ok,
I am trying to help someone.
There is a new pet store chain in town....PetLand or something like that. I have been looking at all the pet stores at the snakes lately, and getting ready to get one for myself. I stopped at this PetLand, and started asking questions about her balls. What are they eating...

She says so far she has not gotten them to eat. She is in charge of the reptiles, but is a lizard/amphib fan, and knows little about snakes. She was willing to listen to advice and do whatever, as she wanted them to be healthy and was concerned that they had not eaten.

I am by NO means an expert, but I tried to help. Here is what I found out, and what I recommended...and I am supposed to stop back on Friday to see how things are going. They have 3 baby balls in a pretty good sized aquarium. Prob like a 30 breeder, but turned on its side so it was more tall than flat. there was some branches, water bowl, and hiding spot, and bark substrate. The balls were very young, among the smallest I have seen. She said they got them in 16 days ago. She has tried to feed them pinkies, and a lil fuzzy mouse, and they dont seem interested at all. She does move them into a separate container to feed. The only glaring things that I saw wrong was heat. durring the day there is a repti-glo UV bulb, but no heat. She says at night they do have a blue heat bulb....but I am not sure that it is directly part of that setup or more of a general bulb. I told her to get them warmed up, that could be one reason...she was putting a heat bulb on them when I left. I am also wondering if she should try a bigger mouse...is a fuzzy to small to be interesting to a baby ball?

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

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