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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    Quote Originally Posted by Phillydubs View Post
    You have 2 dum’s? Or you had one and no longer do?

    ive been really researching these hard and I partially blame you and this thread ! But they are so darn gorgeous and I want one!!

    i keep hearing mixed reviews on feeding. I’ve always heard that boas will eat anything but it seems these are tricky or hard to get started

    makes me wonder if I am better with a well started adolescent if and when I go this route

    they seem to be harder to find these days or one offs from
    random stores or people.
    Haha, sorry for the confusion. I have 1 dum and 1 Tanimbar scrub. Tooootally unfair to compare the two, especially as far as feeding goes. But I’ve never seen a freaking snake so small eat so little!

    They are beautiful and good tempered and all kinds of good stuff. I believe there are a couple people on the forum who got their dums at 2 years or so and have had no problems at all with feeding. She was 6 months when I got her and was feeding consistently for the guy....he fed her in front of me the day I brought her home!

    Honestly, I stopped worrying about it after awhile, because she looks and acts perfectly healthy. She’s just VERY small for her age, so that’s starting to make me feel like I should do more for her...but maybe she’s just a small girl. Would help if she’d eat more than once a month, but she just doesn’t wanna!


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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    Having a staring contest with her new friend.

    Now, I don’t want to jinx it just yet...but I may have found the secret to getting this picky eater to nosh! LIVE RAT PUPS!! Ok, they’re more like rat fuzzies, BUT STILL. I’ve gotten her to slam them twice in a row! This is the only time I’ve EVER seen her exhibit an actual snake-like feeding response (aside from at the pet store when I got her).

    She was eating live hoppers when I got her last year, but I switched her to f/t after a few months because I got tired of trying to keep them alive when she skipped a meal (or several). She always seemed scared of them...but apparently, tiny blind rats are less scary and more delicious, because I’ve never seen her take down a prey item so fast! Much less two in a sitting, TWO feedings in a row!

    Maybe my tiny princess will turn into a big princess now! Yaaaaaay! I will update in two weeks if I get lucky again


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    2 things...

    #1. Yay eating!!!!

    #2. Where did Nagini's handsome friend get his Doberman t-shirt?

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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    She's so cute! And I love the name, of course. Here's hoping rat pups do the trick!

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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    Quote Originally Posted by hilabeans View Post
    2 things...

    #1. Yay eating!!!!

    #2. Where did Nagini's handsome friend get his Doberman t-shirt?
    So he told me the shirt belongs to an ex, but he thinks he got it from Cotton On? Tried to find it on the website, but no luck

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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    Well, turns out it is harder than expected to find a reliable source for rat pups! I thought, “weeell, it’s been a year or so since she’s been offered a live mouse. Maybe she’ll be more keen on them now.” Nope. Didn’t happen. She acted interested, but then went back to sleep.

    Luckily, that meant I got to toss my scrub live food for the first time. And that was hilarious. He looked at it, then back at me like, “what sort of devil worship is this?!”

    To be fair, he was both deep in shed and napping on the ground. I never feed him on the ground, because he gets derpy as hell and ends up confused and with a mouth full of substrate He kept watching it, then looking back at me like he was being tricked.

    Anyway, Nagini shed and clearly shows no signs of starvation, despite her constant “LA diet.”




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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    Them pinks are just insane, so cool

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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    Quote Originally Posted by richardhind1972 View Post
    Them pinks are just insane, so cool

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    I second this very much!! Almost borderline red it looks like!!

    so so pretty

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    Re: Nagini, princess of the Dumeril’s.

    Yessssss!!! Looks like we have the answer! Little mama slammed a weaned rat and a rat fuzzy today like it was nothing. I can’t freaking believe it. All this time, she has just wanted a different prey item.

    I have offered her live rat pups 3 times now and 3 times she has taken them without hesitation. As in, she hunts them like an actual snake!! I have never seen a normal feeding response in this animal in over a year.

    Case in point, I tried to offer her food last week, but live rat pups are hard to come by. After much effort, I decided to try a live mouse, thinking she hadn’t been offered that for a year or so. No cigar.

    I am so stoked to see this little runt put on some size now that I’ve discovered the secret! We’ll hope for another win in 2 weeks


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