From Lee Abbott stock. I received her last year just-hatched and she went w/o food for almost 4 months. I tried almost everything, and resorted to force-feeding several mouse tails and a brief cooling at 55F. Still no response to any of the other tricks (including scenting with house geckos). I thawed out a baby fence lizard I'd caught months earlier (which I'd squeezed a bit too hard upon capture and it passed by the time I got it home, thus freezing for future use), wiggled it in front of her, and two flicks of the tongue later she pounced on it so hard that all 10 inches of her shifted to the other side of the shoe box. She constricted, ate, and several feedings later I proceeded to scent pinky mice with another fence lizard I had on hand. Within 5 weeks she was eating thawed pinks, and almost one year later she is an awesome 28 inches long, turning lighter gray-silver with every shed, and feeding fiercely on small mice. In all my 15 years of breeding snakes, these are my first gray-bands as I have worked primarily with zonatas, pyros, and Indigos. I can now see why there is such a passion and complete alterna culture.
Jerry Kruse 
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