Getting a snake in house conditions, each its owner has to remember very important information. Representatives of the wild nature and pets who are on sale in shops are different types of snakes. If you caught an exotic being and placed it in a terrarium, then it will be almost impossible to provide the native habitat for it. Snakes which sell in specialized shops are initially adapted to live in house conditions.
Food allowance of domestic snakes
Keeping of domestic snakes brings the minimum quantity of efforts. These reptiles are among the most unpretentious exotic pets. Buying a snake in shop, it is necessary to consult the specialist in an occasion of a diet of her feeding at once. Some types of snakes have the food preferences.
Exceptional cases when domestic snakes refused food during the whole year are known.
The main thing that each owner of a domestic snake has to understand – these representatives of reptiles are predators. It is necessary to feed them generally with a forage of animal origin. Rats, frogs, mice, fish – food, habitual for a snake, which is necessary for it for normal development. The forage size, for example, of a mouse, it is necessary to select according to the sizes of the head of a snake. You should not feed a domestic snake with live rodents. The fact is that during ingestion the mouse can bite a reptile. If in time not to notice a serious wound, then such irresponsibility from the owner can cost to the pet life. In case the owner of a reptile after all wants to treat a snake with live production, then the rodent should be prepared for feeding. To an animal cut the biggest teeth and block a backbone sharp breakthrough for a tail. The domestic snake needs constant moistening. Experts recommend to spray a body of a reptile with water of room temperature several times a day. Liquid has to be present at a terrarium constantly, it is necessary to change a drinking bowl daily.
Mode of feeding of a domestic snakeThe domestic snake is recommended to be fed once a week. Young individuals differ in the increased appetite, and adult snakes can refuse food even several months in a row. For example, in the period of a molt the reptile does not show interest in the offered treats at all.
It is noticed that during the changing of the owner or resettlement in a new terrarium, snakes can arrange long starvations.
It is remarkable that the domestic snake can give a signal to the owner if gets hungry. The pet begins to make the clicking sounds and to move uneasily across the territory of a terrarium. It is necessary to feed snakes separately. Otherwise reptiles can fight with each other even because of an identical forage. Besides, snakes are capable to show aggression even at the slightest movements of hands of the owner if decide that they try to take away production from them. It is better to get a forage for a domestic snake in shop. If to catch a wild mouse and to feed her to the pet, then the probability of infection of a reptile with a serious infection is very high. You can not define, for example, the poisoned rodent. The snake after such treat can die.