Terry made some good suggestions below, but the only other thing you might want to try is setting him up in a small, opaque sterilite or rubbermaid. I've found that even a 10 gallon tank can be overwhelming to any neonate snake, and especially for such a little guy like your Baird's. If he doesn't eat the live pinky you have him in with this time, get a small sterilite or rubbermaid, ventilate it, try a bedding like cypress or aspen that he can burrow down into, add hides a small water bowl and leave him alone another week or so. Then try feeding him in his container (just watch closely to make sure he does not get any substrate in his mouth if he takes it). Sounds like the little one is just very, very stressed I have had lots of success with this method with reluctant feeders from newly hatched retics, carpets and corns to fussy amazon trees. In fact, I currently have a 2 year old CA female boa that goes off feed every time I move her out of her 20 gal long tank into something more spacious. She's around 4.5-5 feet long and just seems cramped in there to me, but whenever I move her into something bigger (have done this 3 times now) she will go off feed for weeks! When I move her back into her 20 gal., she always eats for me within a few days, so I figure better to have her a little cramped and eating than starving herself from stress. By the way, I have had her since she was 2 months old and I also have her brother and he eats like a champ no matter where he lives! Good luck and keep on being patient!



>>I let my bairdi sit for a week untouched didnt even open his cage except to add water. I got a live pinky today and put him in the brown bag with the pink about 4 hours ago and i just checked and he hasnt eaten it..i stood there and watched him for a minute and he was smelling it and pushed it around and it was just wiggling. What now? How long can the pinky stay alive away from its mother?

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>>I put it in a deli cup with the mouse now and i'm gonna let it sit overnight.

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>>Current snakes:

>>0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat(Lola)

>>1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)

>>1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)

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