Feeding Baby Snakes their First Meals!
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2023
- We always show baby snakes hatching from their eggs, but we've never showed you what goes on after that exciting day. Getting baby snakes to start eating can take lots of patience, and sometimes some creativity. Enjoy watching us troubleshoot to get baby snakes to eat!
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The frog scenting thing killed me. All I can imagine now is me sitting in my computer chair, minding my own business, and then somebody bursts into my apartment to wipe a whole chicken across my face: "It's human scented now" 💀😂
Good thing frogs are just chill and don't care! 🤣
PFFF!
I’d be more concerned as to what exactly would need their chicken to be human scented…
That is a hilarious comparison. 😂 Thank you
What’s also funny is that the frogs were called South American Bird Poop Frogs. Whoever named them did the frogs dirty 😂
I am proud to say that the "dirty pastel" from the hatching video, who was also labeled as "sassy" on her card, eats whenever food is offered, and while she'll give a bit of a hiss when she first sees the lid open, she's very easy to handle, and is a bit of a cuddle bug! She's enriched my life, and has so much personality. I appreciate how hard y'all work to make sure that the snakes not only go to good homes, but that the snakes are READY to go to new homes.
Nice! My normal eats every single time and is super docile I love her! I don’t know the exact gender. Pet smart does not know. I hope my parents will let me buy another that’s a bit more pretty, like a pastel! Or banana which Is my favorite! However that would cost me a lot
@@ashleykauffman3712have you tried the tail trick that Ed and Emily use in sexing their snakes? If not I would maybe go see a vet and see if they can
@@ashleykauffman3712aww! That’s awesome. Definitely try doing the tail to find out the gender. I got my baby banana female about 2 months ago, she was listed as male but I did it myself and saw no hemipenes. About a week later, I got an adult male pastel Yellowbelly! I’ll be happy to breed them together (hopefully) when she’s big enough.
It's wonderful to hear from someone who has one of their babies, and how much you love her. I'm so glad that she's made your life better - that's so important.
I found this trick to make ball pythons eat: Place a frozen roden in a plastic food container and close the lid so the scent can't escape. Wait till it's unfreezed, then put the container in hot water to make the roden warm enough for pythons. It keeps the food dry (a lot of ball pythons don't like wet food) and preserves as much scent as possible (some snakes wouldn't take food as it doesn't smell strong enough). Saved me a lot of time, upvote for Emily to see
Those poor frogs 😂 they're like "the alien overlords come asgin! Quick, flatten onto the leaf, they won't see us!"
imagine chilling with the homies and a god comes in to rub a steak on you and leave
I enjoy seeing the difficult side of raising the babies. Not all rainbows and sunshine. It makes me appreciate the work that goes into breeding and raising the littles.
I loved this style of video. I think it's really nice to have a baby-recap at the end of the year.
i love your setenses
Great idea, the only thing I have extremely difficulties with is watching them eat while animals, had to close my eyes couple of times.
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I loved that little baby's very ferocious hiss, what an adorable little angry shoelace!
Also, baby balls absolutely do prefer a certain temperature in their f/t meals or will ignore them entirely. A lot of mine really like their food nice and warm and if it's any colder than that, they refuse. Another trick for stubborn eaters is to feed a smaller size meal and more often, working them up to the correct size meal for their size and age.
One of my balls refuses to take wet food, so I have to double-bag it while thawing it. It's so annoying, but considering that it took me a while to figure it out, I'm just glad she's eating.
@@squeakybgamingmine does the same! It took me months to figure it out and his last one the bags leaked so I need to try again today
@@mistyk.2152 Pro tip from a guy with a beep that prefers dry food, blasting it with a hairdryer to get it dry again tends to work! It's kind of a hassle, but it heats up the rodent, gets the scent into the room and dries it all in one, so if my girl is being fussy about her food that usually fixes it
99-101 by infrared thermometer is what my ball demands lol
I like seeing the personality through eating. My hognose always did well frozen thaw, but also is just a super ravenous guy. So younger if you drop fed (which he preferred) and he wiggled over it before finding it, he would smell himself and try to eat that... cause he thought he was the mouse, so he didn't get to drop feed for awhile due to the lack of brain cells
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BABY SNAKES!!! They make me so happy!
