WC!! Need help and advice

totally, i just changed the substrate to aspen, he's already getting under it and loving it. And tomorrow is the Hunt for Mice Pinkies. lol

It doesn't have to be fancy. Whatever works for you. My 18" corn loves his hides and I only used an old Hotpocket box. His cold side hide is a cat/dog water dish with little cut outs for handles. He crawls in and stays on the inside of the plastic.

So what would be the best way to feed him when I get some pinky mice? Seperate tub or put the pinky on a piece of paper in the same tub?

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

So what would be the best way to feed him when I get some pinky mice? Seperate tub or put the pinky on a piece of paper in the same tub?

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Juvi milksnakes/kingsnakes generally eat lizards and other small snakes, so chances are it will not readily take pinky mice. Even if you could get it to eat pinkies, I would still suggest releasing it back into the wild.

If you insist on keeping it, I would offer it a pink(just set it in the enclosure). If no response, scent the pinky with a lizard then attempt the next feeding. If you get no response for 4-5 weeks, then feed a small lizard. Resume this cycle until you get success with the scented pinky. Then work on getting it to take unscented pinkies.

Heaven knows....you might be lucky and get a strong pinky feeder right off the bat.

I had a little wild-caught milk like that (not as pretty tho ;) ) for several months; he was very shy and wouldn't feed anywhere he thought someone might be looking at him, not even in his tank! After a couple of weeks of refusals, I put him and the (live) pink in a paper bag, closed up the top with a couple of staples, and left him in there for a couple of hours. When I checked on him, the pinky was gone! And he took it the same way for the rest of the time I had him. Just my :2cent: on how I got a similar snake going.