Eating Styles

[RedSidedSPR]

My snake (self caught 3 years old red sided) is extremely stealthy. He goes to the water bowl a different way EVERY time, stays low, slow, and slowly goes up to the fish. Then grabs, and if it's big runs away (sometimes straight up the glass), and if it's small, just guzzles it down in seconds, and moves on to the next. It's really fun to watch.

[kibakiba]

Squirt hides in a hole in the bedding when she knows it's feeding time, pops her head out and when I give her the food, she pops out really fast and drags it quickly into the hole. It's a hilarious sight. I wish I could get it on camera, but it always comes up too dark to see her.

[RdubSnider]

That's entertaining. I've got a male checkered that goes continues in a circle around his cage while he's eating and normally doesn't stop till the mouse is all the way down.

[d_virginiana]

Houdini likes to beg for food. When he has nothing in his bowl and he sees one of the humans come into the room, he will get up and drape himself over the bowl and watch us. Then when he finally gets his food, he just gulps it down without ever really leaving the one spot.

[guidofatherof5]

Houdini likes to beg for food. When he has nothing in his bowl and he sees one of the humans come into the room, he will get up and drape himself over the bowl and watch us. Then when he finally gets his food, he just gulps it down without ever really leaving the one spot.

Sounds like Houdini has a system.

[Venti]

Today while feeding my hatchlings in my "Nursery" I found out a possible new eating style, similar to dunking cookies in milk. Some of the babies started grabbing nightcrawler pieces and dunking them in their water bowl. This behavior was first seen in the wild caught eastern hatchling, then in one of the CB red-sided garter snake hatchlings. I just found this interesting and worth noting.

[guidofatherof5]

Never heard of or seen anything like that.
Thanks for sharing.

[Venti]

I just thought of why they might be doing that, are they washing the dirt off the worms? Usually I rinse off the worm pieces in cool water, but this time I forgot too.

[guidofatherof5]

I doubt it's that, the garbage guts

[Venti]

They like the guts and all that, I just think they don't like the worm dirt.
Garter snakes are very amusing to watch eat, I had to break up a few games of tug-a-war last time before someone got bit.