I have a Cal King and she is about 1 1/2 years old about 30 inches long. I have fed her F/T since the day I got her. She has never wraped around her prey. Is this normal when feeding F/T? Do they just do that when using live prey? Just a question. Other than that she is fine and extremely easy to care for. Thanks
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Cal king feeding question
rickc
Mar 19, 2007 01:22 PM
Replies (4)
kingsnaken
Mar 19, 2007 01:43 PM
I have several snakes, and some of them still constrict f/t and some don't. Derek
derekdehaas
Mar 19, 2007 02:09 PM
same here. some of mine do this and some other just don't.
Orocosos
Mar 19, 2007 06:09 PM
I have a five year old cal king who does the same thing. I've never fed him anything else other than F/T.
FunkyRes
Mar 21, 2007 03:32 AM
My lavender was raised on F/T - which is usually what I feed her.
First time I offered her live - she looked surprised that it moved - and did a very clumsy constriction. Second time I fed her live - she had the constriction thing all figured out.
She only constricts live prey though - unless I trick her by dangling f/t in front of her (which I do when someone wants to see a snake constrict)
My suriname boa was raised on live (before I took him in) and refused f/t if I didn't dangle it in front of him. Two or three times of that - and he took 'em w/o enticement, no constriction.
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