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Ailurus
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| Quote: | 1.) do you feed them in a different enclosure? if not, how do you feed them? do you use some kind of plate to avoid the snake's eating of the substrate?
2.) what substrate do you use?
3.) do you hold every snake regularly? how long and how often?
4.) are all your snakes tame?
5.) if the snake is not tame, do you try to tame it? or just use a snake hook in moving them?
6.) if the snake is very hard to tame, do you try and try or you just give up because taming isn't really a necessity in snake keeping? |
1) I remove my adult snakes from thier vivs and feed in RUB's. Hatchlings in tubs are just fed in the tub, except my youngest corn who i also remove, so that he gets into the habit before i put him in a viv.
2) Hatchlings live on aspen. Adult corns live on a 3:4 ratio of Orchid bark mixed with aspen. Adult Milk snake lives on a 1:2 mixture of orchid bark and aspen.
3) Corns yes about 4 times a week. Milk snake no only once because he is fast scatty, he is taming down though. Trinkets only get picked up when being cleaned out, because they are not very good feeders, and i find this helps.
4) yes
5) n/a
6) dunno
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krakilin
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| may i ask what are RUB's? |
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Ailurus
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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of course you can ask lol
RUBs are Really Useful Boxes. they are storage boxes that are very similar to conticos (which are the mkore common reptile boxes). RUBs can be purchased from staples, argos and WH Smiths, they come in an awful lot of sizes. I just drilled a few holes in the them, sanded down the hole to make it smooth,and now i use them for feeding snakes in.
you can use them for other things to, thats why they are really useful 
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jimmy.on
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Joined: 12 May 2008
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Location: Glenmavis, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Lynne wrote: | but i discovered he loves rubber and will happily climb on your hand if you are wearing one, 
he always has a flick with his tongue to see if i have the glove on, and if i dont he slithers off into his hide. |
you didn't' tell me you had a kinky snake Lynne ha ha
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krakilin
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | you didn't' tell me you had a kinky snake Lynne ha ha |
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Lynne
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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you should see the look i get just before he disappears into his hide if i dont have it on. i can take it off immediately i get him out and its fine. he definately likes rubber.
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krakilin
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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were you wearing the gloves while trying to remove the kitchen roll?
how's he doing? |
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Lynne
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| krakilin wrote: | were you wearing the gloves while trying to remove the kitchen roll?
how's he doing? |
now i think of it, no i wasnt lol. he is fine now, he has had a poo and back to his normal self. i put his mouse in an old cricket tub now, i dont think there is much chance of him getting that in his gob. well......i hope not!!!
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Jack
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Location: west lothian scotland
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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i have just got a wee peice of slate in my holgys tub and he eats off that
the rest are on news paper so i could feed them in viv
i only feed royal in his tub but with th boa and rat snake i feed out of the viv just so they dont think that when i go in its dinner time and i dont fancy gettin bitten
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