Hi -

I had to look up the word "vitellus". But I agree. That doesn't sound like a good plan for feeding your sand boas.

Yours would be able to eat tiny pinkie mice if they wanted to. While you're trying different things to convince them to feed, if you are afraid that they are loosing too much weight, just insert cut mouse tails into the back of the boas' mouths. They are the perfect shape. The snakes' feeding response will take over and they will swallow the tails voluntarily.

That at least gets some nutrition in them. You could even coat the tails with vitellus if you wanted to.

-Joan

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• Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand boa ? - a_chen_tw, Sat Nov 25 15:05:16 2006
• RE: Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand boa ? - CBH, Sat Nov 25 15:47:10 2006
• RE: Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand boa ? - a_chen_tw, Sat Nov 25 16:37:35 2006
• RE: Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand boa ? - rosycorn, Sat Nov 25 17:54:42 2006
• RE: Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand boa ? - SuzieQue, Sat Nov 25 19:57:16 2006
• RE: Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand boa ? - BEHMN8R, Sun Nov 26 23:08:30 2006
• RE: Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand boa ? - a_chen_tw, Mon Nov 27 17:23:07 2006
• Mouse Tails! - jfmoore, Mon Nov 27 05:10:50 2006
• RE: Diet Instead for tiny newborn sand b - phwyvern, Mon Nov 27 08:50:29 2006