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I have 31 hatchlings presently from 2 clutches. I waited until after they shed to feed them.

I gave each one a frozen/thawed (f/t) pink. I have a bag of 100 pinks of mixed sizes. I tried to pick out the smallest pinks.

Anyway, of the 31, 21 have eaten. The other 10 did not seem interested. Interestingly, the non-eaters are almost all anerys/ghosts. I have 10 snows, 8 amels, a couple normals, and 11 anery/ghost. There are about 4 anery/ghosts from each clutch that didn't eat, along with one of the snow and one of the normals. All the amels ate nearly instantly. They all came from the same clutch. All of the snows from that clutch also ate pretty much right away.

The remaining non-feeders are also noticeably smaller than their clutch-mates, although some of the feeding ones were also small.

I'm going to try live pinks tomorrow and see if that makes a difference.

That's interesting. We have 22 hatchlings of which 5 are anerys and the rest are normal. Tried feed f/t pinkies, as soon as they shed. If they didn't eat, we tried again the next night. The last two holdouts were anery (one of which has finally eaten, but it took dipping the pinkie in chicken broth to convince Zeta to try it) and one of which seems determined to starve to death. If Pi won't eat tonight I'll try to find him a live pinkie for tomorrow.
Could easy acceptance f/t pinkies be genetically linked to red pigments?
Corinne