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well yall my new sunglow i got because it wouldnt eat well guess what he ate today and i now am going to have my hands full. it turns out the person i got him from got him from someone else and this snake has been hand fed hes a 3 1/2 ft pinkie eater i was wondering if he would eat a pinkie so i tryed i layed it in there and he just looked at it i picked it up with forceps and he went after it so i called the guy and he did some checking yep it turns out the only way this snake has ever eaten was by hand and pinkies only that could become costly how in the world am i going to get his bigg butt to eat mice lolany input will be great.
Sorry so long yall
EDD

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My Leucistic Texas Rat is doing the same... he really frowns upon fuzzies (today he bit at one, looked like he'd start swallowing, then spit it out), but goes after pinkies (multiples) like they're going out of style.

It was suggested to me that I simply let that meal pass until next time. And if the snake doesn't eat next time, let it pass again... and again until it eats - the idea being that eventually that fuzzy will look very appetizing. Unfortunately, I broke today and tried to rub a pinky on the fuzzy. Well, he got the pinky and you already know what happened to the fuzzy. Now I gotta start all over because I broke first!!! LOL.

Good luck!

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3 Corns - Squall (Normal), Freya (Normal), Peyton (Amel)
2 Florida Kings - Thor & Lilith
1 Leucistic Texas Rat Snake - MacLeod

might i say awesome looking snake that is one of my next to own snakes but im wanting the blue eyed one veryyyy pretty one
edd
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0.1 Miami Phase CornSnake
1.0 Normal CornSnake
1.0 Sunglow CornSnake
0.1 Standard Ball Python
0.0.1 Rough Green Snake
0.1 Striped Albino Califorina King Snake
0.0.1 Legless Lizard AkA Glass Snake
1.1 Mediterranean Geckos
0.2 Green Iguanas
0.1 Blue Stripe Iguana
0.0.1 Blue Tounge Skink
2.1 Oscars (FISH)
0.1 Albino Oscar

>>might i say awesome looking snake that is one of my next to own snakes but im wanting the blue eyed one veryyyy pretty one
>> edd

He actually does have "blue eyes"... they're just black because I had to adjust the pic for Red Eye from the flash. LOL.

Definitely get one... very kewl!
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3 Corns - Squall (Normal), Freya (Normal), Peyton (Amel)
2 Florida Kings - Thor & Lilith
1 Leucistic Texas Rat Snake - MacLeod

This may be odd, but I have a snake that is partial to the color of the fuzzy, mouse. If it is a dark or black, he wont eat it. Try cutting the mouse. Some call it "brainin", but I have problems cutting open a mouse's brain. Any smell of blood will encourage the appetite. Good luck

>>This may be odd, but I have a snake that is partial to the color of the fuzzy, mouse. If it is a dark or black, he wont eat it. Try cutting the mouse. Some call it "brainin", but I have problems cutting open a mouse's brain. Any smell of blood will encourage the appetite. Good luck

Thanks! It's not that big of a deal for me (he's still only 20 inches long and a baby - unlike the originator of the thread's snake). I'm gonna try waiting him out to see if "absence of food will make the stomach growls grow stronger" to the point where he takes the fuzzy. If he doesn't eat the fuzzy after the 3rd week, I'll give him a pinky and keep trying.

It may be that he's also responding to the change in seasons (something another poster said) and only accepting smaller meals at this time, so I'm not too worried. He's just the only one out of 6 that hasn't been a regular eater.
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3 Corns - Squall (Normal), Freya (Normal), Peyton (Amel)
2 Florida Kings - Thor & Lilith
1 Leucistic Texas Rat Snake - MacLeod

let it go wothout food for awhile and put mice in with them.....yea.mice not even fuzz....and they eat or they don't....

week later throw in mouse....

week later....

week later...

after months and months it will either eat or be dead and no more troubles....

really..it should eat .......
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Look at my other response. Try cutting the mouse to get the blood small. Try snake sausages, live if normally fed frozen, or prepped mice. There is even a spray you can buy that makes a mouse smell more tempting. Good luck

1. Figure out is it size or color, as someone else mentioned.
2. If fuzz, brain a mouse pinky on pinky rats, if he likes
them, then try F/T for your convienence.
3. if size, feed a pinky, and as he is finishing hold a dead
hopper or small mouse in front of him. Most snakes finish
head up, and just keep going. Old Old trick to chance snakes
from 1 feed item to another. You can even try to wiggle the
bigger second feed once he has a good hold so he constricts
it. We did this a lot to get old WC stuff off birds to
rodents back in the early 1970's.
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