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29-Jan-04, 04:23 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gold Coast Age: 35 | | | Feeding Green Tree Snakes??
I was sold a Green Tree Snake that was supposedly eating pinky rats. I have had her for some time now and all I can get her to eat is frogs that I catch or Lizards such as garden skinks or water skinks from the creeks near home.I really want her to eat more readily available and healthier meals. I have tried goldfish in her water bowl to no avail I also tried force feeding goldfish once a fortnight but after 3 months of that the male up and died trying to regurge the fish so now I DON'T use goldfish. PLEASE HELP ME AND MY G.T.S !!!!!??????!!!!!
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29-Jan-04, 09:11 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | |
Have you tried scenting the pinkies with skinks/fish?
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29-Jan-04, 10:10 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Oct-03 Location: Sydney | | | |
This is the method I use and it works pretty well for me.
I place bowl in the cage and the gts is fed from this. The food item is always placed in the bowl. This to start with is usually a skink. I do this a few times then just use skink tails. The idea is that the snake associates the bowl with meal time and you will often find it sitting on a perch above the bowl. Then I introduce a defrosted pinky with a skink tailprtruding from its mouth. Do this a few times if necessary. Then its just plain pinkiesfrom then. Eventually you can lose the bowl.
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29-Jan-04, 07:16 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gold Coast Age: 35 | | |
Thanx adullthud I will give that a go , it sounds like the best option I have been given. 
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29-Jan-04, 08:47 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jan-04 Location: NSW Country | | | |
There is another option and that is to go your local pet shop and buy yourself a finch and put in with it. I had a brown tree snake and that is all it would eat. Skinks and frogs are ok but in some instances can carry mites or worms. Anyway good luck with her
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29-Jan-04, 09:52 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-03 Location: silverdale, nsw | | | |
a green tree snake is not goin to touch a finch. ther feeding habits are totally different to brown tree snakes.
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30-Jan-04, 08:12 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jan-04 Location: NSW Country | | | |
Really? Well I will have to let the breeder I got him off know that greens won't take finches, which means that all the ones he had been feeding his greens must have been eaten by something else. He kept a wide variety of herps including browns and greens. Even though greens prodominately and preferably eat frogs and lizards they are like a lot of reptiles in that they are opportunistic and will prey on animals outside their normal diets from time to time, and I think that for that cost of a finch it would be worth a go.
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30-Jan-04, 09:55 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Oct-03 Location: Sydney | | | |
Mine dont take birds or fish but I have never tried to wean them onto them. Their response to mice was the same when tried without attempting to changing their eating habits.
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30-Jan-04, 11:13 AM
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Adam i had a few troubles getting one of my snakes to eat pinkies too and wattso came up with the answer, i defrosted the pinkie in a bucket of water as usuall and then when it was thawed i pierced the back of the head with a pin so that a little blood and some brain came out... once it was in the cage it was gone within half an hour... may be worth a shot
good luck
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30-Jan-04, 12:22 PM
|  | biasedly unbiased Moderator | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Gender: | | | |
GTS are a bit different Stockeh.
The one I have will only eat goldfish, it just wont take mice.
Adam, try feeding her some neons, they are smaller and she might just take them.
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30-Jan-04, 12:43 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: NTH QLD | | |
Is it legal or illegal to take guppies or rainbows etc from a nearby creek to try feeding them to the gts  :
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30-Jan-04, 02:37 PM
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sorry greebo just thought it may be worth a shot thats all its good to have options
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30-Jan-04, 02:43 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Oct-03 Location: Sydney | | | |
I should point out that my method takes more than a few days.
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30-Jan-04, 03:59 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jan-04 Location: NSW Country | | | |
As far as I am aware it is ok to take guppies and things of the similar nature from creeks. I know of an Aquarium shop nearby that does it for feeders from time to time when they can't get other stock in. That's here in QLD
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30-Jan-04, 05:22 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: Brisbane | | |
be carful with food not bread in captivity they carry a variety of diseases and nasty unwanted criters !!!!
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