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Post by lozzer on Mar 20, 2005 16:11:30 GMT
How often and how long can you handle royals?
And how?
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Post by John Pilling on Mar 20, 2005 20:50:40 GMT
Same as corns for how, and for ages as they tend to coil around you wrist and stay their for ages (hour's somethimes), same with a lot of boa's.
Some people say dailly, some say a couple of times a week, but it depends on 2 things in my mind.
1) the snake and if it want's to come out.
2) the person who is handleing it, if your confident then watching shreak 2 or the matrix whilst handleing most pythons and boa's is easy enough as they "sit" still.
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Post by Dave on Mar 20, 2005 21:00:47 GMT
hmmm.. sometimes handeling royals too much can put them off there food, once every two days is great but as for the time periods that you hold them, any time is great!
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Post by John Pilling on Mar 20, 2005 21:36:45 GMT
Thanks Dave, i wasn't sure, and with you having 1 you ought to know ;D.
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Post by lozzer on Mar 20, 2005 22:13:16 GMT
So when i get mine should i wait a couple of weeks for it to settle down and get used to its surroundings then handle it for 10-15 mins every couple of days or hold it twice a day for 5 mins?
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Post by John Pilling on Mar 20, 2005 23:11:41 GMT
I'd give it a week or to settle, then just handle once a day for 10-15 mins to start and slowley increace to about 30 or so mins like you did with the corns.
That sound's right to me anyway. Dave a comfomation?
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2005 10:32:12 GMT
yeah, just make sure it doesnt start to change in its eating otherwise change holding to every 2 days, i do think i worry to much about her but then it also takes only small things to stop them eating  |
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Post by John Pilling on Mar 21, 2005 13:28:00 GMT
You have every right to worry, i do about mine (i'll pine for them when i'm at the show), but that just goes to show a good owner inho.
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2005 19:29:09 GMT
im usually allright when i go away cos i know they are safe but it panics me more that i might be doing something wrong!
but there all still alive! thats always a good sighn lol!
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Post by John Pilling on Mar 21, 2005 23:06:25 GMT
Hopefully (looking through past records) that chocky and blizzard will be blue, and Venus is fine about waiting a day or 2 for her meal anyway. Hopefully she'll be alternating a mouse and a chick so i'll fed her a chick the week before (mouse then wat 7 days and feed a chick, then wait 10 days to feed a mouse again, because chicks are bigger then large mice). God i'll miss em though  |
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