how often should i feed my snakes?

[greene]

I feed my snake 2 -3 minnows every 2-3 days. Should I feed more often? Do you know where I can get worm during the winter?

[snake man]

How big are the snakes? I get my worms from wal-mart ear round.

[greene]

About 25 inches long. I never thought about looking at walmart

[snake man]

personally I do not feed fish because of parasites. Pinkies and worms are what I stick to. If you goto walmart and look around the fishing and hunting area the worms should be there.

[greene]

Ok. How big does a snake need to be to eat pinkies?

[Invisible Snake]

Ok. How big does a snake need to be to eat pinkies?

You can chop them up and scent them with live guppies

[greene]

How do you scent them?

[snake man]

Mine is less then 25 inches and can take a whole one so you should be ok.

[greene]

I might have to try those then.

[RedSidedSPR]

My 25ish inch snakes eat several pinkies in a sitting at times.

Don't feed minnows.

[Invisible Snake]

Missed the comment about your snake being about 25 inches.. He should be able to eat whole pinkies.

Scenting, you take a live guppy or canadian nightcrawler and rub it against the pinky

[Greg'sGarters]

What I do to scent is I chop up whatever I want to use to scent, put it in a sealed container with what I am trying to scent and vigorously shake it. Works every time.

[d_virginiana]

Also if the snake isn't used to pinkies, cutting them open so the insides smell more strongly seems to help a little. Or chopping something the snake is used to eating up with chopped pinky if just rubbing it on the pinky doesn't work. Usually mine have started taking unscented after one or two feedings.