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Posted by regalringneck on June 04, 2002 at 07:13:10:
In Reply to: Picky and frightened redchin male! posted by Peter Andersson on June 03, 2002 at 18:10:22:
Peter, an easy solution is, you need to start offering this beast different prey, otherwise you risk losing it. The guardians eat a wide range of prey in the wild & have done so for a few million years or so, you probably want to quit fighting this & try & duplicate it. I find many snakes (not all) @ different stages of life insist on certain prey, they're hardwired for these. Offer it a good fresh roadkilled snake/lizard or fish & watch your fingers! Later, you can move it over to the proper captive diet of straight flagel & rats!!!
: Hi, my eastern yearling has become a quite troublesome feeder... (mostly been difficult since I got him in march this year) He hasnīt been eating for a couple of weeks now!(no shedding on the way) I have to lure him when feeding him f/t mice but it takes a lot of time and effort and it doesnīt work every time... At first he seems to be interested but then something else comes to his mind! Several times last week I have failed and I had to throw the mice away... My other two eastern females and my kingsnake canīt eat them all! ;)
: There is no problem with my females and the conditions are the same for the male indigo.
: He is in good overall shape, still!
: I have run out of ideas, someone got any suggestions?
: /Peter
: Ps. A few evenings(he usually wonīt take anything at daytime) ago I lifted his hiding place away and found him buried into the substrate and tickled him on the his back with the mouse, held with a plier, to get him curious. He hissed some and finally he came up striking repeatedly the mouse like a rattler but he didnīt take it, he was really mad! Maybe this was unwise of me but I have allways been gentle to him before and I liked to try! By the way, Iīm not looking forward to meet him in that mood when he is 6-7 feet long! ;)
