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I took all my non-eaters (they are home, not at my school) and put them into seperate containers. I gave them a few days to get use to their new settings. Then I took the pinkies and washed them with Ivory soap and then dipped the heads in tuna juice. 13 out 32 ate. Any other tricks or ideas? The snakes are almost 2 months old.

On another note, I have a two year old that just stopped eating about 2 months now. Any thoughts? The same thing happened to one of the snakes I gave a student. His hasn't eaten since mid August either. He has decent size, should I try putting him down for the winter?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Brian

I tried tuna for the first time ever......30 some of them.........non feeders...tuna water on pinks.......not one ate......suxx.....

.....I used to use anole or deer mice or hamster scent.....

by scent I mean blood and brain matter not just rubbing them ON the scenting critter......

........good luck.......I now gave up...they eat or they don't..........no time to scent here much ......

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sell them all............
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I used tuna water on about 40 that had not eaten once since hatching in September. At least 20 grabbed the scented pinky right away and wolfed it down.

starkissed or bumblebee?.....maybe mine tried the wrong brand....

.....none ate it here......

...........you would think that even by accident one would have eaten it......

next time I am trying peanut butter and jelly or spaghetti sauce........

(it's a joke people).....

....heard of worms and guppies (comment : as per Rich Z)....

here they get mice pinks or else......
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......and noone wants the big girls anymore....wow..................
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i would first try increasing your temps a few degrees before anything. i wouldnt put the animals away for winter unless they are nice and fat if skinny at all they wont make it. my guess would honestly be temps if others are following the trend.
adam jeffery
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"CARLOS MENCIA FOR EL PRESIDENTE"
hybrid breeders association
1.1 puebladurans
1.1 sinacorns
1.1 hypo corns
1.1 crimson corns
1.1 striped ghosts
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 mbk
1.1 albino corns
1.1 childrens python
1.3 ghost corns
2.2 butter(both females motley)
1.0 snow corns
1.0 jurassic milk
1.0 house snake
0.1 anery pueblacorn
0.1 bloodred
0.1 eastern milk (eatin pinks)
0.1 striped albino corn
0.1 albino nelsons
0.1 anery motley
0.1 normal corn het hypo,anery
0.1 hypo tang hondo
0.1 rosy boa

Here are a couple methods that have worked for me in the past

#1 place the snake and the smallest live pinky you can get in a juice jug or slurpee cup with a lid on it. The small confined space with no hide seems to give the snake nothing else to focus on and they eventually eat

#2 use the same method but put said item in dark warm closet

#3 also when none of these work I have another method that never seems to fail . Keep in mind this is only for TROUBLED FEEDERS

hold snake firmly right behind the head. Use pinky's nose to pry snakes mouth open. usually once annoyed enough the snake helps a litttle her and takes a bigger bite at the pinky head. Don't let go yet. Some are more hesitant then others and need to be held in this position without moving on a counter or a flat place until they take it down on there own.

I have had a 100% sucess rate with this method although you may have to repeat 2-3 times

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2.2 Columbian common boas (Zeus, Athena, Aphodite, Hades)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)

Thanks for the ideas. I have raised the temps on my two year old. I am slowly getting my non-feeders to eat. I still have 12 stubborn ones and I am rotating live and force feeding. Over the last week, I have had about 30 non-feeders eat. A lot of time, but worth the effort.

Again, anyone on Long Island that wants a few non-feeders to work with, leave a note.

I don't know how breeders do all this with hundreds and hundreds of babies. 90 babies have pushed me to the edge! lol

Thanks again!

Brian