Anery Radix Update

[guidofatherof5]

Feeding nips are normal. Are you using hemostats?

[Martinz21]

Not right now I have them though I am doing it all by hand currently

[guidofatherof5]

The nips will normal stop when using hemostats unless they over-shoot the target. I have young aggressive feeders that know the food comes from the end of the hemostats so they leave my hand alone.

[jwolfe152]

i have been using the hemostats for feeding and Ekoh is getting used to them and bites much closer to the end of them now, he will still take stuff from my fingers but not open handed. when feeding him worm i use 3 fingers to hold it and he has not bit once yet(knock on wood)

[Martinz21]

What is a good age/size to start feeding full pinkies? I am currently feeding him thirds but he downs them pretty easy

[guidofatherof5]

I've heard that you shouldn't feed anything wider then 1.5 the head width.
I like my snakes to have a comfortable swallowing meal.

[Martinz21]

Ok thank you

[chris-uk]

What is a good age/size to start feeding full pinkies? I am currently feeding him thirds but he downs them pretty easy

I'd rather feed more pieces of food that are swallowed quickly and easily, than a single item that they take longer to swallow.
My reasoning is that I feed most of mine in their vivs (I take out my slow feeding cyrtopsis because the checkereds she lives with would take any food before she realised it was there, and I feed my infernalis individually because if I don't they will eat each other) so two things influence the size of the food pieces I feed - I don't want them dragging food off around the viv where it can pick up substrate or get dropped if it's too big to swallow, and I want them to swallow quickly so that there is less chance of a vivmate trying to steal the food from another's mouth.

[jwolfe152]

see i have been feeding pieces of cut up worm to Ekoh because it seems like you say a hell of a lot less likely to pick up the substrate(i use reptibark) in the first week i tried laying down paper towels but he just backed off of them and ended up with small pieces of the bark on the worm. if you have ever tried to clean a worm that is half swallowed by a WC you know its not easy to get the bark off without them running from you and picking up more. i cant feed him in a separate tank either he gets stressed and runs around until i put him back and then he readily takes his food. after the first time he swallowed substrate its easier, safer, less stress on Ekoh and me(worrying)

[Martinz21]

Last really simple question. How long does a typical opaque stage last? He has shed for me once before but when I was on vacation for a week and I just noticed today that he has gone opaque.