Hey,..that's great news!, I like when that happens..LOL!
To keep the snake interested in keeping up a good feeding response, make SURE the snake is good and hungry before offering food to it, at least for several more feedings. This will give the snake a good reinforced association with prey items, and act as sort of a "confidence" booster to the snake. The last thing you want to do now, is to stop the ball rolling by possibly scaring him with a live pinky in closed quarters that he doesn't want to eat,.....I know it sounds silly, but it happens quite often.

As for getting it to eat F/T pinks, usually after several live feedings, they usually go for dead ones with no problem. Sometimes a good thing to do, is(after thawing) put a piece of wire screen over a lamp bulb, so it can warm up slowly to mimic the natural temp. of a rodent, this often works well for me.

Anyhow, that's great that you got it feeding again,.....keep up the good work!


~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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• he finally ate! - zpops, Wed Feb 6 23:18:05 2008
• RE: he finally ate! - HerpZillA, Thu Feb 7 03:30:13 2008
• RE: he finally ate! - jtclark, Thu Feb 7 12:19:14 2008
• RE: he finally ate! - balisong, Thu Feb 7 19:52:42 2008
• RE: he finally ate! - zpops, Thu Feb 7 19:58:27 2008
• RE: he finally ate! - balisong, Fri Feb 8 19:27:51 2008
• RE: he finally ate! - DMong, Mon Feb 11 14:09:42 2008