king snake and weird eating...

actually i've never had a problem getting very young corns to eat live pinks - as the pinks barely move around at all. that's what i fed all my young corns... but this little girl... i haven't tried on live.

i'll give it a shot, worse case scenerio, she won't eat it and i can feed it to my other corn who's still on pinks ;)

but thank you regardless :)

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Originally Posted by _BoidFinatic_

I have noticed that sometimes young colubrids are too intimated by the movements of live pinkies and fuzzies to even go near them. Young corns and kings that need to take their first meal will take longer to catch on to eating if they are offered live pinkies as apposed to p/k or f/t ones. With p/k and f/t, they are able to smell the entire body of the item without having it bump into them, which makes them slither away.

I would stick with the f/t pinkies. If your cali has been eating f/t pinkies, then we know that f/t isn't a problem and so live wouldn't matter.

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Granted, I don't have a TON of experience here...but that's the complete opposite of what I went through with my young colubrid. He started out eating f/t and seemed to be doing ok with it for 2-3 months...and then just quit eating completely, no matter what I tried to do to get him to eat. It wasn't until I broke down and offered live that he ate...and he hasn't fasted like that again since. (3 years ago)

That's just my personal experience.

she ate... she ate... she ate...

i gave her a live pink and left her alone... went in this morning to check on them and there was only a snake in the enclosure!!! she realllly like the newspaper and curls up in it... so i'm leaving it in there. anything to keep her happy.

i'll pre-order another live pink for next weeks feeding!

shelby you have to be one of the best artists iv ever seen...i just checked out your deviant art and whoa is the word that comes to mind

I know this thread is a bit old but I figured I would add my $.02 of helping with picky colubrids.
The use of 1 or 2 of these techniques is a good start
-Keep the snake in a deli cup over night with its prey
-Use a live mouse(pinky or fuzzy olny!)
-Braining(poking a hole in the head of the dead mouse to expose the brain matter)
My favorite to help picky feeders was the braining and the delicup overnight. Its like solitary confinement and it keeps them focused on one thing, eating

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Originally Posted by _kyle_

shelby you have to be one of the best artists iv ever seen...i just checked out your deviant art and whoa is the word that comes to mind

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Call the cops Call the cops.................this thread has been Hijacked!! :D

Congrats Aleesha!...................maybe she likes that smell of fresh live pinky....or maybe even just the stronger smell from being with her litter that triggers her to eat......either way........i'm happy 4 ya!