How to feed a Vietnamese blue beauty sanke? - Video

Hey :)

Here's a video that I've made of an average weekly feeding session with The Fury. It differs from the feeding technique I put in place when she was a little baby, as feeding her in a different enclosure has not proven to be the real deal over time.

           

As you can see, I am currently feeding Furia two small mediums per week. I have three more mice to go, and have decided to go up a size after that, as there is no visible bulge in her body after swallowing both preys... Depending on how big the mediums are, I will probably skip from a weekly to a 5 days regimen.

See in my area there's not many mice suppliers to choose and pick from, for snakes are not all that famous in Spain. My local supplier is a great guy though, I am not complaining, he's passionate about reptiles and loves to chit chat about them, but as far as mice sizes go... meh. Until now, I've been working with smalls that looked like big fuzzies, so I am not confident that mediums will honor their name. We'll see!

I hope you like the video, and if there's something in particular you'd like to see feel free to let me know.

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M.

Vietnamese blue beauty snake feeding - Video: 1 minute lunch!

Hey!

I figured you might be curious to see Furia in action, so here's a little video of her having a fast and easy lunch. I recommend you watch this in HD and full screen, though. 

Something tells me she's ready to go up a mice size...

Disclaimer: no mice were hurt during this film ;) she is always fed with frozen/thawed prey.

Also, as a side note, I am no longer feeding Furia in a separate RUB. I did for a while when she was just a hatchling, and it worked fine until it didn't anymore. I guess the stress of being moved from her terrarium to somewhere else put her off her food, so I decided to feed her in her terrarium and basta. She is doing fantastic lately, as you could see I barely ever have any trouble getting her to eat nowadays...

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M.

Snake Stats - March 2014

Hey!

Here are March stats:

	Length	Weigh
2 March 2014	79 cm	81 gr
29 March 2014	83 cm
1 April 2014		93 gr

At roughly 8 months old Furia is starting to develop a nice feeding response and becoming much less of a finicky eater. Except when due a shed, when she will ALWAYS become super secretive and will refuse any food item she's offered. I have tried, and there's no way to trick her into thinking she's not in blue...

Also her blues are starting to show more on her face and she's slowly quitting her former earth-toned olive green. 

Growth-wise, I feel like she's bulking up a bit. She'll probably stop growing at monster rates and progressively get a heavier body, which seems normal for a yearling to be.

She has become such a nice and tame girl that I may be forced to reconsider renaming her. I don't handle her as much as I did when I was carrying on the taming program, although I try to handle her at least 2 times a week. I have observed that if I don't she quickly gets jumpy and nervous during handling sessions. She barely ever rattles or hisses anymore, and when she does it's when she feels threatened by the mice I am offering her, which doesn't prevent her from eating it...

No wonder why she's grown so much! Judge for yourself:

When I first got her:

5 months later...

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M.