Snake Question

[thisgal]

Hmm...so are there little freezers hidden in tree trunks in the wild? Mother Nature doesn't pre-kill meals for anything, and in case you didn't notice, snakes are pretty good at surviving on their own in the wild.

 

[Mushroom Spore]

Hmm...so are there little freezers hidden in tree trunks in the wild? Mother Nature doesn't pre-kill meals for anything, and in case you didn't notice, snakes are pretty good at surviving on their own in the wild.

As a species, yes. Individuals die *all the time* and often well before their maximum lifespan, or get scarred up, permanently damaged, diseased or suffering from internal or external parasites...I should think we owe it to a captive animal to give it something better than that.

 

[Hedorah99]

Mina. In answer to your question, feeding in the same enclosure is a perfectly fine practice. If it does not stress the individual snake, so soes moving them. Snakes are like people and some are calmer than others. I have a few carpet pythons that are VERY cage aggressive. Every time the top opens, they expect food. Once they are out of the cage, they are very calm. WQhen I tried feeding them in a seperate container, it simply made them aggresive all the time.

This is a heated debate. The fact of the matter is that there is no one way to feed them. ball pythons are incredibly fussy. I have had friends who would only eat live prey. So what do you do. Allow the snake to starve on principal. No. I have had the same issue with horned frogs who would only eat live mice. He would only eat live and I was pretty much called a monster for doing that to the frog and the mouse.

Well Mina, hopefully i helped a little. enjoy the little one. Its a shame you asked a simple question and your thread became a warzone.