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I like to keep my snakes on a consistent feeding schedule: every Thursday.
Well this week I'm feeding a day early because I won't be able to do it tomorrow.
It looks like I need to step up Bella's (my BCI) rat size. She struck at the glass today when she saw the rat coming... she never does that. And for the past two weeks she's been getting unusually active at night starting about 4 days after her feeding. She usually will come out of her hide, crawl around a bit and then perch on her vines and bask under the red/nocturnal bulb. But for the past two weeks (starting about 4 days after a feeding) she'll come out but she won't perch... she'll be all over the cage. Rooting, climbing, burrowing, crawling... this morning I came in and she had pushed her hide about 2 inches, two of her shedding rocks were pushed around, and her water bowl was moved from the middle of her cage to the far side of the warm side! She had completely redecorated, and there were obvious tracks in the bark where she'd been rooting and burrowing. It suddenly occurred to me when I saw this that her late night activity may be a result of her being hungry. ...Looks like her rat fuzzies aren't tiding her over like they used to.
...And last week I even noticed there was barely a bulge at all after she ate.
Question: I was tempted to give her a mouse hopper as well since her rat fuzzies aren't doing it for her like they used to, but opted not to since I don't like to feed more than one prey item per feeding. However, in this case do you think I could have gotten away with it?
Well this week I'm feeding a day early because I won't be able to do it tomorrow.
It looks like I need to step up Bella's (my BCI) rat size. She struck at the glass today when she saw the rat coming... she never does that. And for the past two weeks she's been getting unusually active at night starting about 4 days after her feeding. She usually will come out of her hide, crawl around a bit and then perch on her vines and bask under the red/nocturnal bulb. But for the past two weeks (starting about 4 days after a feeding) she'll come out but she won't perch... she'll be all over the cage. Rooting, climbing, burrowing, crawling... this morning I came in and she had pushed her hide about 2 inches, two of her shedding rocks were pushed around, and her water bowl was moved from the middle of her cage to the far side of the warm side! She had completely redecorated, and there were obvious tracks in the bark where she'd been rooting and burrowing. It suddenly occurred to me when I saw this that her late night activity may be a result of her being hungry. ...Looks like her rat fuzzies aren't tiding her over like they used to.
...And last week I even noticed there was barely a bulge at all after she ate.
Question: I was tempted to give her a mouse hopper as well since her rat fuzzies aren't doing it for her like they used to, but opted not to since I don't like to feed more than one prey item per feeding. However, in this case do you think I could have gotten away with it?
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