That's good news.....I am very sure you will see that your snakes feel better with the time, as soon as you start to feed mice mice ''with some extra water''
From my experience it makes a very very big differencem espacially with savannah, desert and/or karoo species.
Today my 1.1 Bitis cornuta (Springbok) startet to feed on their own, they accepted their first pinky a few minutes ago, after some weeks of being force feed using the stomach tube.....as you can see, it works, it's safe and also extremely important, I have never had any additional losses since I use this method.
Today's a good day...
Cheers my friend
Marco