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First Super STRIKE!!

Baller99k

Baller99k

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Today was the first time my corn did the strike where he does that tornado twist in the air as soon as he strikes the pinkie!!

It was so exciting. My corn is about 4 months old and 10g.

I heard that not all of them do that.

A couple questions...

1. Is it okay to gently tug the pinkie for a few seconds as soon as the corn strikes the pinkie?

2. Do your corns sometimes have trouble with the arms and legs sometimes...? How long on average does it take to fully get the pinkie down?

Sometimes I worry that something is wrong, but it is probably because I worry too much.
 
I think they ALL have trouble with legs and arms once in a while ...they just kinda stick out there ;)

As for the tugging ... I wouldn't ... I would worry my gentle was not gentle enough ... but I KNOW there are people here that can tell you much more about feeding than I can.

Congrats on the strike!
 
The legs and arms can be a pain sometimes but they get it eventually.

As for tugging...theres nothing wrong with it. it just mimics a prey squirming in the wild. Just don't yank.
 
Are you feeding the pinky to it head first? The snake can swallow easier if you feed the pinky head first. The first time I accidently gave it tail end first and it had some trouble with some arms.
 
Be careful when you tug. It DOES encourage them to constrict, it makes eating more exciting for them, but you also risk loosening their teeth periodicly, which can be very scary indeed. A good rule of thumb is never to tug hard enough to considerably MOVE your snake, just enough to give the prey a little liveliness!
 
Baller99k said:
Today was the first time my corn did the strike where he does that tornado twist in the air as soon as he strikes the pinkie!!

It was so exciting. My corn is about 4 months old and 10g.

I heard that not all of them do that.

A couple questions...

1. Is it okay to gently tug the pinkie for a few seconds as soon as the corn strikes the pinkie?

2. Do your corns sometimes have trouble with the arms and legs sometimes...? How long on average does it take to fully get the pinkie down?

Sometimes I worry that something is wrong, but it is probably because I worry too much.
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I wouldn't worry at all about tugging. It stimulates feeding, again by simulating live prey and "exercises" the snake, although briefly. You would probably have to jerk the thing out of it's mouth for it to lose teeth
 
my new baby had trouble with the first pinkie, striked it while I was still holding it, but grabbed it from the side. Took several minutes to get down. The second one he nailed right in the head and was gone in about 2 minutes.
 
Cyrus, I am afraid, is a lover not a striker....he slowly comes up on the pinkie and then rubs his nose on it for a second and then slowly wraps his mouth around it. If it were a live mouse that thing would be long gone before Cyrus decides he should eat it! LOL! It so cute to watch.....did I just say that?? I NEVER thought I would think it was cute to watch a snake eat a pinkie!!!
 
Liam likes me to drag his mouse around a bit so he can "chase" it before constricting it to death. My other yearling, Jared, on the other hand...

A couple meals ago, he reached the epitome of laziness. He nudged the mouse for a bit, pulled his head back and... slowly.... opened.... his .... mouth.... And then waited. And waited some more. Finally I gently put the hopper's head *in* his mouth and he slowly.... closed.... his.... mouth.

Definitely a no-go in the wild.
 
My corn finally did the super contriction on his pinkies, it lasted for three feedings, now he went back to normal....

I asked somebody why, and they asked me the size of the pinkies i was feeding him, and they said that they do the super constriction when they don't think they could eat it alive...

And thinking back on it, those times he did the super constriction, I was giving him almost fuzzies..

Does this sound like it could be true?
 
now that you mention it, mine did the same thing when I ended up with a peach fuzzy instead of a normal pinkie. he curled around it perfectly.
 
When my corn gets older, and I'm on hopper and mice, will he do it every time? Or do I have to feed him something thats about as big as he can handle for him to constrict fully?
 
My adults will constrict if I do a zombie dance with the mouse in the hemostats, almost every time. When I feed my yearlings I just toss in the appropriate number of fuzzies and shut the drawer. :D
 
I don't tug once she attacks. But once I put her in the tub I use for feeding, I take the mouse and start at the opposite side of the tub she is at and musically make the (dead) mouse nonsuspectingly hippity hop happily like it was alive, singing along and when it gets close to her CHOMP! Hee hee. But then again I am a DORK. :)
Jodi
 
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