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Last night was feeding night. Not exactly sure on the temperatures in the enclosures, but I would estimate high 70s to low 80s. The normal striper spent alot of yesterday in her water bowl. The albino striper knew it was there, took a couple drinks, and went back into hiding. Around 10 p.m. I attempted feeding.

I put 1 large pinky on 1 side of the normal striper's enclosure. She looked at it, poked around it, and then fled to the opposite side of the enclosure, WHY?? After about an hour and a half of the mouse sitting there, I gave it to my eastern king.

I held up 1 large pinky mouse on one side of my albino's enclosure, right near an opening in the newspaper, where I had seen her hiding. She jumped out and grabbed it from me. Took her about half an hour, but she got it down. Then, I dropped a day-old pinky mouse infont of her, which she attacked as soon as it hit the ground. Then she took another one after that.

Mike
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....Mike, the fact that your other kings are feeding indicates the T's are probaly OK [78-84], small calis like many colubrids in nature are lizard/snake eaters, raiding rodent nests is too dangerous [see any rubber boa for proof of this]. Some dont give up this hardwiring easily & I used to beleive calis wouldnt eat gartersnakes as many of mine refused to eat them.
I recommend you get some live anoles, feed half - freeze half & eventually tie the fuzzy to the f/t anoles.
PS, that is one gorgeous eastern on the getulus forum

Cheers, RxR

i live in fl most of the year so i have anoles ever where so senting is easyer the when i am in nj the best why to sent a pinke is to take a anole and break off the tale and milk some of the blood and put the blood on the nose of the pinkie i would put as little as need to get the snake to eat the pinkie and next time put half the blood of the frist time. the other why i know works great with jungle corns(half cal king;half corn snake)you take the corn snake or sum other snake who will musk you and put the musk on the pinkie and this always worked for me
sorry you have to do this .i know how much fun at is NOT
kevin

Hell, I wouldn't really care. She barely eats, and anything is better than nothing. Feeding her snakes wouldn't be a problem for me, it's just she won't take them. I'll try a f/t rat snake in a couple days.

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have you tryed to put the snake in to a cooler(70-75) room for a week and then put a pinkie in and hope
been here with my snakes i feel for you
i would think about force feeding it soon to
hope it eat something for you
kevin

Have you tried covering the snake with a bowl and placing a live pink in with it? Have you tried braining a pinky? Have you tried scenting a pinky with a lizard? Have you tried a lizard?
If it ate mice before it will again......You need to arouse its feeding response.....Braining works for me, especially if you brain the pinky and place it and the snake under a nontranslucent bowl........There are many other methods Email me again if you need any more help.......
John Lassiter

John,

I have tried every method of braining, along with moving the snake into seperate feeding containers, etc. I have no access to live pinky mice, and doubt that I ever will, therefore that is out of the question.

I don't have any lizards, not even frozen, on hand so I can't try scenting with lizards yet. But I'll be trying a brown snake tomorrow, I had a cali king try and eat a brown snake a while back.

Mike
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