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I recently acquired 5 newborn asian vine snakes. I need to know what to feed them. They have just shed, and I have tried baby guppies, crickets, redworms, slugs. I need to find baby anoles, or baby house geckos, and I mean baby baby. The vine snakes are the size of cocktail straws. I have them set up in a 20 gal glass tank with a under tank heater and over head light. A tub of H2O is in the tank over the heater. THe humidity is about 85%, with temps from 75 - 90 Farenheit. I have force fed them anole tails when they were 1 12 weeks old. Any help is apprecieated,

Seth Myers

I to have cb babies born in may, from my own wc adults. The most important thing is to give them high humidity and good temp...like you have wisely done. They will most certainly die if the shedding does not go perfectly!!! I have lost one by the animal sufficating in its own skin. Secondly if you have baby gecko's its oke to feed them that. But like nobody has an endless supply of baby geckos. So the only option is to force feed them. I have fed my babies pieces of pinky from the beginning, increasing the size as they grew. Eventually they will start and swallow the food item on their own. The strike instinct is only activated by live moving gecko's, so they will never never eat dead...not moving....prey.
I am at the stage that I feed whole pinky's, by poking the pinky against the nose of the baby prasina. They grab and eat it from there on. I am certain they will eventually grab and eat live hoppers....4 week old mice. I have also information from other breeders that they will eventually eat mice without assistance. So for now.....keep humidity high(max) and start force feeding them (pieces of)pinky. Will be tricky at first, but you and the babies get used to it. After a couple of feeds it's a breeze. I personally used a blunt end of a cocktail stick to delicately work the piece of pinky in, while keeping my index finger on top, and thumb on the bottom of the head.
Anyway...good luck and for more Q's, feel free to e-mail me.