you are shooting at night. Machine guns typically have one tracer round ever 3-5 shots, hence when you watch war movies of night fights you see those glowing lights in a straight line, pretty evenly spaced.
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PHLdyPayne

LdyPayne,
...You are right about tracers. Those lights going up into the air in those videos of the attacks on Baghdad at night during Desert Storm are tracers. Anti-aircraft tracers coming at you at night look like giant flaming basketballs.
...Tracer rounds are illegal in many places because they will start fires. The people who make the action movies show tracer rounds blowing up gas tanks but oftentimes they will go through a fuel tank without igniting it. When the grass or brush was very dry on military firing ranges we had to fire without tracers.
Jeff

>>My female BRB will eat anything and everything offered her. In the nearly three years I have owned her i can only think of maybe 2 or three times she refused food. IN all times I believe she was in the blue stage of shed, though at other times she ate at that stage anyway.
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>>She will eat my hand if I am not carefully when opening her cage after taking it down from the shelf. (going to have to put her on a lower shelf soon, she's getting heavy to lift from the top shelf...4 pounds last time I weighed...course that makes me sound like a wimp...but a three foot cage with a 4 pounds snake at one end, almost always the furthest end that I am at, isn't as easy as it could be. It doesn't help that i can't get right in front of the shelf..too many cages on the floor in front of the shelf LOL....but that will change when I get the rack built).
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>>For a baby once a week is fine or once every 10 days.
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>>A tracer round, the way I understand it, is basically a phosphorus or some sort of similar chemical, round that lights up when fired, makes it easier to follow the path you are shooting at night. Machine guns typically have one tracer round ever 3-5 shots, hence when you watch war movies of night fights you see those glowing lights in a straight line, pretty evenly spaced.
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>>PHLdyPayne

It definitely makes sense tracer rounds can cause fires. If they are phosphorous or something similar. Hot rounds could cause fires if the conditions are right. Movies showing gas tanks etc exploding I don't think are very accurate as more often than not, a lit flame hitting a liquid fuel, is put out, as though you dropped a match in water. Sparks caused by bullets may light gas etc...But then again I could be wrong..not like I plan to experiment LOL. I just know every time I drop a match, 9 times out of ten it goes out long before it hits the floor anyway.
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PHLdyPayne

Only 3 cops? lol. Yeah, it's neat to see the things they do. I'd find their building and go down there one day. I'd love to do stuff like that. Heck, I think I'd do it for free just to have fun.
Rob
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn
0.1 Creamscicle corn
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine
1.1 Bearded Dragon