Quote Originally Posted by Slim View Post
It's great to hear your RI snakes are coming around and responding to treatment.

Interesting situation with your Fire. At 600 grams he's certainly big enough to have the girlies on his mind. Are you keeping him in close proximity to any females of breeding age? If you are, you could try moving in further away from them. I understand moving him might not be an option depending your set up, but I learned this trick from a breeder a few years back who swore by it.

I would only consider force feeding as a drastic last option, and I would try assist feeding well before I got to that point.
When I got him in November, a guy at the show popped him and yelled "Sperm plugs!! Find him a woman!" and he was only 6 months old, then.

He's about 5 feet away from 2 breeder females and 3 juvies and there's no way I can put him anywhere else.

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I'd never force feed and I have no idea how to 'assist feed' a live angry mouse to him so that's pretty unlikely, too.

*Once* I snuck a small F/T in his mouth as he was finishing his small live mouse and he did eat it but that little sucker's never forgotten that stunt.

If he even sees a F/T now, he tears off into his hide and "kicks" me with his butt if I try to touch him.

He really is a very clever jerk.



Since we're talking about breeder girls, one of my het Clowns gals is occasionally to be found coiled up but laying sort of on her side, as in I can see her belly.
She eats but not like a hog as she was doing a month ago.

She's been with the het Clown male.

The aspen shavings around her water bowl look as if she's been squeezing around that, too.

Does that signify anything?

I checked her temps in case she was 'too hot' but they were they same gradient as ever.