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Feeding in the cage
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by burly on September 22, 2002
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Does anyone feed outside the normal living cage for thier snakes ? Does it really matter were you feed them ?
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by biff on September 22, 2002
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I personally feed inside the cage, it would be a real pain to pull each snake out of it's cage and put it in a holding container to feed it...i have 20 plus snakes. If 2 or more snakes are together I will separate them (of course).
Some folks say this engenders a feeding response everytime the cage is opened, which may or may not be true (haven't noticed it personally)...but I am prepared each time I open a cage for the animal inside to come charging me!!
Steve
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by TomT on September 22, 2002
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There are probably as many ideas about feeding as there are snake keepers. I like to put food in enclosures so that when I return an animal to the cage, the food's in there.... this conditions a snake or lizard to look for food in the cage, when it is being returned to the cage after a cleaning.... it sort of sets up a routine for me and the snake/lizard, and I'm not dropping food into a hungry animal's cage. I take the snake out, put it in temporary housing, clean the cage and put the thawed meal in the enclosure and then return the snake to the cage. It works for me with all sorts of snakes from colubrids, boids and all manner of venomous.
In a shift cage, you can clean one side, leave food and then coax the resident into the freshly cleaned side to eat, while you clean the "B" side of the cage...
Tom
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by TAIPAN78 on September 25, 2002
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In my case, its a snake by snake desision. I feed all of my Aspidelaps outa the cage, aswell has my pituophis due to the fact that they are all on crushed walnut shells and I dont want them ingesting any if posible. I alos feed me my juvi Naja kaouthia out of her cage but this is for conditioning. Even at only 2 ft long she has already came chargeing outa her cage in anticipation for food, going right for my hand. This way she will not associate me opening her cage with din din time. So far the results have been good. Instead of attaking me she hoods up, strikes a few times and then trys to bolt.
Other problems can arsie, especialy if there are two snakes hpoused together. All it takes is for one to get a wiff of the other and then your down to only one really fat snake in the cage. I recently saw a picture of a Gopher snake neo, a renouned sp for preffering rodents usaly, who consumed one of yhis equal size cage mates right after being fed. If it can happen with Pituophis I would say its safe to say it can happen to any sp.
Welp, my 2 pennies.
All the best,
Jeremy
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by fizzbob7 on September 26, 2002
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i always feed in a different setup because i house like species together as long as i have room for them all and they wont eat each other....this way i know exactly what eats what and when....just in case the snake doesnt eat right away...if i had 50 snakes though and some were 8ft edb's then i would come up with a different plan..it takes 3 hours to feed them(10) sometimes....some eat right away and other wait...i've noticed pythons do better when fed in a different place...especially the retics i've had in the past...just whatever works
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