Favorite hatchling finally ate!

[rabernet]

I can feel your pain. I had to assist feed the two holdbacks from my last clutch twice. They finally took their last meal on their own.

If you don't mind a little advice, though... you mentioned that your snake failed at an assist attempt. Assist feedings stress out the snake quite a bit, but every assist feeding should be successful if you have enough patience. Sometimes you have to assist a little bit more or retry several times before they get it, but it's worth it to get the food in them.

Agreed. I even tell those I've had to assist feed - you can fight me all you want, but in the end, you're going to get this meal in you. ;-)

For some reason this season, I've had more animals that don't want to get started as readily. Now my over achiever clown took a rat fuzzy a day after her first shed - good girl! LOL

But the pastels still haven't had a meal (though their normal siblings have), so I will be assist feeding this weekend. I never want to let an animal I deem needs to be assist fed go so long without food that assist feeding becomes a rescue effort.

Also - congrats on your baby eating!