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Ok, so really not very interesting, but Garnet had her first shed in my care. All in one piece, no shredding, and she had just taken a mouse hopper the day before. I tried pinkie rats with her but she just turns them down flat. All in all, she seems to be adjusting well.

It's good to hear she's doing well.

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Paul D

www.MoonlightBoas.com

Sounds good and your 100% accurate humidity gauge (Garnet) is indicating adequate humidity!!

Some do refuse rat pinks, a rare few carry that into adulthood. Keep trying the rat pinks. When the time comes that you rally want to switch her over to rats, let her go hungry a couple of feedings if she won't take the rat. It won't hurt her to skip several meals while trying to transition her.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Sometimes it's easier to give them what they want. Lazarus, one of my male Dumerils is 6 feet long and about 10 pounds. He simply will not take a rat first. I have to feed him a teeny tiny mouse, then follow it up with a large rat. I once went 4 months only offering rats before he out stubborned me. What can I say... He knows what he likes

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Paul D

www.MoonlightBoas.com

Ouch... Luckily, my guy let's me sneak in a rat right after the mouse. He just needs his appetizer before the main course.

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Paul D

www.MoonlightBoas.com

Wow, that gives me a mental image of a small mouse army marching into the waiting jaws of the Burmese - how else could you do it??