I have a 6 month old corn snake that used to have a feeding problem. I had her as a non feeder (I already had one snake and know how to make difficult feeders eat) and over the last month she has been taking one large pinkie wiggled in front of her every week. She now strikes and constricts her food. I last fed her 4 days ago.
She is usualy very placid but when she came out earlier she put her nose against my finger and opened her mouth wide, and bit me, then she did the same thing on her own body, and actualy bit herself. She then tried to bite me a couple of times (i'm talking slowly opening her mouth and putting teeth on skin, then biting, there is no striking going on here, i'm stopping her as soon as she has opened her mouth wide) and also tried to bite herself. After a short while I put her back in her Vivarium, but i'm a little worried she will bite herself again.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
2007-09-22 23:18:48 · 3 answers · asked by Vicky D 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
That's a feeding response rather then fear or aggression. Sounds like you have a hungry little snake. I would move her up in prey size to a fuzzy if she can take that, at 6 months she should be able to. The prey can be just a bit bigger around then her body. Otherwise you might shorten the interval between feedings to 5 days.
2007-09-23 01:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by Thea 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When you’re wiggling the pinkie I guess your wiggling it in your fingers. This can cause the snake to start sensing you sent (smell on your hand) as food. When you feed your snake just put the food in the enclosure and leave the snake alone too find it and eat it for it’s self. Also you can feed the snake more or more often.
Do this and keep handling it and it will be back to its old self in no time.
2007-09-23 03:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by Chrisssss 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thea is right, it is a feeding response. Snakes sometimes get so excited, they will bite anything, hoping it's food.
Feed it more.
2007-09-23 03:04:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