I have four milksnakes, an albino nelsons trio and a pueblan. One of my female nelsons and the pueblan are about 20 inches, and eat readily on fuzzies all the time. The other two are smaller, 12 inches or so, and are harder. The little male albino nelsons has been really hard for me to feed. First, he regurgitated twice in a row. I now know that, after regurgiation, to wait ten days to feed again. But since then, he has been really hard to get to eat more often than every ten days. The only time that he ate more often than that was when I had to cut a pinkie in half, because all I had was larger pinkies. This is really annoying to me, since he isn't going to grow and breed if he won't eat.

Are there any tricks that you all could suggest? I've searched for some powder to restore bacteria after regurgitation, but haven't found any. I do have a breeding colony of mice, but they are new and haven't produced any live pinks or I'd try that. Any ideas on how to get him eating other than lizard scented and brained (which I've tried)?

My other nelsons that I got from the same breeder (I think they're sibblings, one from the first clutch the other from the second), has eaten almost three times as much, and is much more robust. The male is in shed right now, so I'm not really bothering trying now.



Thanks in advance,



Taylor

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• feeding tricks - animalmaniac, Thu Apr 15 12:50:41 2004
• RE: feeding tricks - nategodin, Fri Apr 16 11:22:43 2004
• RE: feeding tricks - animalmaniac, Thu Apr 22 08:00:14 2004