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This wildcaught female laid 13 eggs on August 13th and has been eating like a horse ever since. She will not eat toads for some reason,but did eat f/t anoles like popcorn,then she just started taking f/t rat pinks. Shes put some nice weight on. Kevin Fisher

How do you do it? I have 2 WC female southerns that show absolutly zero interest in ANY kind of food. Anoles, toads, tree frogs, etc.. They lost so much weight, that I have been force feeding them for the last 2 months just to keep them alive. I had to start with baby food until they were stronger, then pinks, and now fuzzies. They have put the weight back on, but still will not eat on their own. Any suggestions? I am prepared to do this for the rest of their lives, but really do not want to. I forgot to mention that one arrived blind (seller forgot to mention that when I bought them) so for her it would have to be a total scent thing.
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Jenea

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I noticed my southerns not finding their water bowls in they're cages and if a snake is thirsty it will not eat most of the time. I had this problem with kennerlyi too in the past. Gently pull your southerns over to their water bowls and let their mouths touch the water. After they drink,they will eat that day or the next most of the time. Rhino vipers and gaboon vipers for example will dehydrate and die with a large shallow water dish 3 inches in front of their nose because they don't recognize standing water so they have to be pulled to the water and their heads misted to simulate rain. Also,I keep my southerns at 80 degrees with a small heat pad under one side of the sterilite and they love it,laying on them all the time basically. When I pick my simus up they're bodies are very warm to the touch. Hope this helps. Undertank heat pads are a life saver,plus the humid hide boxes I have for them. Kevin Fisher

I have two males that wouldn't look twice at s.toads..or anything else..
Then after a huge downpour, the spadefoots came out....they both attacked the toads before the lid was closed. Something about those spadefoots sometimes...
:Mark
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