Can you provide more details on when and how you are feeding them? With my most timid feeders, I found actually presenting f/t food in their hide, at dusk with NO distubances afterwards was my best bet. With the wild caughts I kept, I usually covered their cages after I presented the food item and then left them alone for up to 12 hours. Sometimes just checking to see if they'd eaten was enough to shy them away. Strangely enough, I've had good luck with f/t with timid feeders that would retreat from live prey items, no matter how small the pinks were.
Good luck with them, all the way from Germany- so they must be something special!


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Lora

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• Looking for help from mandarin keepers... - jfirneno, Fri Feb 11 09:48:29 2005
• RE: Looking for help from mandarin keepers... - thmpr134, Fri Feb 11 11:27:09 2005
• Bryan, thanks for the info.... - jfirneno, Sat Feb 12 08:18:47 2005
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• RE: Looking for help from mandarin keepers... - lolaophidia, Fri Feb 11 19:42:17 2005
• Lora, I'm going to add your suggestions into the mix... - jfirneno, Sat Feb 12 08:35:29 2005
• RE: I've never had to force feed them ... - lolaophidia, Sat Feb 12 09:31:16 2005
• Thanks Lora. NT - jfirneno, Sat Feb 12 11:01:21 2005