SIB experts....advice needed!!!

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Originally Posted by Lucas339

ok so i have a pair of SIBs. they were born in Feb. i have been feeding them frogs every 5 days. for the past month i have been trying to switch them to rodents with little luck.

here is what ive tried:

all methods have involved a few weeks of no food offered.

unsented live pinks
f/t pinks soaked in frog water
f/t pinks rubbed on frog
f/t pinks soaked in frog water with frog skin on them

all methods were left over night with little to no success. i had one that ate a f/t soaked pink with frog skin one week, the next a soaked and then the next week a refusal. the other one went 22 days without a meal so i fed a frog.

any advice?? im running out of frogs and this is starting to get expensive.

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One of the guys at Ben Siegel's (I think it's Brian) told me that if you rub I think it's wet turtle food (the sticks) on the pinkies that they will take them. You might want to give them a call & get more details. Apparently that's how he converts them.

Good luck!

success with one but the other is still holding out. this time i tried unsented live and the male took it not problem. the female was uninterested. i left the live pink in over night with no luck and then put some frog skin on the pink and placed the snake in a container with the pink and then put a live frog in a clear container for the snake to see the movement of the live frog....no luck!! i am going to wait a couple of weeks and try again.

here is the male:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q.../SIBeating.jpg

Huzah! Yeah, mine is a year old and he's still only interested in frozen about 30% of the time. They're picky little SOBs. lol

Congrats on the one! Hopefully the other takes a pink soon.

I've been trying 4 weeks with my girl, gave up and gave her a frog the other night. I'l probably try again in a few months.