Yeah, very true Joe. Every once in a while, you get a juvenile here and there that is extremely quirky and so nervous they don't want to settle down enough to eat after they have seen a person (huge monster) until they are alone with the meal in a dark warm place for a while after this happens.

Out of the countless Hondo hatchlings I have produced over the years, it is very rare that they won't accept F/T immediately or at least after just a fairly short while with patience. But many years ago I had a hatchling that wouldn't look at a pinky either live or F/T no matter what I did for a LOOONG time. So I indroduced an appropriately-sized anole on the end of some long tongs, and BAM!, it grabbed it in a heartbeat. So I scented with anole for just a few more times, and it naturally began to associate the pinkie's scent as being food until after a few times of scenting, it accepted un-scented F/T from that point on.

In Nicaragua and Honduras, I am absolutely certain their main table fair would probably small lizards anyway, even though most all do generally take rodents right off the bat.

I guess his was eating foe a while on something, or it wouldn't be big enough for fuzzies anyway. But I don't know how long Paul (varanid) has had them.


~Doug
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• One is still not eating - varanid, Wed Mar 7 15:02:27 2012
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• RE: One is still not eating - joecop, Thu Mar 8 14:02:04 2012
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• RE: One is still not eating - varanid, Thu Mar 8 18:05:46 2012
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• Did you try live pinkies? - snake_bit, Sun Mar 11 19:55:49 2012
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• RE: Did you try live pinkies? - snake_bit, Sun Mar 11 22:20:16 2012
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• RE: Did you try live pinkies? - joecop, Mon Mar 12 13:34:59 2012
• RE: Did you try live pinkies? - snake_bit, Tue Mar 13 07:33:22 2012