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Posted by jfmoore on May 11, 2003 at 14:15:51:
In Reply to: P.S.- Murphy's law, the most expensive morphs are always th. posted by cf on May 08, 2003 at 13:57:37:
Hi Freight �
I hope you don�t mind me butting into your conversation. I�d meant to post this when you made your original post about intending to tube feed your sand boa, but didn�t want to sound too much like a broken record around here. But here goes again.
Unless I have specific reasons for wanting to use a tube to feed a snake (introducing medication, for instance), my first choice always is to try the assist-feed-with-body-part method. It seems to me that introducing the taste of your intended food as well as having the snake voluntarily swallow the food once you�ve put it in its mouth are two very good reasons for utilizing this method. If you suspected that your snakes were dehydrated, then that would be a good reason for tubing liquids or a food slurry. However, if they were severely dehydrated, you�d probably want to inject sterile fluids intracoelomically, anyway.
��.so I'm wondering how long it is safe to wait out a baby before I tube feed her?
With an animal as small as a neonate sand boa, it is extremely helpful to have (or have access to) a triple beam balance. If a recalcitrant baby is maintaining its weight, there is no real reason to intervene. But if it is losing weight, I�d try a mouse tail.
Good luck,
-Joan
:What method of force feeding are you using?
:Freight
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::Yup... looks like we're both in the same depressing boat. Right now I'm forcing a snow and a paradox snow. I had to do it a few times for my two paradox albinos but now they're doing good on their own.
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