Baby pastel ate!!

[Cohazard]

I got this female pastel last weekend at repticon in Costa mesa. I weighed her and she is tiny and looked thin at 61gs. I stressed all week but just left her alone in her enclosure hoping that letting her get fully settled before trying to feed would be a good idea.

Well I fed my growing tribe today and everybody ate enthusiastically even the albino stuck in shed.

This girl didn't eat!!! I offered her a rat crawler and she just looked freaked out. She struck at it twice but either missed, or was trying to scare off the rat crawler. I'll never know.

But I just left the crawler in there and just now after sundown I checked on her and she had wrapped the crawler and started eating it. Man I'm super relieved.

Long post, I know, but I'm just super stoked all 7 snakes are eating and no foreseeable problems with feeding until I try to get everyone on f/t.

So here's the little female pastel

[CrazyPiston]

I really like her pattern. Looks like she's already got some good blushing on her sides and peeking through between the stripe on her Back. Glad she ate for you.

[se7en]

always nice when the little ones eat for the first time

[Sonny1318]

I have seven myself, glad I just wanted one. It's such a great feeling when they all eat. I've kept mostly boas for the last thirty years, with a couple of life interruptions. It's hard when your use to snakes eating regularly, then you try keeping balls. I recently played with their temps, bumped everything about two to three degrees. So far it's been great. Good luck!

[se7en]

17 of 18 have all eaten within the last two weeks.

the stubborn one hasn't eaten since november.

[Cohazard]

Thanks for the support on this forum. Now that she has eaten her first meal with me I can go back to daydreaming what to breed her with lol

I would like to produce more pastels with her stripe, non-jungle pattern.