Pigs

My normal will eat everything! She came from a situation where she got one mouse a MONTH. And she's something over 600 grams. So she will eat whatever, whenever, however she can get it. I stagger my feedings by species, so if there is something left over I give it to her- she ate three days in a row.

granted, the extras were only pups....but she will nom on anything presented. Lol!!

^ We have a very similar normal girl - rescue, wasn't being fed correctly - she is just the sweetest girl, and I swear she groks gratitude. Every Wednesday, shed or shine, she's at the front of the tub doing her begging, and takes anything we give her with no more than 2 seconds to give it a sniff and make sure it's a food!

My first BP, Vince the super pastel, has also never refused a meal - even if he's curled up into a ball at feeding time, or deep blue, I can prod him gently with a food offering and he will stick his snoot up to see what's for eats - he sometimes takes a moment to think it over, but so far he's my most reliable boy. <3

^ Me too - my 2-3 year old normal rescue girl came to me at 203g 3 months ago. After 3 feedings of small mice on a 5 day schedule, and then ~15% weight rats on a weekly schedule after that, she's now 321g right after a poo. She's not missed a meal.

She swallows her rat and goes into her hide, but immediately pokes her head out in a hunting pose. The same the next night and every night. In the morning when I change her water and check for soiling, she pokes her head out again. Although it's nice to see this as "friendly", I'm pretty sure she's checking for another meal... But, she's never striked at me, bit or been "aggressive" in any way or even hissed. The other night she even came out of her hide and climbed onto my arm!

You want to talk strong feeding response get some clown morphs! My Clown's practically fly out of their tubs when I have rats out. I had one stand up so high that I just tossed the rat into the air and she caught it. Wish I had a camera set up for that one!

I hope this is true, I want to get into Clowns sometime in the future! :)

I bought 2 young BPs on 2/20/16. One was 148g and the other 111g. One has accepted all 5 offerings of a 15g f/t mouse and the other has accepted only 1 and that one was left in the enclosure and was gone the next morning. Last attempt to feed he did not take it so I left it in the enclosure again but it was still there the next morning. He just refused an offering again so I can only hope that it will not still be there tomorrow morning.

My young one Sadie has a stellar food response, sometimes she strikes the f/t feeder so hard she flings it across the tank haha


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Originally Posted by gaitedappy

My young one Sadie has a stellar food response, sometimes she strikes the f/t feeder so hard she flings it across the tank haha


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Nice. You know when I was a kid and had snakes I always fed live and thought it was watching something being killed that was so fun but now I know that it is just watching it eat that is fun/rewarding because I get the same pleasure watching them eat f/t.

My YB will not take food from me. I have to leave it in his feeding bin. Then he takes it when no one is looking.

my female black pastel pin on the other hand goes completely beast mode whenever I put her in the feeding bin. She's going to tag me one day I'm sure.

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Originally Posted by Snipes Ma Bipes

My YB will not take food from me. I have to leave it in his feeding bin. Then he takes it when no one is looking.

my female black pastel pin on the other hand goes completely beast mode whenever I put her in the feeding bin. She's going to tag me one day I'm sure.

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I left the mouse in the enclosure and even observed him slither right over it but the mouse was still laying there this morning. :(