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| scorpyshake |
Posted - 13/09/2012 : 12:19:27
Just a newbie question off me :) With all these hatchlings that are none feeders, and there seems to be a few about, poor little things :( people try this and that often without success, but why doesn't anyone try what they could be getting from the wild naturally ? for instance crickets and small bugs ? It's just a thought and has puzzled me why no-one has mentioned them, not to my knowledge anyway :)
I'm just really curious  |
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| Dancross0 |
Posted - 13/09/2012 : 16:17:01
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Originally posted by serena_08
I've read they eat a type of small lizard as their first meal(s), though not sure how true this could be?!
It's more of a Florida thing. Miami and Keys corns would have a lot of anolis lizards about to start feeding on. I'm not sure about the more northern corns.
I'm sure that crickets wouldn't be any good for them; not enough calcium. There are all sorts of things to try to get them feeding. Warmed, brained, tuna/salmon dipped pinkies, chick thighs, mouse tails, etc. At a push, maybe frogs?
Most of the time, it's just finding what works with each individual snake, and going from there. |
| Razee |
Posted - 13/09/2012 : 15:20:17
Edit: Her faun, she's a girl ( I'll never get used to it! )
Would like to know if anyone has tried crickets, I remember reading something like that somewhere - someone's hatchling wouldn't eat, but then a cricket got into its tank, it went for it and started eating afterwards... probably not the best diet, but if it worked? |
| Razee |
Posted - 13/09/2012 : 15:15:19
I wonder whether they do eat insect as well, I'd imagine they'd go for anything they can get. Bazil once tried very hard to hunt a small spider that was crawling just on the outside of his faun, and I think that, given the chance, she would have eaten it, too. She was only a tiny hatchie, then. |
| serena_08 |
Posted - 13/09/2012 : 13:21:33
I've read they eat a type of small lizard as their first meal(s), though not sure how true this could be?! |
| scorpyshake |
Posted - 13/09/2012 : 12:38:36
I did wonder, as I've read a few pages where people think that they do ? who knows hey ? lol |
| Simmy_82 |
Posted - 13/09/2012 : 12:35:25
I dont think they go for those types of prey in the wild to be honest. |
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