live prey can scratch or bite your snake, leading to injury and infection. Live prey is more expensive as you will need to house and feed the rodents for when your snake becomes hungry. Other experts argue that snakes should be given live prey to give them a chance to...
Ball pythons, like other snakes, eat varying sizes of prey depending on how big they are. Smaller and younger snakes may eat large crickets, but should ideally be eating pinkies and fuzzies until they grow larger. Adult ball pythons will eat adult mice and rats when they get big enough. ...
Remember, the larger the feeder animal, the longer to go in between feeds. If your corn snake is particularly large and jumbo mice aren’t cutting it, try small rats. Rats offer more nutritional value. A rat also takeslonger for a snake to digest. Be sure to adjust the feeding schedule...
Many reptiles require a diet made up solely, or partially, of frozen-thawed food items, such as mice, rats, guinea pigs, chicks or quail. Deciding on the correct feeder option and size is of utmost importance for the health and wellbeing of your reptile. Feeding your snake or lizard thei...
As someone with a decent number of snakes, I’ve been alarmed over the last few years to find my feeding bill going up and up. All those frozen mice and rats, while not expensive on their own, start to add up when you’re buying and feeding in bulk. In light of this, I recently...
For the snakes in the ‘fasting’ group, we euthanized and collected blood and GIT tissue after 2 months of fasting. We followed previous studies that indicate that the use of anesthetic as euthanasia is not capable of modulate plasma CORT levels in male rats and toads (Fisher et al., ...
that affect only humans as final host resolve molecularly to around 2 mya. What the intermediate host may have been at that early time isn't known; a good bet would be burrowing and hiding riverine rats such cane rats or marsh rats. So...
Owls have a facial disc face which seems more like a parabolic dish. This dish allows the bird to amplify and focus sounds coming from different directions. Owls living in the Mediterranean region are known to consume mice and rats, while those in Cape Verde Islands feed often prey on geckos...
Advantages of egg-eating snakes as pets: They aren’tvenomous snakes They won’t bite you because they have no teeth You feed them eggs, not rodents (mice and rats) Stayrelatively smallat around 2-3 feet as adults They don’t require as much humidity or heat as other exotic snakes ...