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New Eating behavior...?

Baller99k

Baller99k

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Zoey has just moved on to double pinks (so u know her size)

Her last two feedings, on the first pinkie, she has done a fulllll wrap, head to tail.

But after she has it in a ball for a while, she releases, and takes her time to find a place to bite.

She never used to do this. and actually, today even after the intitial wrap, the pinkie just laid there, and seemed to come back to life when it got bit again..
 
Completely normal for them to do that. She may have stunned it and thought it was dead.

One question though, have you ever thought of switching to frozen thawed? I am not gonna lamb baste you, but I had to ask. It's just that it is safer for the snake!

Good Luck,

Wayne
 
I have a # of corns in my collection and all eat f/t. But I do have 1 that eats live. She eats 4 live pinks every week. And she doesn't even constrict them anymore. Just holds them till they stop struggling then takes them down. This is the point where I have to leave her alone. Hoping by the time she is ready for hoppers it will be fresh kill or f/t.
 
Completely normal even if he was on f/t. My 08 caramel boy was just upped to fuzzies a couple of weeks ago. He never constricted with his pinkies but, boy does he constrict the heck out of those fuzzies! Coils for dear life and takes him a while to decide they are "dead".
 
i have 3 corn snakes...all but one only eat live no matter what i do and the middle size one just switched on to a small adult mouse and he constricts them so hard the eyes pop out...intense to watch and he is uber strong....but a great pet..he is just suuuuure about the kill before.....same behavior with yours too....when the mouse is dead sometimes he will totally uncoil and bite it a couple of times then let go then rub his chin on it to see which direction the hair grows then move more twoards the mouth of the mouse. Once he gets to the mouth its all she wrote and the mouse starts its stomach nap head first on the way down.
 
i thaw out my mice in hot water and have found that if i dry them off before feeding i ussually get a bigger reaction from my snakes than if i feed them still wet
not always though
 
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