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My 10 week old greyband will still not eat. I purchased her from a breeder that sold her after her first shed. I have tried the following methods such as: feeding ft pinkie, feeding a live pink and keeping in her cage overnight, and brain the pink. At this time now, I am force feeding her mouse tails which is her only food source. I was told by the breeder that after 5 or more feedings, she should go for the thawed pinkie. I want to try the scenting method with a lizard but I am not sure which one to get. The other promblem is I live in Delaware and I do not have lizards in my backyard. Do I get one of these guys from my local pet store? Any help is greatly appreciated!!!! I just want to get my little girl to eat. Thanks, Michelle

You could actually go to a pet store and get lizard shed skin pieces . Even wrapping a small piece might be enough .

Ground skinks and Fence lizards seem to be their favorite but anole skins ,etc can easily work.

Try this:

Take the frozen pinky and wash it very throughly with hand soap. I've heard bar soap works best, but liquid soap has worked for me.

Thaw out the mouse as you normally would and tease feed your snake.

If washing alone won't do the trick, then try lizard scenting.
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
4.3.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Everglades Rat Snakes
1.0.0 Baird's Rat Snake
1.2.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snake
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Het Amel San Diego Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snake
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
2.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (1.1 River Road, 1.0 Non-Locale Specific)
0.2.0 California Kingsnakes
0.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
0.1.0 Florida Kingsnake
1.0.0 Boa Constrictor
0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa
1.1.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
0.1.0 Tangerine Honduran Milksnake
1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
1.2.0 Ball Pythons
1.0.0 Woma Python
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Macklot's Pythons
1.0.0 Western Hognose
0.1.0 Blacktail Cribo

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.0 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Striped Walking Frogs
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs

Please don't take this the wrong way but this has been discussed very recently on this forum and everybody is probably tired of posting the same answer to the same question again. In fact this question has probably been asked and answered dozens of times on this forum. If you scroll down 1 or 2 pages you should easily find some long threads on this topic. Sorry if I sound blunt but I want you to get help but many people have just answered this a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Aaron at Tue Nov 21 14:56:06 2006 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

Please don't take this the wrong way but this has been discussed very recently on this forum and everybody is probably tired of posting the same answer to the same question again. In fact this question has probably been asked and answered dozens of times on this forum. If you scroll down 1 or 2 pages you should easily find some long threads on this topic. Sorry if I sound blunt but I want you to get help but many people have just answered this a few weeks ago.

Please dont take this the wrong way but no one is forced to respond to any questions and thus no one should be tired of answering anything as its just as easy to ignore questions that your tired of .
Not eating is the #1 problem with these types of snakes and thus its going to be frequently asked again dont take this the wrong way.

You will note that I directed the individual to potential answers when nobody was helping them. It was the least I could do and the most I felt like doing, bye.

Aaron, it's not worth responding to the person responding to what you said. It's a troll lurking.
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Steve W.

You're right and I lost my cool but sheesh, how hard is it to scroll back a couple pages. I only tried to help.

Next time I will remember to go count the triads on my pyros before I respond. LOL... I hope, LOL.

LOL! Good answer, Aaron!
Todd Hughes

When greybands are shipped in the fall, they commonly go into hibernation and will not eat no matter what you try to feed them. Let him hibernate, then he'll eat when he wakes.
In the wild, they hibernate at 69 degrees in Big Bend, perhaps a degree cooler in the Langtry area. Keep him dark and cool for about 3 months. Force feeding is a never-ending chore that in these cases usually has poor results. The same applies to Mt. Kings and North American milk snakes.
Another thing you can try is to put a whole litter of pinks in the cage, it gives them sensory overload, and they'll eat. If that doesn't work, pull the plug.
Bob Mackin