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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 19/08/2011 : 18:00:25
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Hiya,Just thought of another queation.
Are feeding tweezers/ forceps essential??
Pros and Cons anyone??
Scaly x |
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eeji
The Morph Master
United Kingdom
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Spreebok
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1135 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 18:13:57
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| I use tongs, as all mine have very strong feeding responses, but not a lot can be said for their accuracy! :P |
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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5292 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 18:15:29
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| Ok, ta guys, Just redoing all my sums!! x |
1.0.0 Butter motley corn (Sheldon)
0.1.0 Caramel Corn (Maggie)
0.1.0 Caramel motley corn (Echo)
1.0.0 Cat (Angus)
1 mealworm colony
RIP Skye x
Sleep well Sonny, Mummy loves you xx
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kdlang
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3556 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 18:39:24
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| I do use tongs for some of my snakes. Mainly the 2 with a very strong feeding response and when I am putting the mice in the hoggies fauns. I have been tagged before by one of the corns when she missed the mouse and I really don't want to be bitten by one of the hoggies during a feeding response. |
4.1.0 corns - Izzy (Carolina) Alice (Amel) Peanut (Butter Motley) Swayze (Ghost) Carmellia (Butter Motley)
0.1.0 cat - Kizzy
1.0.0 Dog - Dobbie
Location - Chesterfield, Derbyshire
www.support-dogs.org.uk |
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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5292 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 18:40:36
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| HMMM decisions decisions, do i? don't i? |
1.0.0 Butter motley corn (Sheldon)
0.1.0 Caramel Corn (Maggie)
0.1.0 Caramel motley corn (Echo)
1.0.0 Cat (Angus)
1 mealworm colony
RIP Skye x
Sleep well Sonny, Mummy loves you xx
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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5292 Posts |
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garrie
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1148 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 18:47:51
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| You can pick up tongs for around a £5er from Amazon and other online retailers - the reason I have read for using them is that a corn can learn to associate the Tongs with food/feeding...the other side is that they "could" associate your hand with feeding. There are comments on here from people who have never been tagged by their snake and have never used tongs. Do bare in mind however that if you are picking up the mice with your hands, then your hands smell like dinner |
^click for more pics^
Garrie - Halesworth, Suffolk. 1.0 AURYN (fire morph corn) 0.1 Puzzle (Cat) |
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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5292 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 18:50:04
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| kk :) |
1.0.0 Butter motley corn (Sheldon)
0.1.0 Caramel Corn (Maggie)
0.1.0 Caramel motley corn (Echo)
1.0.0 Cat (Angus)
1 mealworm colony
RIP Skye x
Sleep well Sonny, Mummy loves you xx
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Sta~ple
qeeun speler
United Kingdom
6129 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 22:03:42
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| I use stainless steel forceps either fishing or medical ones I got from ebay as I don't like to touch the food and the only times I have ever been bitten was when I was carrying their food on cardboard, so I like to be a bit further away form the food! Plus with the king going or anything when he knows its din din time... I did have some plastic ones, but they broke! |
   
A very special super, duper thanks for K :3 |
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herriotfan
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5853 Posts |
Posted - 19/08/2011 : 23:27:04
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| Some of mine have such an amazing S&C I wouldn't dream of not using tongs! Look on ebay....cheap and you can sterilize them. |
Husband....Very Understanding!!! (Phil)
Son & Daughter (Kevin & Carol)
Granddaughter (Eva)
3.4.0 Cornsnakes Amel (Sidney) Caramel Stripe (Sultan) Amber (Cleo) Carolina (Phoebe) Anery Motley Stripe (Penny) Snow (Lily) Caramel (Holmes)
1.2.0 Royal Pythons(Peeps, Pandora & Pepsi)
1.0.0 Hognose (Hudson)
2.1.0 Dogs (Dillon, Alfie, Ellie)
0.1.0 Senegal Parrot (Peanut)
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons (Bonnie & Clyde)
1.0.0 Crested Geckos (Echo)
0.2.1 Hermanns Tortoises (Ebbie, Rosie & Twiglet)
0.1.0 Guinea Pig (Dolly-Pipsqueak)
0.1.9 Tarantulas (Poppy, Gypsy, Bumble, Insey Winsey, Sonic, Cookie, Raven, Fudge, Titch & Sox)
??? Foster animals
Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
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Auld Baldy
Ikea's Pimp
United Kingdom
1619 Posts |
Posted - 20/08/2011 : 03:37:42
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Hand feeder. I don't want to take the risk of the snake stabbing an eye or worse during a strike.
Check the movie in the post I made here. (Control+click on the icon & select View)
http://www.thecornsnake.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18779 |
1.0.0: Miami Normal: Taggart
0.0.1: Carolina Normal: Wee Woody
0.0.1: Grey Rat Snake: Mirkey
0.0.1: Amel Corn: Blaze
1.0.0: Carpet Python: Vambo
0.0.1: MBK: Fester
0.0.1: Florida King Snake : Rattler (Rattle & Hum)
0.0.1. California King Snake: El Diablo Diego
0.2.0 Tarantulas : Ermintrude & Euphemia. |
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