gfx wrote:



"Back to the snake tho...if it were my het hypo, I think I'd tweak the husbandry a bit and see if I could entice an appetite through a change in temps/enclosure size/humidity/prey size, etc. If he continues to be a lousy eater into adulthood, I'd probably look for a different animal for my program, but assuming he's perfect in all other ways, I'd be really careful of the type of linebreeding done on him and only use him on snakes of outcrossed lineage."



And I was getting ready to write almost the exact same thing. These snakes are all just a little different from each other in how they do things. Up or down a few degrees in temperature can sometimes get one to start eating better. Many of them pass up one food item and take another. I have always thought that live mice were the favorite meal for most BRBs. I do sometimes wash live pinky rats and then scent them with live or fresh killed mice. Like I wrote they are all individuals and do things differntly from one another. After some recent posts on here about feeding quail to a picky eater I have found that a few of my babies that do not take frozen and thawed mice will take frozen and thawed quail instead. BTW, I have 8 het hypos here and only one of them has had any feeding or puking problems. All the rest are chow hounds.

Jeff

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