Finicky Ball Pythons- Strategies For Effective Feeding

Finicky Ball Pythons- Strategies For Effective Feeding

Ever wonder how people score their finicky Ball Pythons to eat frozen feeders (frozen mice/rats)? Well glimpse no further! At the destroy of this article you will have the strategies and techniques to gain a Ball Python eating regularly without resorting to force feeding. Let me say that I occupy force feeding a finicky Ball Python is unneeded and can cause titanic injure to your snake if you do it incorrectly. I would recommend that you consume your Ball Python from an experienced, reputable breeder who typically will have the Python eating pre-killed food before they sell it.

One of the most basic problems may be that your snake does not eye the feeder as food. Ball Pythons have heat pits, which allow them to sense even the smallest changes in temperature. So the first strategy is not only the least stressful but one of the easiest. You must heat the now thawed feeder (I have found that putting it into a plastic and setting the bag in a bowl of hot water works wonderfully.) If this procedure by itself doesn't work, there is a technique to exhaust in conjunction with it. In the wild, Ball Pythons will usually feast on gerbil, so its scent is a welcome addition! Go to your local little animal pet store and ask for gerbil or hamster shavings from the cage to scent the feeder. location the feeder into a plastic bag along with some of the shavings. Let the feeder...marinate in the scent for a dinky while, spend the warm water heating device and then offer it to your snake.

The third strategy is to consume a pillowcase for feedings. Ball pythons can feel shy when fed in a clear-sided cage. You can change this by lowering the snake into the pillowcase, placing the feeder in with your snake and putting the pillowcase aid into your snake's cage. (Lightly fold over the raze so that your snake can mild derive out once it eats the feeder.) Ball Pythons are nocturnal. An additional technique is to give your Ball Python a kindly hiding plot inside its feeding container and feed at night. These techniques, either combined or alone, will work. One last recommendation, Cage aggression (a snake striking at anything that comes into its habitat) can be favorite in snakes fed inside their enclosure. I recommend that you feed any snake outside of its enclosure to lessen the chance of this occurring. Bon appétit!