Originally Posted by Bogertophis
OK, well that took guts to admit...sorry she still refused (re-read my post #7...stop heating the pinkies!). Anyway, it's likely they lied to you & she's only been fed LIVE
pinkies, so for now, try a live one. When she eats them consistently several times, only then try offering 2 pinkies, first the live one, & then a second f/t one, prepared
as I previously told you. This is what it takes sometimes for snakes to "make the connection" and after she eats several times, she'll probably be able to eat 2 pinkies as
long as they're small ones. This is also how you teach them to just take f/t only. Keep at it, your tiny snake has been thru a lot...keep the stress low & DO NOT HANDLE.
Little baby colubrids need to eat & grow for a while first...Don't give up.
sorry I completely forgot to not heat the pinkys, about 5 people on a different forums told me that their kings went crazy for pinkys that where slightly heated with a hairdryer. Ill make sure to Only thaw naturally and no heat. When I go to a pet store again ill pick up a live pinky, I have not held her at all, only when I was putting her in the deli which was probably really stressful for her. When I try feeding her live do I put her in the deli again or just leave the pinky in the tank on a "platter", not sure if its a good idea for the deli again since she hated it so much. And when she eats them consistently 7 times ill then do the 2 pinkies.
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