Basic Food Facts

Before you purchase your snake make sure get a good knowledge on the proper handling, feeding, and care.

What To Feed Your Snake

Smaller snakes such as garter’s can eat things such as live crickets and live small pinky mice. As they grow so will their food. A snake that is about 2 foot to about 3 ½ foot can eat the live baby pinky rats or the larger adult sized mice. Larger snakes will eat adult rats, pigeons, etc and so on and so forth.

How Often?

It’s good to feed young or small snakes enough to hold them over for about two weeks at a time but the much larger ones if fed a good healthy amount of food they can go for a couple of months no problem.

You can always tell by looking at the bulge in their body as the bulge goes down you’ll notice they become more active this is usually a good sign that their ready to feed again.

Proper Food Handling

It is best when feeding a snake to be sure and keep all extremities at a distance. You can do this by having a smaller opening to the cage to drop the food through or by using a set of tongs or something to that nature.

Checking The Cage

When feeding snakes food such as mice and rats you will want to be sure there is no one left behind because if a rat or mouse is left with a snake without a appetite there is a danger of the prey becoming the predator. So don’t leave any live critters for more than an hour or so and keep everyone safe.