Yeah! Baby snakes are so cute! 🐍❤ 🐊 also merry Christmas!🎄 (its almost Christmas in Michigan)
They make me so happy to.
Those frogs were just like "why the frog is this lady rubbing a mouse on us??" I was crying from laughing so hard at how they looked. Lol.
Baby snakes, a lot like a toddler who has learned the word no and it's lunchtime . Lol
Emily don't worry if the babies won't eat for the camera, that doesn't make the video not exciting! We're excited for baby videos even if it's all drop feeds ♥
I luckily converted my adult ball python to frozen thawed on the first try. I was told by a friend of mine to scent the frozen thawed rat with ASF or gerbil bedding. I do not have access to ASFs but my mom owned a local pet store at the time so I did have access to gerbil bidding and it got him to eat almost immediately
ASF is African Soft Fur rats right? Or something like that, iirc from their rodent breeding video
@@jvseventeen ASF is African Soft Fur. Though it's not technically classified as a rat
Reptilinks sells ASF juice for scenting if you ever need it again. I use it and refreeze it. It has gotten my ball out of an eating strike twice. I love it!
The false water cobra baby smelling the mouse: "Don't know what that is. It's weird, scary, and gross."
The false water cobra baby after smelling the bird poop frog mouse: "Now THAT smells like food!"
Lol
Cheerful Emily with a bowl full of dead mice is classic snake discovery
I was laughing so hard when you were rubbing the mouse on the frogs and the frogs couldn’t care less
Hey Emily, I'm only about half way through this video and wanted you to know that whilst it would've been great for more of the snakes to eat on camera in the first half of the video, you and your husband more than carried it in terms of humour and just doing what you generally do.
I love the way you treat the defensive behaviour of the "spicy" snakes as cute and almost "patronize" them when they get hissy and strike. It is nice to watch something informative as well as amusing and entertaining, so well done to the two of you.
My Argentine Boa from you is doing awesome. It's such an amazing snake.
That upset baby is actually the first time ive seen a snake on the channel that i was like naw im good not booping that snoot rn
Babies are always welcome in any context lol
Also, I just wanted to thank you guys. It's because of this channel that I just got my very first snake! He's a baby saffron motley morph corn snake named Tobi and I love him to death
Just a thought in case it works for someone else who can’t think what else to try ❤ some of my more picky eating baby snakes don’t like the water defrosting method, I think because the water washes off some of the scent, so for those, I defrost the rodent in sealed empty tupperwear (no water) in the fridge for a few hours instead - this reduces how much scent is lost and gets them eating! (I then switch to water defrosting later on) - I guess it makes sense but it took me a while to find this out with help from some other very kind keepers lol so worth a try if it helps anyone else with some frustratingly picky eaters like mine lol 😅
I thaw mine by putting it inside a sealed sandwich or snack bag and then using water. I prefer not to defrost without water, and the bag keeps the mouse dry.
Angy babies are hysterical, I love them.
Just a hint for BP’s…I use a hair dryer to dry them & while blowing on them I direct the scented air into their enclosure. My BP’s don’t like wet rats. Lol
Ah! A scent is actually very smart, gives the sense of a trail and perhaps the mouse is innocently walking by,then they can go OM NOM NOM
That is what I do too!! My ball Python is going through a hunger strike, lol! 😅
@@karenrosenberger1321 Ugh! Isn’t that so much “fun”? Lol My male started a 6 month hunger strike last year on 12/15. I’m wondering if he’ll do it again this year. I hope not!!
@@loriw2661 I would say it's very possible with it being winter and everything. I'm sure when he gets hungry enough, he'll eat. I wouldn't worry about it.
