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Seejay

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Hey people. I did a thread here recently about my corn max being aggresive all the time and just not letting me handle him. Last night i remembered something someone told me that helps. my corns are in my shed and so not in my room so naturally my smell is foreign to him. So i left my t-shirt i'd been wearing that day in his viv and left him overnight. I just went in now to change his water and check for any buisiness.I expected him to have maybe pushed my shirt aside and to be sitting in one of his hides, and couldnt find him in either of his hides. worried, i picked up my shirt and then felt that it was heavy. opened it up and there he was curled up inside. and normally upon seeing me he'd rattle and hiss. But he sat there silent and then started crawling up my arm heh. I was saying "dude i cant hold you i only fed you yesterday" it was sweet and tempting to play but i knew it wasnt best so i guided him back into his viv where he quietly burrowed into the aspen heh.

>.< cant wait till i can handel him properly heh

ps. one question whilst i'm at it. Is it ok if he eats some small bits of aspen with his pinkie. sometimes when i give it to him he drops it into the substrate then eats it with some small bits sticking to it....is this ok? does he deal with it the same way he does bones and fur?

Seejay
 
Good luck with the handling!

In answer to your question, no, substrate swallowing isn't okay. One or two bits may not harm him but if it happens more often than not, the snake can become impacted and die. Snakes cannot digest wood shavings.

I would recommend you place your snake in a seperate, bare container to feed. NO substrate, not even paper towel. Just a bare box. Quite hard for him to ingest that. ;)
 
I ( and many others) totally agree with Plisken on this one. The snakes can not digest the substrate and small juveniles are especially prone to becoming impacted with the foreign substance in their intestines and will die. You should most definitely feed in a seperate container.

and Congrats on your snake liking you now! :)

best wishes
 
I will more than likely get flamed for this, but small bits of aspen will not hurt the snake. In large quantities it will cause impaction. What you are saying he put down I doubt will hurt him. make sure that he has plenty of water and watch for his next poo...

I would suggest that you no longer feed on aspen. Get a plastic container and feed on that. Don't use any kink of substrate in the feeding container.

Good luck.
 
nope no flaming for you here! :rolleyes: You are right that a few small peices of aspen will pass okay most likely.

But the point being tried to express was : that if your feeding on the substrate you cant really control if they ingest just a little or a mouth full quickly by accident. The advice was to be better safe than taking a risk.

But yes, the few little pieces ingested by accident should pass through.
 
Just a suggestion, switch him to newspaper or paper towel until he passes the aspen bits. This will make his poo much easier to find, and you will know when he has passed the aspen.
 
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