Bredli Feeding Help

20g... oh wow.
I don't know much about the Bredlis but that seems very very small.
Maybe someone else can jump in here.

You might have to get the smallest mouse pink you can find and assist feed..?

Does it seem aleart?

I had some pretty tiny ones this weekend, smaller than her head, I still have one. My new baby ASFs are quite small but they grow by the day. She is extremely alert, active, when I open her bin, she often tries to come out.

I hope she eats for you.
Keep us updated

Thanx, and I will.

This may be a stretch but try to put something in the enclosure she can perch on, like a small stick/pvc rod or something and place the pink below (that is if she actually uses it lol). I had this same problem with my first carpet and he finally ate after adding a few 'ambush' sticks... not sure if thats actually what made him decide to eat again but you never know.

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Originally Posted by katiekat

This may be a stretch but try to put something in the enclosure she can perch on, like a small stick/pvc rod or something and place the pink below (that is if she actually uses it lol). I had this same problem with my first carpet and he finally ate after adding a few 'ambush' sticks... not sure if thats actually what made him decide to eat again but you never know.

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Already on it. She has had a perch in her bin since Ive had her, she is almost always perched.

This is from ectotherm.

" Convincing some baby snakes to eat can take patience and proper presentation. When I slide my boxes open I offer a warm food item within an inch or so of the snakes face and then pull it away. This will often draw the snakes attention to the food. I take care not to touch the snake with the food item at this point and simply wave it around the heat pits and then pull it away. If the snake refuses to strike after a few minutes of this I will gently tap the food item one inch behind the snakes head on the neck. This will sometimes elicit a strike and if it does I immediately let go of the food item so that it is in the snakes mouth getting coils thrown around it. It generally takes 12 weeks before I become concerned with non-feeders. This is simply an estimated time frame and if my eyes tell me a specimen needs help I act sooner. At that point I will offer live meals. If a non-feeder accepts a live meal I will follow with two more every seven days and then begin offering frozen again. There are always a couple of stragglers each year that I am forced to assist feed. After three assists I begin offering live. After a snake takes three live meals I let it get hungry and begin offering thawed again. "

Hope that helps.

Quick update. I tried assist feeding but she just wouldnt have it. Spit it back out everytime. I woundup bringing her back. I hope he can get her to start eating. I did however get another female that was eating and she took a mouse pink for me saturday night. Ill get a thread going with pics at sone point. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

I hope he gets her going.