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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 21/04/2012 : 01:23:23
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| When the term 'handling' is used it is meaning to have them out for a while for armchair walkies. No handling doesn't mean you can't pick them up at all when required, sometimes its just necessary, as long as you dont fuss them or squeeze the mouse bump it will be absolutely fine. its the one time I pick them up more towards the tail than the norm of the middle and as soon as you raise their body up enough to slide a hand underneath then just lift them up. Just watch out for the feeding mode though, once they are in feeding mode you might be the next course, well an attempt at it anyway though it unlikely unless its my daft boa that will try eat you just after eating. |
Anery Corn snake SPOT. Royal Python, DUKE. Hogg Island Boa, SANKE. Albino House Snake, HAL.
Harlequin Crested Gecko HARLEY
Albino Horned Frog WAKA
Chilean Rose Tarantula TRIXIE. Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula SAM. Orange Baboon Tarantula BORIS.
Giant Asian Forest Scorpion, SALLY.
Giant African Land Snails, SHELDON & MICHELLE.
Budwing Mantis, MAIA
Dubia Roach Colony. Silkworm Colony. Mealworm Colony. Waxworm Colony. Fruit Beetle Colony.
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Moriarty
Egg
United Kingdom
60 Posts |
Posted - 21/04/2012 : 13:18:50
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Originally posted by adamczuk
I've got a question, if feeding your snake outside its vivarium (in a seperate box) and you're not supposed to handle it after its eaten for a while, how do you transfer it back into its vivarium safely?
I feed out of the viv in a little tub with kitchen roll down, and once he's eaten I leave it a while until he starts to slither around the tub a little, and when his tongue starts to flick again, then I gently lift up the sides of the kitchen roll (hence also lifting the snake), then I put that in the viv and let him slither off whenever he's ready! |
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ashby_steve
Hatchling
United Kingdom
258 Posts |
Posted - 22/04/2012 : 09:47:19
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i prefer feeding mine out of the viv
when i used to feed my male inside his viv he was expecting food whenever i opened the glass doors
so not to confuse between handling and meal times its better that way
(plus the guarantee that no substrate will stick to the mouse and get swallowed) |
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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5292 Posts |
Posted - 22/04/2012 : 09:52:29
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| i feed sonny outside the faun, but if he's taking a while i sometimes put him back in the faun with the food on newspaper so i can leave him alone in the warm for a little while, nearly always does the trick :) |
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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advice for first time snake keepers
