farbideen wohnzimmer

welcome to another episode reptil.tv technique topic today is the forced feeding of reptiles i think a lot of people think they have to forced feed animals to quick my animal did not eat one week. it happens often to early! today we talk about lizards and snakes. let's begin with the snakes snakes generally are true hunger artists, they can not eat for months even years on my hand is a really skinny animal this a animal we got from someone out of bad conditions if i look at this animal i would say the snake did not eat for a year or even longer

you can see it. the animal has a triangular body shape the animal should be round, but you can see the spinal column on top this animal is about 1 meter long and has 500-600 gramm this is a animal that is really skinny now it is time that the snake eats if your animal looks like this one and did not eat for 0,5 - 1 yeah you should think about doing something i often get emails about this topic and i ask for a picture then i get pictures back from fat snakes that did not eat for 6 weeks if you then force feed them you make the animal stress. don't do it to early

a python can easily eat nothing for one year befor you force feed go to a veterinarian and if he looks like this snake you have to think about force feeding so the animal has something in his stomach do not force feed it too early because it can hurt the animal ball python does eating breaks for 2-3 month, that is normal so do not worry too soon now we talk about lizards, it is quite similar there green iguana and crested gecko are a little sensitive

the get in a new terrarium and don't to eat for one week even the eublepharis with his fat tail as a storage after bringing him to a new place he doesn't want to eat for 2-3 weeks, and that is ok forced feeding is also not good for him we can differentiate the animals with a fat tail storage like some gecko species other animals like bearded drangons son't have this advantage if you get bearded dragons and the don't eat for one week it should give you something to think about here i have a really skinny animal he does not look good

you can see it good. the hip bones look out his tail is triangular and not round, you can also see his spinal column also on his head there is missing the meet under the skin you should not let yourself be distracted by the belly a well fed animal can also have after 2-3 days not eating a flat belly that is just what is in the stomach and not a good reference hip bones and tail root are a good hallmark if you see them it is time to do something the animal needs food or is sick and needs a veterinarian

after 2-3 days and if the belly is not round like a ball you can relax this episode should not say everything is fine, don't worry. that's not how it is meant if the animal is healthy and the climate is ok then you do not do anything good to the animal when they are force-fed with our 3-times a day meal thinking we can't compare that with reptiles some reptiles can stop eating for days or even several month, just remember that and then every thing is fine for your animals

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