Re: Feeding russian ratsnakes

Posted by Dean on August 09, 2001 at 14:51:04:

In Reply to: Feeding russian ratsnakes posted by Mark on August 06, 2001 at 21:01:10:

Hey Mark;

Glad to see you got a Russian afterwards ;-) Sounds like your doing fine with the feeding, like Steve said as long as she's not regurgitating or anything weird, they WILL from time to time go off their food, I tend to cool them down for about a month & then you can heat them back up & they will eat again, this is with babies I do this. Sort of a 'mini hibernation' then once they hit 2 they get chilled down for 2 to 3 months in the winter then my breeders will go down for about 4 & 1/2 to 5 months.

Steve's also right in that they don't like overly big prey, my 5 & 1/2 male got a junvenille rats the other day & it took him an hour to down it. So I'll keep him on the large adult mice.

Enjoy your new snake; hey where did you get it???

bye for now

Dean

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: Hey Mark; : Glad to see you got a Russian afterwards ;-) Sounds like your doing fine with the feeding, like Steve said as long as she's not regurgitating or anything weird, they WILL from time to time go off their food, I tend to cool them down for about a month & then you can heat them back up & they will eat again, this is with babies I do this. Sort of a 'mini hibernation' then once they hit 2 they get chilled down for 2 to 3 months in the winter then my breeders will go down for about 4 & 1/2 to 5 months. : Steve's also right in that they don't like overly big prey, my 5 & 1/2 male got a junvenille rats the other day & it took him an hour to down it. So I'll keep him on the large adult mice. : Enjoy your new snake; hey where did you get it??? : bye for now : Dean

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