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My babies have shed a while ago and I have tried to feed them rat pinks and they don't show any interest in them. and now mice pups.
What can I do? or What should I be feeding them?
Any ideas or hints?

Thanks!

Are you feeding live? If not try live. Do not try to feed them more than once every three days, otherwise you will just make them too defensive. Try leaving a fuzzy in a tub with the snake overnight. If they really start to look weak consider assisted feeding. However, it is usually a week after the first shed before they start showing interest in eating...sometimes two weeks.
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"stupid is, as stupid does" --Mama

gerbils are supposed to be really tempting for a snake that wont eat...

Out of all my hatchlings that I bought this year most of them started eating on their own within a couple of weeks. But I have found that some are a bit picky - I have two that were terrified of live food but ate f/t like candy - I have one is just about 5 months old and it's only meals have been when I've assit fed him - I've named him headache.

For the most part for difficult hatchlings I find that if you leave them overnight with a slow moving live food item (that can't really hurt them) like a rat crawler or fuzzy mouse they tend to figure it out for themselves. Make sure they have darkness and a hide and feel secure make sure they don't have to do too much hunting and that the food item is close and a constant temptation.

They are all different but 99% of the time they will start eating on their own - it just takes patience try one a week - don't stress them out and good luck!
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Tosha

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The babies hatch out on 6/11 They have all shed.
I first tried feeding them rat pinks. I put them in there tubs about 9pm when they were most active they sat over night and into the next day when at 5pm I checked to see who ate. All the pinks were still there. The pinks were live. I left them in there tubs till am and checked again still none had ate. At 6am I removed the pinks. I waited 5 days and tried it again still nothing. I left the babies alone. 5 days later I tried what I call mice pups, there little and are not that active.
From a recommendation of a friend. And still nothing. Not one ate, so I waited a week I took the babies out put them each a in brown lunch sack and put a mouse pup in. I let it sit over night and all day. The next day I checked to see if any of them had ate and sure enough not one of them ate.... Now what??

Wait three or four days then try again.

This has worked for me sometimes.
Put all the mice together in a small box for about an hour,then offer them.They will smell a bit more that way.
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Charles Glaspie

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