Those Old Problem Feeder Blues

[Prognathodon]

This is not a request for assistance, more of a whinge.

My husband's orange ghost, Kiyohime, is our resident problem feeder. She was born in September of 2014, and we got her a year later. For a while she was eating live, but I think she got nipped and was acting fearful of rodents for quite a while. We got her switched to f/t, but she still doesn't like vicious attack mousies (that get laid in her enclosure without fanfare) and would. not. eat. rats. She was willing to eat day-old chicks, but had a regurge after a couple.

She's been eating maybe once per month, medium mice. From a high of 485 grams she's down to 415 grams. She's currently in a tub in our homebuilt rack with the other BPs, who can be a little flaky about eating, but are 1100-ish gram girls, so no worries about them. Handled very little, food offered every two weeks, left in her tub overnight.

I'd gotten some frozen day-old rabbit kits for my carpet pythons and the boa, so I weighed the pros and cons: nutrition content shouldn't be a problem, might be different enough from mice to be acceptable, she could fixate on rabbits, but I'm ok with keeping a stock on hand. So I found a small one, and after thawing and warming it up last night, I snuck it into her tub.

No bunny, but a nice lump and a "What?!?" look when I opened the tub this morning. Hopefully we can get a repeat performance in 10 days. Even if she never catches up to the big girls, I'd like to get her back to *some* growth.


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