@@karenrosenberger1321 Exactly. I learned last year that he’ll eventually decide to eat. But it was my first time having that happen. I only have 3 BP’s and he was my first one. My two females eat fine. One, even when she’s in blue. Lol
Years later, and I can finally again reference the Lives of Scenting Amphibeans comment. "They sometimes rub dead rodents on me, but otherwise 5 stars."
Oh my gosh, my niece is OBSESSED with the banana pastel baby ball. She has asked me no less than 30 times in the last 5 minutes if she can have it. I shouldn’t have told her that we could start looking for the right one, and just gotten her one, lol. 😂 these babies are so beautiful. Job well done, Emily & Ed!!❤
So cute!! But…maybe make her research how to take care of one first?
omg so cute
@@MysteryTako - what on Earth makes you think I would tell her we could start looking for the right one if I didn’t believe she was prepared to care for it? She spent 2 years learning before I agreed to it, even though I owned snakes until I started college & med school. I bought her a baby banana pastel last month and she loves him to pieces. We are currently tearing down an old gun display case that SHE located on OfferUP to create a massive enclosure & she has drawn out all of the detail designs, down to the double waterfall feeding 2 pools. We hike in the desert every weekend looking for the right pieces of sun bleached wood & saguaro skeletons, and she knows exactly how to treat them in order to protect Monty from hitchhiking parasites, or any other concerns. She keeps track of his feeding schedule, she cleans his current enclosure, she stays on top of his health by periodically checking his gums & critically assessing his scales, she cleans & treats his water & is hyper vigilant about his lighting & under enclosure heating elements. She even learned all about the genetic combinations involved in creating his morph, just so she would know where he came from….but that probably has to do with her mother & I being doctors. I would never just buy an animal for anyone who wasn’t prepared in every way to protect & maintain its every need. I didn’t even get my own bees until I’d researched them for nearly 3 years & cared for wild bees for 2 of those years.
She doesn’t live with me, so I got her parents permission first…even though he lives at my house. But, I bought the house next door to my sister’s & my niece’s fingerprint is programmed into the deadbolt lock…she comes & goes as she pleases & has her own bedroom if she wants to stay over. I assure you, despite this being a group endeavor (her mom had snakes when we were growing up, too…she’s my little sister, so reptile fever took her over in a nearly identical manner) she was beyond ready before she ever even held a snake. And she’s incredible with him.
@@laurenmccormick1910 - Thank you!! I surprised her with a baby banana pastel last month & she loves him so much! She named him Monty Python…..which is how I know her parents are raising her right! 😆
Wow, that must be incredibly stressful trying to get babies to eat!
My albino Nelson's Milk was eating well when I got him, and he just inhales his food now; has never refused a meal in a few years. As a result, he's doubled his length to over 4ft long! He seems to shed at least once a month so he's still growing well. Still a total sweetheart and has never bitten anything not a rodent. I love my noodle guy! Wish you could meet him!
Love this More baby snake update videos please, Ive always wanted to see hownthey grow more, maybe you packing some up for their forever homes when older
Yes! That'd be awesome
It'd be really cool to do a little "follow a baby snake through the process of being adopted out" and pick an individual to record clips of. Being put in its baby bin, first meal, prep for ship.
As for what snake: maybe one that's really unique, the prettiest one of a given/special clutch, maybe patreon could get to choose a baby from a given clutch.. or they could record all the babies from one of the small clutters, where it's only 2-3 babies.
Some of the footage they would already have, and the other clips could probably be outsourced to staff as they could be done on a cell phone.
Those boa babies are GORGEOUS!
Omg seeing my Banana Ball as a baby was so adorable. He has already grown so much and is working to be an ambassador animal (still refusing f/t as a stinker)
This was a great video! I would love if this became more regular content on your channel. Behind the scenes stuff like cleaning enclosures, and feeding/raising babies is not only interesting to watch, but it helps people that might be thinking about getting one of these exotic pets really understand just how much time and effort goes into taking care of them.
