Thank you Max and Dusty and so sorry for the delay in response.

I finally tried offering him a fuzzy last week and he ate! Then I gave him another one yesterday and he waited until the middle of the night to eat it. Everyone else eats immediately.

This is a classic example of subocs wanting to eat small prey. This is one of the biggest males I've ever seen and he had been eating adult mice (albeit small ones) prior to the breeding season coming on. The other male we have who is a third the size of this one eats three fuzzies at a time. I guess they just like their mice small!
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Lisa Rakestraw
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My skinks:
1.1.0 Corucia zebrata (Berman and Joni)
2.3.3 Egernia striolata
2.2.0 Eumeces schneideri (Jack and Mabel; Kaa and Cochisa)

Hubby's snakes of the Southwest:
0.1 Lichanura orcutti (Rosie)
0.1 Lampropeltis pyromelana (Little Red)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer (Jennifer)
2.0 Bogertophis subocularis (Humphrey and Oliver)
0.1 Lampropeltis alterna (Sandy)

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