Newborn Burmese pythons should start by feeding 2 1 day-old mice or small reptiles. When your snake grows to 90cm, it can swallow the newly weaned mice. At 120cm, he has the ability to subdue adult mice. If you can feed your snake regularly (65438+ 0-2 times a week), your snake will grow rapidly and ensure its health. Maybe you want to control its length, then you can reduce the frequency of feeding, and its growth will become slow, but you should feed it at least once every 10 day. But when your snakes can eat big animals, such as rabbits, you don't need to feed them too often.
Many raised snakes can adapt to eating dead animals or frozen and thawed animals, which is safe for snakes because it can prevent snakes from being hurt by live prey, such as being bitten by mice. Avoid catching snakes after feeding, which will make them feel stressed and vomit. Don't let live mice stay in snake cages as food. If your snake doesn't eat the mouse within half an hour, please take the mouse away, because the mouse will do fatal harm to your snake. Don't touch your snake with the hands that have caught mice or other animals. He may misunderstand that your hands are food. The frequency of molting depends on the growth speed and health of snakes. At first, the molting eyes were foggy, then they became clear, and then they were going to molt!
Molting may occur every 3-6 weeks, and Burmese pythons will refuse to eat during molting. If the environment is dry when molting, you can spray a little water on the snake, which makes it easier to molt!
Cultivate your snake to have good eating habits. When the length of your snake exceeds 1.8m, you can move it to the snake box first, and then feed the dead mouse to find its prey. After a while, your snake no longer expects to get food in the cage. This can prevent yourself from being misunderstood by snakes as food.
Record food intake and health status. Perhaps at night and in places without lights, your python is more active in foraging, and may need a box as an ambush prey to hide. And try to feed different kinds and sizes of mice. If your snake refuses to eat and starts to lose weight, you'd better contact the local reptile veterinarian or experienced reptile breeder to find a solution. Loss of appetite is a nonspecific symptom of most diseases.
Pathogen:
① The ambient temperature is too low (at night);
② Overcapture and games;
(3) The variety of bait changes too fast and its volume is too large;
④ In molting or reproductive period;
⑤ There are other kinds of snakes in the cage;
6 parasitic ticks, lice and other parasites.
Prevention and control methods:
Pythons are nocturnal predators and can resist hunger when they can't catch food in the wild. It is usually introverted, and catching and teasing it artificially will directly affect its food. You can also try a new bait feeding method, that is, putting newspapers, empty bottles, small wooden boxes and so on. In the feeding environment, kill the bait rats, open their heads, squeeze out the brain juice and smear it on the nostrils of other bait rats, or rub it on the body surface of rats, and cut the big bait rats in half for feeding. There is a small snake in eastern North America, which likes to eat and avoid animals. It often makes baited mice taste like them before feeding them. This method can also be tried. Non-poisonous snakes usually eat in late summer (end of August) and start a natural hunger strike in autumn and winter. Newly hatched snakes can't eat for 2~3 months. This is a normal phenomenon, not loss of appetite, and there is no need to prevent it. Pneumonia (respiratory infection) is mainly due to the sudden change of climate, and the players did not take heating facilities in time. High humidity, turbid air, cold water immersion, and hot and stuffy nest in summer may all cause pneumonia! The condition of pneumonia looks very annoying, with bubbling nose. I often open my mouth and find that the color is normal, and there is no trauma after opening my mouth. I don't like to stay in the nest, crawl slowly and drink a lot of water. My head was breathing at a 45-degree angle, and there was a loud rubbing sound when I was breathing, and I finally died of respiratory failure.
Pneumonia is contagious, and snakes must be treated in isolation after being caught unfortunately. Pneumonia is caused by streptococcus, staphylococcus and so on. It invades the respiratory tract of snakes, produces toxins and infects the lungs. The treatment of pneumonia can be divided into oral and subcutaneous injections. Let's talk about oral administration first: oral administration is a relatively safe treatment method, but oxytetracycline, erythromycin and gentamicin are generally selected for rapid oral administration without therapeutic effect. If it is in the final form, the drug can be diluted with needle and water, and the dosage is still 1/4~ 1/5 of the human body, that is, a tube of water can be used four times, of course, once a day or once in the morning and evening. Subcutaneous injection: Subcutaneous injection is the fastest and most effective treatment. Because pneumonia is generally caused by Gram-negative bacteria or Gram-positive bacteria, the drug can be penicillin or streptomycin, gentamicin or compound berberine, and the injection of penicillin or streptomycin for head bag can be 654.38+10,000 ~ 200,000 units (depending on the severity of the disease). The dosage of other drugs is also controlled at 1/4 ~ 1/5. If the condition is serious, the first medication can be aggravated on the original basis. Some injection sites are subcutaneous or muscular. Let's talk about subcutaneous: when balancing your body with a pet, you can use a needle to enter between scales obliquely, and then inject drugs into the muscles. Choose the place where the pet breaks the thick muscle, and insert the needle obliquely along the muscles on both sides of the spine. Note that whether it is subcutaneous injection or intramuscular injection, you can't push all the drugs at once, and you should be more than 25 square centimeters. The number of intramuscular injections is still twice a day, such as ticks. Often found in snakes caught in the wild, they are located between scales and suck blood. Slightly soaked in water to drive away!
Treatment in severe cases: apply vaseline until the parasite dies within a few days, and then remove it by hand. Especially individuals captured in the wild. Symptoms: emaciation, vomiting, refusal to eat and lack of activity. The common parasite in the body is Hei Bang flagellate.
(1) trigone
Schizophrenia is the larva of tapeworm, and snake is the second intermediate host of schizophrenia. Sparganum is mostly parasitic under the skin and generally harmless to snakes. If the crack head is parasitic under the snake skin, it can be cut open with a sharp knife and then coated with 1%-2% iodine anhydride. Sparganium is parasitic in other parts, so it can be used as an appendage of other parasites without special treatment.
(2) whiplash arthropathy
Parasitic in the lungs and trachea of snakes, it is very harmful and can suffocate snakes. For this parasite, animals can be given trichlorfon solution by gavage, with the weight of 10 mg/kg for 3 days.
(3) Corynebacterium elegans
Parasitic in the alveolar cavity, covering the affected part for a long time, causing the snake's lungs to be eroded and die. Tetraimidazole for treatment, 0. 1-0.2g/kg body weight.