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Hi,

I hope you guys can help. I'm having a hard time getting my both bloods to eat. We read somewhere to knock the pinkies out and lay them right in front of the "hiding" places. That's what we're doing and one pinkie is always gone so one of the two is eating, just don't know which one. Both gained some weight within the last three weeks. We have a few snakes but we never had a blood python. Are there any tricks we should know about?
Thank you!

First of all I would seperate the two into thier own enclosures, this way you know which one isn't eating and maybe one is stressing the other out.So hows your temperatures, hot spot and ambient temps.Hows the humidity.What kind of cage are they in.This will all help with everyone to answer your question.Also what kind of pinky are you feeding a blood, hopefully a large rat pup,or an adult mouse, pinky sounds a really small.How old are your bloods?

Like Ethan said, its probably due to stress because of the enclosure. But without more info its hard to determine. You might want to try a small live mouse, they usually need to be weaned over to PK or FT. If you still want use pre killed put a little chicken broth on it or cut there skull open (mmm brains...)
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"It's my snake, I trained it, so I'm going to eat it!" - Mad Max, The Road Warrior

First of all, you need to separate your bloods. I would not house them together in the first place, esp. not during the acclimatation period, by which I mean until your blood has eaten 6-8 times. If you choose to house them together anyway, at least separate them during feeding. You will avoid a fight between your snakes and you'll also be able to know which one eats.

How old/large is your blood? Was it feeding well before you bought it? Can you tell us about their set-up? I've just bought one two weeks ago, I offered it adult mice twice and she didn't think about it too long, believe me.

Here's a good link: http://www.proexotics.com/blood_article.html

Try this and come back if you don't get results.

Mark