Tonight, I was giving my young concinnus' a few guppies. One of the smallest snakes wasn't interested in taking a full fish from me but seemed interested in hanging around while I fed some of the others.
It then occurred to me that the guppy may be too big for the snake. Not that it is but the small snake may not want to deal with a whole fish.
Thinking quickly I cut part of a tail off and offered it. The little scrub smelled it then grabbed it and ate it. This success gave me an idea so I chopped up a few guppies.
All the non-whole guppy eaters took pieces and had a good meal.
Now, it's one of two things or a combination of the two that helped these snakes.
1- Smaller pieces of food.
2- Intense smell(blood, guts, etc.)
I'm just glad to find yet another avenue to help these slow eaters.
Any thoughts about this observation?