Nutrition for california snakes

All snakes are predators, and never eat carrots and lettuce and bread and cookies and such.a california Snake’s diet varies from species to species,it is recommended for use in literature for optimal matching of food for every california snake, however most of the snakes in captivity sre used to eating mostly mice and ratscalifornia snakes

of Course considering preferences of each individual snake. Adult snakes eat once a week to ten days, and young california snakes every 5 days. A medium meal should  provide  each week and a big meal once every two weeks. The california snakes can fast for weeks and even months, but feeding is recommended to keep its health, while managing and tracking  the california snake’s eating habits.

We must not allow a mouse or a rat to be in the california snakes cage for over an hour because they can eat the snake, a phenomenon not uncommon among  beginers. Also recommended to leave the cagewhith rodents food to keep them full. Many california snakes have no preference if the food is alive or dead, sume california snakes will  eat only died  food. Frozen food should be used after complet defrosting.
If the snake does not eat,  maybe he prefers to eat in hiding, he may prefer a different kind of food, some california snakes prefer birds, others will be happy to eat baby mice, but they refuse to eat adult mice.
In extreme cases you can try to stimulate the snake by the smel of the animals blood whith a  stomach injury or head. Feeding  by fors  is a traumatic event for california snakes and is not recommended, if this is the last resort you should ask a specialist, if there can be no serious harm to the california snake.
Once a month to three months the california snake will shed its skin, eye color becomes opaque (cloudy) back towards clearing per year, after several days the california snake will shed its skin. the shedding itself is afew minutes, first in the lips by rubbing objects. During the shedding Most snakes prefer not to eat.
Often the california snkes skin is not removed completely per year, this phenomenon is a result of lack of moisture, you should keep the humidity of 40-70 percent in a cage. Daily spraying of water on the snake after eye color brightens, helps to prevent the phenomenon. Shell residues must be removed by soaking the snake in the bath water at a temperature of 22-30 degrees Celsius for an hour, so that skin remains will be removed easily. in california problems stem from lack of moisture that indicate poor nutrition.