Marnie's Snakes

[kueluck]

If they go into a feeding frenzy like that should you maybe feed more often with smaller portions?

[kibakiba]

Marnie... You have to stop sticking your fingers in their mouths! No wonder they think you're food! Geez.

[ProXimuS]

I wouldn't doubt that she can see you moving the other snakes around know she's about to get fed. I also wouldn't doubt she can at least get a little whiff of the food from the other guys food. Maybe a combination of the two? Sorry you got bit again! But glad it's not too bad. Next after a big bite with chewing, we're upgrading you to Cottonmouth bites(JK JK of course!)

[EasternGirl]

Well...it may be that I am not feeding her as often as she was used to with Steve and when she first got here...that may be part of it...and I know that many of you have several more snakes then I do so it may sound a bit whiny when I say that it is just getting hard with my busy schedule to feed 10 snakes...4 of them being babies that I hand feed and supervise every two days with my busy schedule...and the adults I have to move into feed tanks because I do not feed snakes together or near aspen. So I have been feeding every 6 days instead of every four...my adults that is. But I think it would be wise for me to stay on this schedule because once my nursing clinicals start...I will have to make weekends feed days and they will have to learn to go six days most of the time...which I don't think is too long for adults if I am feeding them enough and cutting it into digestible pieces...thoughts?

The other thing I noticed today is that Sadie is still a bit jumpy with me...and she doesn't seem to like my hands...the look of them or the smell or something. Once I get her out of her enclosure...when it is not feeding time...she calms down and lets me hold her...but she doesn't like my hands going near her...weird huh? Maybe she is just used to Steve's hands and it will take time. I did an experiment with her just now. I put a glove on one hand and not the other. She stayed wrapped around the hand with the glove on it and did not want my other hand near her. Thoughts? I wash my hands before holding her. The smell of me? The smell of the hand soap? The look of my hands? Who knows!

[mikem]

She's just not that into you

[EasternGirl]

Good one, Mike! Ha ha ha....

[mikem]

That's all I got. Don't have any advice for ya, except maybe keep doing what you're doing and she will learn that everything is going to be okay.

[EasternGirl]

So...I think I may be feeding the babies too much or too often now. They are starting to look like little sausages...lol. If they are three and a half months old now...and I am guessing that Bella is a little older...(I think little Joe is approximately the same age as my babies)...how often do you think I should feed them now? I have been doing every 2 days...sometimes 3 if I'm really busy. I usually feed one chopped up large nightcrawler per three babies. Suggestions?

[guidofatherof5]

A large night crawler per baby seem to be a little much. Maybe cut that in half.

[mikem]

I think she means the three babies share one nightcrawler.