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RE: Snake Eater - Problem feeder

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Posted by: tbrophy at Tue May 20 14:27:21 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tbrophy ]  
   

I believe getula babies are hard-wired to eat what they most often encounter for their first meals. And they encounter lots more small frogs than they encounter baby mice! I have a baby indigo that wanted no part of mice, quail, goldfish, frozen/thawed fish, etc., etc. I tried every type of animal protein I could find, but no go. Would not even eat road-killed toad, and indigos love toads. Finally, I threw in a baby cornsnake (DOR) and the vault was open. It inhaled that cornsnake with gusto. Now it eats mice and quail with no issue. I think that some baby snakes are sometimes hard-wired to begin life eating cold-blooded prey. Simply because that is what they encounter much more frequently.


   

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