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26-Apr-08, 04:56 PM
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I have just got the most beautiful pair of hypo bredlis for my collection. Im curious to know if you can over feed them. Since they have been home(only a week) they have eaten every 3 days. These babies were hatched in feb so are still very young. So far they have consumned 2 pinkie rats three fuzzy mice and a mid size mouse each. My temps are 32 to 26 degrees. Im just concerned that this may be excessive. Im feeding them when they look like they are hunting. They are attacking their food with gusto, and devouring it quite quickly. Do i keep feeding them what they will take or do i back them off. |
26-Apr-08, 05:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Perth Age/Gender: 22  | | | | just keep it to one decent sized meal every 7 days...... snakes that are grown much to fast tend to live shorter lives and get problems later in life like egg binding |
26-Apr-08, 05:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | id say feeding it 3 times a week is too much.. once every five days til its around 60cm then once a week is fine. Snakes dont eat that much (unlike human beings) and they dont digest food as fast as us so they dont eat much at all..
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26-Apr-08, 05:05 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: shoalhaven Age/Gender: 38 | | | | Its great that they are feeding so well for you. In my opinion, i think you should let them digest their food and poop it out and maybe leave them for a day or two before you feed them again. |
26-Apr-08, 05:09 PM
|  | Impatient Snake Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | Scout - One feed capable of a leaving a noticable lump every seven days is a standard feeding regime for juvenile snakes...as adults one feed every ten days works well...
One feed every five days is certainly a good schedule for hatchlings and is great for giving them a head start with their growth...
Three feeds per week is definately excessive - of note though, even despite all the talk of overfed snakes i think it is far more common to see underfed animals than overfed...
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26-Apr-08, 05:09 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | If that's what the breeder you got it off was doing, then do it. Just make sure they have crapped before you feed them. Also Kenshin, where did you get that information from? |
26-Apr-08, 05:09 PM
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Kenshinjust keep it to one decent sized meal every 7 days......
| Yes one feed every 7 days is all they need.
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26-Apr-08, 05:11 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Gender: | | | | I have only fed them after "pooping" that was the only reason that I did try feeding them |
26-Apr-08, 05:12 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | Also Aslan and Armand, he states that they have been fed every 3 days. |
26-Apr-08, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan19  Also Aslan and Armand, he states that they have been fed every 3 days. | ...I read that, what is your point?
Mine is that that is excessive...
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26-Apr-08, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan19 Also Aslan and Armand, he states that they have been fed every 3 days. | ??.. Its good that it is feeding so well but it can be very bad in the the long run if the snake is eating too much from day 1.. its better off to feed it once every 5 days as a hatch and once a weeks as a juv and once evry 10 days or 2 weeks when an adult (1.5m+).. i feed all my snakes every 2 weeks now and they still grow fast..
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26-Apr-08, 05:20 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | Yes, i agree with you. I did not want you to take it as an attack. I feed mine every 7 days, but if the breeder was feeding it after it pooed, then do that. Slow it down as they get older though. |
26-Apr-08, 05:28 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | yes make sure that you feed it after a poo. it is bad for the snake to eat accessively withought aving a crap.. could end up with some problems too... sorry Dan i dont get what you meant by the feeding 3 days..
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26-Apr-08, 05:30 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-03 Location: here | | | | What is it with the notion that feeding a snake before it defacates is a bad thing? Provide some reference for it,if not stop handing out advice without the necessary first hand knowledge. |
26-Apr-08, 05:33 PM
| | Impatient Snake Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | Rams - I am also sceptical of this advice...I feed my snakes on a semi-regular schedule that suits me - I pay no attention whatsoever to whether they have crapped beforehand or not...
It seems strange and I have never seen or read anything to suggest this is important...
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