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| a2c7 |
Posted - 21/04/2012 : 16:38:59
Just fed Ara who is an unsexed 5 month old and I used some of the vetark vitamins (we wanted to try them out after watching snakebytes and seeing them).
Well Ara really didn't seem to like them! He's on two pinkies and he took the first and took a bit longer to eat it, then spent a while after just opening and closing his mouth, 'swallowing' as if he needed water.
He wasn't going to take the 2nd but I squeezed some goo out of the nose and he did, gently, take it from the tweezers but we had the same show afterwards, including rubbing his nose against the side of the rub we feed him in.
Question is : do you think he's ok? He's normally a very quick eater and has never done any of this 'show' before. (unlike Ginn the kingsnake who walks her 'prey' around the rub backwards a few times before getting on with eating) |
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| a2c7 |
Posted - 21/04/2012 : 19:48:46
Hey lotabob, thanks for the further information. He is still only ickle, so maybe I'll wait til he's grown on then. Glad it's normal after feeding behaviour, Ara just seemed a bit complacent today. |
| lotabob |
Posted - 21/04/2012 : 17:29:36
The opening and closing the mouth and rubbing the side sounds like normal after feeding behaviour to me. I'm sure the amount of supplement you put on the mouse would be absolutely tiny and although they will be aware something is on the mouse they shouldn't really care. I use Vetark Nutrobal once a month with my snakes and it doesn't ever slow them down but at a pinch per kilo of snake the amounts been used are tiny and really easily rubbed into the belly of the mouse's fur. I'm not sure about feeding such a small snake this stuff though, your snake must still be quite titchy if its on 2 pinkies, I waited until they were 500 grams plus before starting to prevent too high a dose. |
| a2c7 |
Posted - 21/04/2012 : 17:21:12
Yeah, after watching him feed this time I'm not sure I would bother for Ara in future - it looked a bit like he could taste them and thought it was gross! Ginn on the other hand was fine with them on her last feed...but I'm fairly sure you could make a piece of wood smell like a mouse and she'd chomp it down! |
| a33272 |
Posted - 21/04/2012 : 16:57:46
Personally I don't use any vitamins or supliments and not aware of any other forum users that do it regularly. Only one I've ever used was reptoboost an that was to perk up a fussy eater. |
