And then there's a few of my concinnus babies. The last litter of 7 born huge. Those little spoiled brats won't eat anything else! To stretch the pinkies I have to chop them up frozen, let the blood flow and soak some pieces of night crawlers in there. Even then, some aren't fooled and will only eat the pinky parts.

Never before have I seen such picky concinnus. Won't touch fish, won't touch worms, won't touch anything but pinkies.

Spoiled brats!

They are of different genes than the rest of my babies. I know it's not a controlled study or anything like that, but I swear to you, there must be a genetic connection to food preferences, not just a localized one based on available food like I thought.

That's why regardless of species, some are harder to get eating certain foods, than others are. I think it's in their genes in some cases. I mean, spoiled meat smells like perfume and perhaps even smells appetizing to a dog but not to us. Know what I mean? Still, generally speaking, it shouldn't be hard at all to get checkereds to eat pinkies even if they don't take them unscented at first.