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My 09 Pacific striped gopher snake Zola always gets the live pinks the pyros didn't eat, as is the weekly routine. Well, I was in a hurry so I just popped Zola into one of the feeding jars that belonged to one of the pyros, along with the pinks, a large amount as the pyros are beginning to slow down as the winter season comes on. She didn't eat any of them, even left in the jar all night. The next day I put her in Gonzo's ( 08 Pacific gopher) feeding tub and she still didn't eat. So I finally put her in her own feeding jar and she immediately ate them! Her jar is the same as the pyros' jars. I guess she just didn't like the smell of the other snakes in the other jars.

Zola and her mate Zigzag. She is the redder one. He has gone into brumation but she is going to be like my big Pacific Gonzo, eating all winter at this rate, as long as she gets her own jar! LOL!
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

Great observation! I have a couple SDs that are hit & miss when feeding, but I do rotate tubs thru kings and milks....

Thank you for the thought provoking. I'll let you know if mine start taking better when I designate a tub just for them.
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6.7 pituophis c. annectans
1.1 senticolis t. intermedia
1.1 rhinechis scalaris
1.2 lampropeltis m. thayeri
2.1 pantherophis g. guttatus
1.1 lampropeltis t. campbelli

1.1 pituophis x pantherophis
1.1 lampropeltis campbelli x thayeri x nelsoni

I will be most interested in your results. Snakes use their sense of smell to navigate their world, as their eyesight is not very strong and they of course have no ears, so must feel vibrations through their bodies.

I inadvertently did a rather unkind thing to my mice once; I had a large quantity of barely used aspen bedding from changing the bedding in my snake cages, so I recycled it through the mouse tubs. The mice were a little put off by that at first but after a thorough search realized there was no snake lurking in their bedding.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

She regurgitated that bunch of pinks, I think because of the upset with the jars, but I didn't' see that had happened until I fed her again in five days. While she was in the feeding jar(her own proper jar) eating the next meal I looked under her saucer hide for poops, and was shocked to see the gob of undigested pinks, the very ones she had not wanted to eat before. Well, there was nothing for it, I had to leave her with the next meal already in her belly, no taking them out of her! So I very gently put her jar with her in it back in her cage. She leisurely left the jar and went under her saucer. I also had turned up the heat there, as the nights have been getting colder lately. Every day for the next five days I peeked under the saucer. There she was digesting peacefully. Today she left the saucer, and under it was a nice big fresh poop.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire