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 #2081184

 WAHOO!! Sucess!!!

 #2081196

 WAHOO!! Sucess!!!

Glad that we could help. I don’t really know why washing them helps but for some it does!!! Now that the little guy has eaten he has a much better chance!!! You may have to wash the pink for several more feedings before he will eat normally, but it is worth it!!!
OX

 #2081262

 Nice! I’ll Put That One in My Playbook . . .

I trust you washed all the soap off . . .

As for me, I just fed eight of my nine adult snakes and cleaned out the two mouse breeding tanks, and I’m feeling my age...

I still have four hatchlings and one on consignment at the local fish shop (I fed the ninth adult, their older sibling, in a demo to sell one hatchling a week ago); the shop had one die, and I had two that died mysteriously here as well . . . They were all eating from the get-go except the one little one who’s catching up with them fast after having shedding problems . . .

I’m debating whether to even brumate Momma and Poppa Corn this winter because I need to address other stuff besides raising baby corns . . . It’s certainly been worthwhile from a satisfaction POV, of course, and if I sell the remaining hatchlings I’ll have a little credit at the shop for fish supplies and stuff . . .

I will put my big bull in the cooling closet, however, and probably the smaller Great Basin gopher. I’m thinking of crossing the bull with a local gopher (easy to obtain a male) and getting some practice with those just for the heck of it . . .

Really, what I probably want is another hypo or het-for-hypo adult male corn (or a female to breed back to Poppa) so I could go for some "genetic strengthening" of a reasonable line of hypos . . . I see on another thread one of the guys who was hassling me remembered his manners and started asking questions about what happens in crossing closely related snakes (They mostly gave you the straight, if simplified dope on that one, there kiddo, but the truth is that crossing closely related animals will increase the changes of obtaining desirable traits--which is why it’s done--but also the undesirable ones. Professional dog breeders use such tactics sparingly--knowing what they’re doing--and even now, some breeds, such as German Shepherds have lines that have suffered from too much inbreeding. There are also some folks here in Utah--none of ’em my relatives--who’ve had the same problem).

Just thinking out loud . . .

Right now, though, I’m out of pinkies, which means I’ll have to buy a few f/t for the hatchlings . . . Raising mice probably pays for itself, but only just barely . . . I buy cheapo hamster/gerbil food at Wally World and mix it with $2.00 a pound "mouse biscuits" bought locally . . . The mouse biscuits (which are supposed to be nutritionally balanced) are usually the last things to get eaten . . . I also buy the big bales of shavings, either aspen or pine (mice only) at Petco or Wally . . .

 #2081283

 WAHOO!! Sucess!!!

 #2081379

 WAHOO!! Sucess!!!