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Those were some spicy Argentine boas! 😂
I love seeing the different personalities of snakes. Generally snakes of the same species will have a similar personality, but every individual snake is unique.❤
I remember watching you in your kitchen scenting mouse parts with frog for the baby hognoses. That was a lifetime ago, before COVID. Glad to see you showing that part of breeding again !😊
I'd like to see more on the struggle to get baby snakes to eat and how you progress.
More videos like this need to be shown so people can research and know exactly what they are getting into !!! ❤️
I tried starting my baby balls on frozen thawed, but they can be such picky eaters that I figured out it was more important that they actually take their first couple meals because it isn't difficult (generally) to switch them later. So all of mine start out with live mouse hoppers, and after they've taken 3-4 of those, I can normally switch them to f/t within just a couple more feedings using fresh mouse bedding and making sure they're hot.
The false water cobras are so gorgeous !! I forgot how stunning their rusty orange coloration is
Emily just sticking tongs in a bucket of frozen thawed mice is unnervingly iconic.
I loved this long first feed video ❤ I loved the little faulcy that took the mouse and the banana ball. The pastel was pretty too.
Babies! So cute! Glad most ended up eating!
I recently had to put my cat down and you have really helped me because you make me happy and joyful. I hope you see this you are really helping a lot
A feeding video where like 2 animals eat on camera is really funny lol
These Argentine Boa's are so angry at everything. Even their own caves!
Omg BABYS I’ve been waiting for this video!! I love you and Ed’s channel so much! You guys made me LOVE reptiles so much and actually encouraged me get get a snake of my own. You also made my reptile scared mother to actually kind of like them! Lol😂 Thank you so much for what your doing! ❤
Would love to see more videos like this with baby snake husbandry! Would also love a zoo feeding day and husbandry for the zoo enclosures!
Hi Emily and Ed!!!
Babiiiiiies! ❤
I noticed from watching different reptile channels that many snakes get stressed out and start acting out around cameras. I heard many RUclipsrs say things like: ‘that one snake is so much calmer and sweeter off camera’ or ‘you were fine earlier, why are you mad now?’ While on camera. Many stressed out snakes also directly hiss and strike at the cameras.
Anyway, I just hope that filming them doesn’t reduce their chances of taking their first meal!
I think it has to do with camera lenses looking like eyes. Big staring eyes that don't blink look like predator eyes to lots of animals. I have some shy aquarium fish that will tolerate me watching them, but dash to their hiding places as soon as a camera comes out.
I've also heard that it could have something to do with the infra red of the camera... I know my cat reacts only when the camera on my phone is working@@KySilvi
Great vid. I like that it shows how you don't have to know everything. You can look it up. And babies don't always eat right away. It's not as easy as it looks on YT. Thanks, E and E.
I literally look for snake discovery’s every day
BABY SNAKEEESSSS!!!! I love baby snakeeeeesssss they make me so happy
I got my first cornsnake at the end of November, something that has been on my bucket list to do for over 15 years, so I was very excited. I was told by the breeder that as he was only 4 months old, he may be very nervous and may try to bite me. When he arrived after being shipped, first thing I noticed as I opened the box was that he was in blue, so I thought I was going to have lots of sass from him. Turns out he's a sweetheart... He started letting me handle him after 24 hours in his new vivarium. His setup is a little bigger than recommended for a baby, but he has loads of decor including 4 hides so plenty of places to feel secure and he now uses all of his enclosure. He ate for me 3 days after I got him, has had regular meals ever since, and he shed just before or just after he ate for me the first time, which came off in one complete piece. He has also never even tried to strike at anything other than his large frozen/thawed pinkies, which he takes so politely from tongs while being fed in a separate plastic box. His favourite thing to do when I'm handling him is to tongue-flick at my nose, then climb along my glasses onto my head. He is the cutest. 😂
Big enclosures are not an issue for babies, as long as they're escape proof. You just need to make sure there's enough cover.
