Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Welcome to kingsnake.com's message board system. Here you may share and discuss information with others about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements, permits and licenses, and more. Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the oldest and largest systems on the internet.

Click for 65% off Shipping with Reptiles 2 You
Click here to visit Classifieds

I have a couple of questions about my Amel

DVLnBLKvans Sep 21, 2003 01:08 AM

Alright, I know feeding questions are kind of a newbie thing, but if I don't ask I'm afraid my snake will die. I'm pretty sure it's an Amel, and the store I bought it from said they ate a couple days before I bought the snake. Well that was about 3 week ago and the snake still will not eat. We've tried everything but force feeding and putting an anole in the pink's mouth. Now my b/f thought he saw something in the forum about feeding them frogs, like the dwarf frogs. I'm wondering if that's true, and if it is true...is it nutritional like the mice are. I'm willing to try anything...
Also, if I do have to resort to force feeding, could someone tell me how I would go about doing that. They say just get it past the jaw and it will start to swallow, but i don't want to choke the snake by doing this... If anyone has any information on what other kinds of ways to feed, or other things to feed, or how to force feed it would be a lot of help. I couldn't handle if it died... I already lost a garter this week to a genetic disease.... (don't worry garter and corn were at different houses, 15 min apart.) Please help me... and my snake. Thank you

Jaime

Replies (2)

griffindor Sep 21, 2003 10:40 AM

If its a hatchling , take a f/t pinky and poke its brian with a needle expess a litle bit of brian matter.Lie it at the front of your snakes hide.leave it there for several hours while giving the snake privacy.

ninja_tortoise Sep 21, 2003 12:28 PM

seriously, buy a cheap anole. freeze it. then thaw and chop off tail. it will eat the tail. then cut off like, a foot or something and put it in a pinky's mouth. jam it in there good.
the snake should take it. mine went nuts when it smelled the lizard.

worked for me. try that.

Site Tools