Tips on getting corn hatchlings to eat?

[Blue Apple Herps]

I will do the deli cups again and slit the backs open on the pinks. If that doesn't work I will brain them. They just crawl over the live pinks now so I am going to go back to the F/T and see if it works out. I have one that for some odd reason didn't have a good first shed and I am working on helping it get that off. All the others had great first sheds. THANK YOU to everyone for their help. I have a 12 year old son who is freaking out over his snakes not eating and he checks the forum everyday and he reads trhe advice and keeps me up to date on it. Once again THANK YOU!!!!!

Just to add, I imagine as a 12 year old he's super excited and checking on the snakes often. If they're problem feeders or being difficult, I will pretty much leave them alone as much as possible. I will only check on them/disturb them every other day just to make sure they have water and it isn't soiled, etc.

So you might just try feeding them (regardless if it works or not) and then just leaving them alone only to make sure they're OK. I wouldn't take them out, handle them, look at them too much, etc. I think sometimes they're just so small they get freaked easily and isolation is best.

Just something else to think about. But out of hundreds of corns I've hatched, there have been maybe 5-6 that never ate and eventually died. With a little patience and tricks, you'll have these guys up and feeding in no time.