@@idiotically-everything yes, I believe it's escape proof, or at least we haven't had any issues yet 🤞. He still likes to scare me into thinking he has disappeared though, by burying himself in his substrate 😂. And between all the hides, fake plants and other decor I'd say he's definitely got enough cover to let him feel comfortable.
@@laurasmith5067 Yeah. I know the feeling. I keep losing my corn snake in his terrarium too, I gave him 30 liters of substrate (want to add another 30 l after the remodel) and now I can move the substrate around for ages and still not gind him because there's a ton of it xD
@@idiotically-everything oh my goodness! 😅 I would definitely not be able to find my little guy if I gave him that much substrate. I still like to give a good burrowing layer, but not so much that he's impossible to find. However, I've found a compromise that he seems to enjoy... I filled an enclosed hide (it's supposed to be a humid hide) with dry sphagnum moss. I don't like to leave damp stuff in all the time, so I would probably swap it out if he needed help shedding, but he likes hiding and sleeping in fluffy dry moss 🥰 bless him.
@@laurasmith5067 Aww, that's adorable. I've resigned myself into playing hide and seek with him, but he has a pretty impressive tunnel network so he can move around all sneaky
The Argentine Boa babies are so adorable
Emily and Ed, I have watched your videos since I was 10 years old. I'm almost 18 now but I love your channel. I'm sorry to here about Brad and Jupiter... and omnomelet.
You know my ball python was so hard to get feeding, until ...... I figured out she does not like wet rodents. My cats were not pleased when that happened because they usually got the rat 3 out of 4 times when I was still thawing directly in the water. Out of frustration I stuck a rat in a ziplock and submerged the bag in water. She destroyed that rat. So that's how I learned to disappoint my cats. Lol. I think the dry rodent has more scent on it. Just thought I'd share what works for us.
Yeah, I always wondered if it being wet would put them off!
Love to see the babies and not me trying not to snicker too much about bird poop frogs.
aww the new little dudes on the planet they are so frigen cute!
Snake babies!!!!!!!
I am sooooooo excited to let you all know I got my very very first snake yesterday!!!!!!!!!!
They are a teeny little baby corn noodle. A Cinder Motley Stripe Corn Snake. They are currently in a little baby set up and being left to settle in nicely for the next couple weeks. Due a feed next week. I have yet to choose a name but I'm considering cinder toffee or mac and cheese 🤣
After years of loving snakes and reptiles from afar, and watching this channel for years I'm so excited to finally say I'm a snake owner! 🐍💚😊
This channel has really helped give me confidence and knowledge about keeping my own. Thank you. 💚💚💚
Mac and cheese is a great name
Congratulations on your new snake!
Mac and cheese is such a good name for a snake lmao
Congrats on your little corn!! I have two corns myself, but took them in as 10 year olds, so I have never experienced the tiny shoelace stage. Best of luck to you and your noodle, whatever you Name them!
Congratulations, you’re living the dream! I’m still in that boat, my living situation isn’t pet-friendly atm. One of these days, though, I’m gonna rescue me a normal BCI. Suggestion: if you think you might get another one, you could name one “Mac” and the other “Cheese”!! 😆
I'm so glad ducks aren't as picky as snakes.
They are so sweet! All babies are prescious.
I love how all of there snakes are almost never head shy
I love this! Little babies make my day so much better!
The live baby rats?
@@halfassfashion lol the baby snakes not the rats!
Love your channel. Never thought I’d say that to people running a channel about snakes, but I’ve started to like the little buggers. 😂😂❤
OmG Baby Snakes Are So cute and they’re my favorite type of videos so I’m so happy❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Really cool video! Thanks for sharing some of the 'raising baby snakes' process. 😁
Aside from my general excitement at seeing updates on some of the babies, the info is great. Nice work! :)
I love that the frogs don't care that they're being caressed by the body of an unalived rodent. 😁
It's so strange to think back to the videos in your kitchen and now you guys are blooming with the zoo and shop!
