red sided baby

[zooplan]

Congrats Don,

success is much sweeter when you have a hard turn to it.
Hope that we can see her babies in a few years.

BTW: Is it a mice oder a rats leg in her mouth?

[ssssnakeluvr]

I hope she stays pink too!! That is a rat pup leg she is eating. I have had no luck getting mice to breed, but the rats have been doing good. I cut the legs of the frozen rat pups and feed them to the smaller snakes until they are big enough for whole rat pups.

[zooplan]

I usually start with smelt tails for my hatchlings, and turm them to mice pinkies later. Do you feed rodents only from the beginning?

[ssssnakeluvr]

I feed guppies, frozen fish, worms, and rodent parts. worms are great for scenting rodents for some snakes...I have had a few that are picky about it when fish scented but pounce on worms, so I rub the parts on worms to scent them and the pounce on them then.