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Old 10-28-2007, 03:41 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Success!!!!! :-)

life isn't linear - it's true
one of mine decided he didn't like rodent after all
I'll keep my fingers crossed that yours decides it's his favourite food
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Old 10-28-2007, 08:18 AM   #12 (permalink)
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not so far and you may tell about mating
LOL Udo... the thought has been flittering around my brain, but you know, if they did breed I'd be a nervous wreck raising babies and then I'd be so attached, I would have a terrible time trusting anyone to adopt them!! I can see it now--

"Hello, yes, I do have some Pugets for adoption. Please send me a resume, a blood sample, a reference from your vet, your mother, your great Aunt Grace, your proctologist, and your third grade art teacher. Also, I need to do a home visit, inspect your premises, review your tax returns from the past 10 years, run your liscence plate, get a drug test, x rays, and I need to you recite the third act of Othello..."

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Old 10-28-2007, 08:21 AM   #13 (permalink)
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This is too cute too-- who has that lazy snake we were talkng about a couple of weeks ago? So Mordecai did not eat yesterday as he is getting ready to shed. This morning he was curled up on a branch, and just for curiosity, I held out a minnow to him. He raised his head, flicked that tongue, and oh so nicely took it from me without moving. He ended up eating two minnows and a large guppy that way-- with never having to budge off his branch!!!! LOL Does he have me well trained or what?? Thank goodness snakes don't have fingers or he'd have been snapping them at me-- "More, wench, and with haste!"

LOL!!!!
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Old 10-28-2007, 04:04 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Re: Success!!!!! :-)

i have one baby corn snake that wont eat the pinkie i gave it,,,any ideas? i put two feeder goldfish in the water bowl cause there tiny,,,,but right now in my house all i have it gold fish,pinkies and crickets,,,thats what i have to work with untill this weekend comming up, i did just get him today but the breeder i got him from said he has not eaten in the last two weeks
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now's not a good time to get him to eat
give him a chance to settle in first
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Old 10-28-2007, 04:39 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Corn snakes eat fish?
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Old 10-28-2007, 05:05 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Corn snakes eat fish?
No. Some people with problem feeders have reported success with tuna-scenting pinks, but it's never worked for me.

Congrats on the pinky progress. My new black necked pair just started taking (half) pinks too.
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Old 10-28-2007, 05:19 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Thanks Dean! And congrats on your black necks too!!!

I keep meaning to ask-- when the garters are grown, what is the normal size mouse to feed them?? Do they get big enough to eat adult mice?

And as far as other fish: guppies, minnows... what about like, danios or mollies?
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Old 10-28-2007, 05:23 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Here is a pic showing the size difference in the babies. I've been waiting to catch them cuddling so I could get pics.



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