The only problems I ever seem to have with my local pet stores is the amount that they feed them (once again, someone was under the impression that corn snakes, or ANY snakes, eat crickets. Sigh). The one I go to most often has had the same ball hatchling for at least two, maybe three months now. He's maybe grown a couple inches and gained a minimal amount of weight (basically, he doesn't look like a rigid triangle with a head anymore, he looks like a filled-out triangle with a head). Better, but not by much.
The worker who was handling the reptiles with me said he was still being fed fuzzies. Upon my amazement, he suddenly couldn't seem to remember whether it was fuzzies or hoppers they were feeding him. I tried to wrap the concept around his head that hatchlings can eat hoppers right out of the egg, and quickly move onto adults.
It's fun when we "act" smarter.
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