New girl ate like a pro!

I'm excited! I picked up a tiny pastel female from a friend. She is a clutch mate to my other 09 baby, Delilah, but she is only about half the weight or so. There were only two babies out of the clutch that really ate well, the rest had to be assist fed, and are still shoddy feeders.

Anyways, the pastel girl I had wanted finally had enough meals in her to be good and stable. I picked her up on Sunday evening (it's about an hour drive). I was told she wasn't fed this week b/c she was being moved and that she was about to shed. The warning was also given that she would only eat if you left her alone all day in a dark place, and didn't even *think* about opening the tub after putting in the prey.

On the way home I noticed that she had already tried to shed, but all that had come off was her head =/ So I misted her tub before I put her in it, and after about half an hour decided that the shed really needed to come off. So she got a short soak (she drank a ton!) then slithered through a damp washcloth for a while and everything came right off. She wasn't real thrilled about it, but I figured she would deal with it.

I needed to feed my other smaller guys today, so I went ahead and picked up a mouse for her. I have a bottomless pit that would eat it if she didn't want it. I didn't really have time to do anything special, so I just dropped the mouse in for her on her turn like I do with everyone else. She watched it for a while, then *BAM!* Yay! She's like a pro...I don't know if it was the extra days with out food or what, but she wasn't shy at all! I'm so happy!

I just hope she keeps it up! ^_^ None of my guys are shy feeders (*knock on wood*) and I'm thrilled that I don't have to tiptoe around her like I thought I was going to have to. :D

Whoo! She ate again yesterday! I'm feeding her on a 3 day schedule for just a bit b/c she is so small. I think it will be interesting to see if she ever catches up to her sister. They are from the same clutch, but since she took so long to start eating, her sister is considerably bigger. It will be cool to see how those first months effect their growth.

Yay!!! Congrats!!! It always makes life sooooooo much eaiser when you don't have to do a song and dance so to speak to get the new additions to eat!!!

Yeah, none of my others are picky and I was a bit nervous about having such a shy girl. Needless to say, I'm thrilled!

My last guy that I thought was going to be super shy was my mojave...and boy did he prove me wrong!! He went crazy for a couple of feedings striking at any heat source or movement. He started doing that right after I told someone he was shy. It was a kinda "I'll show *you* SHY!"

He's also the only one that has tagged me! :P I hope she follows him in his feeding response!