I wish I was able to purchase a snake but unfortunately in Australia so have to settle for a teeahirt 😅
The frogs look so done hehe
You both are so inspiring
Great video. They actually make scents you can buy and put on the prey. I’ve seen ppl use it in videos to get baby venomous snakes to eat that are frog and lizard eaters. They make quite a few different scents. I got three ball pythons in the past year and they were fed live. Once they got acclimated to their new homes I had no trouble getting them switched over to f/t. I always made sure the rats were very warm bc they really sense the heat. Those banana morph babies were so pretty. Bananas are my favs. Really enjoyed this video 💜🐍
Congrats! They’re so cute!
So cute! Baby anything are adorable!
Just fed my new baby kingsnake for the first time today! Love the lil feisty guy already.
Yaaay! A feeding video! And babies! 😍
I just got a chance to visit the zoo and it's FANTASTIC. My 18 month old son loved it so much. He's obsessed with animals and the guided tour (which for anyone who hasn't noticed on the website before is totally free with admission) was just the coolest thing to him. He doesn't grasp that Rex isn't just another kind of dog yet but we'll get there.
Love seeing the babiessss!!
They look so cute 🥺💜
Didn't realize it was so hard to get a baby snake to eat! It's a wonder any live at all in the wild ❤❤❤❤
That banana mouth python is really cute
3:54 He sounds like a Minecraft zombie in the sun 😂
I love baby snakes!!! They so cuteee
Sameee!!
I have recently started breeding because of your videos i want to say ty im so excited to have babys and i love watching your videos so i can learn more and more about snakes there is alot i have learned about snakes from your videos
@snakediscovery @emily I love the video! I’m no professional but my personal BPs do not like wet mice or rats! The thing that has always worked for me was putting the mice in a sandwich bag before putting it in the water to thaw! I hope you see this ❤️❤️
Yep. When I worked with balls and boas, none of them liked wet food. Dry and warm was always the mantra. Boosting this in hopes they see it!
mad boi was angry like: "I WANT NO FOOD ME ANGRY😡"
I love watching snakes eating and it was especially fun this time around with the hatchlings! I remember when Emily would do feeding Fridays wayyy back, I would look forward to those videos the most 🥹 I’m still so amazed and proud of how far Snake Discovery has come!! Much love to Emily and Ed
Still super weird seeing y’all work with ball pythons 🤣 But definitely love it since that’s the species I have 💖 The baby falsies are sooo cute🥹
Goodness. I'm glad I'm not the only one going through this. Have gotten 2 out of 3 babies to eat. Third baby has refused twice now.
I look forward to you guys posting and when you do it makes my day. Tysm 😊
I’ve been looking forward to this type of update and feeding video for the babies! Thank you Ed and Emily for uploading
So many precious baby noodles! So cute!
18:38 I'm no frog specialist, but I don't think these frogs enjoyed their pinkie " skincare spa day"
ughhh, boas are SO stunning!!!! especially in the sun😍
Love a baby snake update😍😍
I've been waiting so long for this video!!! Thank you!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I appreciated this; you guys are experts, and if you have trouble it's a big eye-opener for newbies like me.
babiesss 💚💚 i love watching them eat.
Ed and Emily goes and feeds them*, ‘why you in my apartment?’ ‘It’s human scented should i eat 🤔’ ‘do You want to eat?’ They are all adorable
My guess is 5-7 mices!
I love you and you inspired me to get a bearded dragon. Not as close as a iguana because we don’t have them in Australia but thank you guys
Yay baby snake almost all of our fav:))
Another video another smile
Turns out, Drop Fed Frozen Thawed Fuzzies is actually reeeeeally difficult to say and yet Emily is just over here saying it like 27 times in a row with zero effort 😲 that's impressive!
i love the “puppet faces” of the ball pythons
Frozen thawed frog legs worked for me with this species. The boas that is. Never kept a ball.
Baby snakes are the best! 🐍 ❤