One thing you reminded me of, my problem hypo's (and all my other BRB's that are not stellar eaters for that matter) seem to chow down better on mice as opposed to rats. Maybe mice are closer to naturally occuring prey? Quite often those problem ones will refuse a rat but if a half dozen mice show up - munch munch munch munch munch munch and surprise, one full belly.



I even see that in my babies, many will eat anything, others are reluctant to take down a rat pink, even to the point of refusing to eat that week. I've had a hard time with my mouse colony this year and have been feeding mostly rat pinks and saving the mouse hoppers for those that refused the rat pinks. For the most part when I pull the rat pink and offer a mouse hopper - wham!!
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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

26.49 BRB

20.21 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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