Q? How do you know who is eating???

[Loren]

Best way is to separate them, but you could also use an accurate gram scale, weigh them once a week after they have pooped the last meals out and see who is growing and who isnt. You could weigh them after eating, but they might regurge from the handling.

[reptile3]

Best way is to separate them, but you could also use an accurate gram scale, weigh them once a week after they have pooped the last meals out and see who is growing and who isnt. You could weigh them after eating, but they might regurge from the handling.

I just weighed all 3 of them 2 days ago. Will wait a week & do it again! thanks

[infernalis]

I feed mine separately (OK I cheat, my adult DK's eat perched in my hand)

We have a dozen "feeding boxes" and place the snakes in them one at a time with food.

That way I know who eats, and what...

[GartersRock]

I feed mine separately (OK I cheat, my adult DK's eat perched in my hand)

We have a dozen "feeding boxes" and place the snakes in them one at a time with food.

That way I know who eats, and what...

Same here! Deli cups and feeding boxes so I can be sure they all eat. My litter of 29. I have to do it that way or some little ones might not get to eat.
But yeah. All my snakes get fed separately.

[reptile3]

Same here! Deli cups and feeding boxes so I can be sure they all eat. My litter of 29. I have to do it that way or some little ones might not get to eat.
But yeah. All my snakes get fed separately.

Maybe I should try that too!!! Thanks

[infernalis]

Maybe I should try that too!!! Thanks

One thing that I have found that applies with all my snake species..

I have a few "fussy eaters" so I lock them in the feeding box with food.

Example, I have a couple "nervous" adult male garters, I place 2 pinks, 1 cut night crawler (thirds) and a couple flopping live minnows in a tote, and lock the snake in there, make a few posts on here, then go check on them. The food is usually gone after 15-20 minutes.

The little milk babies, I lock them into a deli cup with a thawed pinky overnight. Next morning the pinks are almost always gone.

Fussy DK snakes, lock them in a small box or deli cup with some worms or slugs and some yanked up grass, and leave it overnight.

My bigger Colubrids, I have a very large flat rock in each cage, I just place 2-3 F/T mice on the rock and go to bed, gone by morning.

The Royal Python I have to "tease feed" warmed up food items dangled from tongs.

We had too many incidents whenever communal feeding was tried, so I gave it up completely.