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I've had a few snakes decide food just wasn't for them this year, but all three corns seem back on track. Since it's a frustrating endeavor that we all go through, I figured I'd share my success stories and maybe they will help someone else down the road. Two were young sunrise adults, which I got from VMS. Sean feeds a lot of live, and both of these have been iffy with thawed since I got them. Sure enough, a live adult mouse was taken by both, but to my surprise, both have taken their f/t offerings since. The third was a different case. I moved a holdback yearling who had been a great eater to a new rack. She went on a complete fast, though seemed interested in food and bit me a few times. I even got her to strike and coil by dangling mice, but she would always have let them go when I would check. Last night, I tried again, She was nosing the mouse, but wouldn't commit. An hour later it was still in there. So thinking it might be a hair aversion, I tried a thawed rat pink. She was so wild with feeding response (it had been 5 weeks since she'd taken a meal), I couldn't get the crawler mouse out. I just let her chomp on the rat pink and decided I'd get it later. When I checked, both food items were gone. A bigger meal than she needed, but she'll hold it down. Babies have to figure out what food is. In the case of established feeders, sometimes they just don't seem to recognize food is food anymore. I hate feeding live, and strongly prefer mice over rats for f/t, but it's never a bad idea to try them. Often, once you can get them to eat, it's like they never had a problem afterwards.
