I move the male to a new and quieter area but he is in pre-moult now so it will be at least another week before he will want to feed again. I am confident that he will turn out well. I have a three year old male annectens that started out about the same way. For the first year, he would not take anything but pinky mice. I moved him to a new location and that changed everything. Now, at three, he is not a huge male (nearly four feet) but he is a reliable feeder and is large enough and old enought to breed.

These Pacific's give me a goal for about 2016. My striped neonates are wild caught (probably before they ever got their first meal) so they are not mixed with nor het for anything. Pure F1 striped Pacific gophers. Every other purported striped phase Pacific that I have seen from any captive source has been het for just about everything if not hybridized at some point with annectens and who knows how far north the F-count is with some of them. I don't do hets, mixes, mutts or morphs other than naturally occurring (as in this case). Would ultimately like to produce a few boldly striped individuals someday...
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