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My mom brought home a tiny milk snake that a friend wants us to get started. I'm not sure what to feed this little one. It is tinnier than my corn hatchlings and I've dug through my frozen pinkies and everything I find is too big. Even just the heads are at least 4x bigger around than his middle. He is almost as small as the hatchling green snake someone I know had. I've got the little one in a deli cup, papertowels for bedding, and with a milk cap for water in my snake room. Temps arond 84-85F.
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3.5 Normal Ball pythons (Hoss, Little Man, Adam, Helen, Annabel Lee, Cassandra, and cinderrella
0.3 Snow corns (Legolas, Eurydice, Clover)
1.0 Amel het charcoal (Orlando)
1.0 Hypo het anery het Amel (Antony)
0.1 Amel het Stripe (Cleopatra)
1.0 Caramel Motley poss het Amel (Flick)
0.1 Amber (Amberly)
1.1 Anery Stripe
0.1 Anery
0.0.1 GTP (Kissy the Red)
1.1 Haitian Boa (Enkil and Akasha)

And bunches of furry pets

I've started tiny snakes before on day old dwarf hamster pinks.
They're tiny!

Assist feeding tails from frozen/thawed hopper mice works well for me, cut off at the size appropriate spot. Beat a raw chicken egg as sort of a dipping sauce to help it slide down easier. Drop me an email if you want more detail, or I can walk you through it over the phone.

Good luck, Dale Ruffo (Paradise, CA.)

If I ask your Mom nicely, will you take a dozen or so of my obnoxious hatchlings and start them too??
I use a lot of mouse tails on a weekly basis but offer pink heads or tiny pinks and scent with various skinks and geckos to get the rascals feeding on their own. Be warned, there's always a few hard core non-feeders that will test your patience for a year or more.
Offer the tiniest head you have (seems impossible but it will go down) and if that's refused, hopper/weaned tails will keep the snake going for another week.
Obviously, heads can be left in the cage overnite tucked inside the hide or confine the hatchling with the head overnite in some way.
Lemme know if you need more headaches and good luck! Jeff

I have gotten real small or fussy eaters to start on guppies and other small feeder fish, if you try this and the fish stops flopping just poke him and make him start....the fish are shaped just right for the swallowing, this has gotten many of my small kings and milks to eat.