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25-Oct-06, 01:37 PM
|  | Cartel Reps Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Old Sydney Town Gender:  | | |  Feeding during shed??
I'm curious, how many of your pythons will take a meal while shedding? I've heard a few people say that Bredli are the only morelia that will take a prey item while in shed, but neither of mine will. The only one that does is my sub adult male Jungle?? |
25-Oct-06, 01:41 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: sydney | | | | if they take it or not it is not a good idea to offer as it will make the shedding process more uncomfortable, which will increase the stress on your snake |
25-Oct-06, 01:44 PM
| | Cartel Reps Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Old Sydney Town Gender: | | | | well you learn something new everyday!! |
25-Oct-06, 01:46 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: sydney | | | | ye you do, not feeding the snake for 3 weeks will not harm it in any way, just make sure you feed her as soon as she finishes as she will be very hungry |
25-Oct-06, 02:01 PM
| | Alpha Male Subscriber | Join Date: May-06 Location: Sydney Age: 22 | | | | none of mine eat before or during a slough but usually eat as soon as they have.. |
25-Oct-06, 02:07 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | | | Around 3/4 of mine will feed at any stage of the shedding process, often when their eyes are milky. It doesn't affect them one way or the other and certainly doesn't stress them out, if it did then they wouldn't eat. Don't give them a big meal as it will just make it harder to get the old skin past the lump. If they are due for a feed then feed them, if they refuse it doesn't matter.
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25-Oct-06, 02:09 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: The Well Of Souls (Victoria) Age/Gender: 35 | | | Our Diamond has decided lately not to touch food before and during a shed. Lucky his eyes are the first thing to go so we aren't wasting rats And he's pretty darn hungry after a shed as we found out with yesterdays little enclosure escape. 
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25-Oct-06, 02:11 PM
|  | Yes, that Hix Moderator | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Sydney | | | My female Water had a rat on Sunday and shed last night. Not the first time she's done it either. 
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25-Oct-06, 02:21 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: May-05 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | Mine Stimsons will eat during a shed cycle, but my Coastals are not interested even a few days before their eyes go cloudy. As a rule I will not feed if I know they are coming up to a shed. An extra week or so without food is not going to do any harm.
I have also noticed that if feed straight after a shed, their feeding response is not good, although they will still eat. It appears that they need a day or so to recover from the exertion and possibly the stress of sheding. If I give them another day then they give a good feeding response. |
25-Oct-06, 03:35 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Sydney Age: 25 | | | | My juvie coastal takes food when she is due for a shed (after the milky stage but before the slough). I haven't tried when her eyes are milky, she'd probly take it but i never get to see her during this stage as she spends very little time out of her hide and i don't want to waste her rats. |
25-Oct-06, 03:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | My juvenile Maculosa fed through the shedding phase. I didn't notice that its eye was milky. I offered it a fuzzy which it accepted before shedding four days later. |
25-Oct-06, 04:08 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: Melbourne | | | | My diamond took a feed while in the middle of a shed..ie the skin had already passed over the head and the peeled head shed was sitting behind at the base of his neck. Before I get flamed, I'd already thawed the rat before checking on my python and it was my first time he shed (2nd feed). I was a newbie basically.
Don't think mine would have any issues eating at any stage of the shedding process, but I dont do this. Best to leave them alone. |
25-Oct-06, 04:22 PM
| | Alpha Male Subscriber | Join Date: May-06 Location: Sydney Age: 22 | | | | yeah, one of my big diamonds eye's go milky then clear up within a day but doesn't start to shed for 2-3 days after that | |
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