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Baby corn not eating should I worry so much yet?

Probably one of the most common lizards found in NA. Usually just a couple dollars each at any pet store or chain. Baby corns often prefer the smell of them to pinkies and will sometimes start feeding on pinks after they have had an anole. Make sure to get a small one so your snake has an easier time with the whole process.
 
Okay, so you need to try something different. I would try these three things. Thaw the pink in hot tap water. It should only take a couple minutes, not 20 minutes. Then mix a generous amount of Ivory Liquid dish soap, original scent, in the water. Rinse it with hot water, but leave a little soap residue. OR boil water, remove from heat, drop the pink in, leave it a minute, feed when white and rubbery, and still hot. Or try the smallest live pink you can find. For the first two methods, removing the snake's water for two days prior to feeding, then feeding the item nice and wet, may encourage feeding. Be sure to replace the water after feeding no matter what. I would NOT try more often than every four days or you are conditioning the baby to refuse.
 
That is bad advice, Clickslither! I'm sorry, but that is just not a good idea. Corn2012, do not feed an anole! You are pretty much guaranteeing you will give your snake parasites. Even doing it once. I have a microscope, I've tested for myself. Green anoles always have had nematode eggs in their feces. If you want an anole to put in the freezer to scent with later, maybe, but I wouldn't even go down that road for a snake that had been feeding. Live pink, sure -anole, absolutely not.
 
Ok, sorry about the anole advice. It's just something that I have read about people doing, I've just not seen anything about them getting corns sick on a consistent basis or I wouldn't have recommended it. You might want to try scenting with it then.
 
Didn't mean to jump on you, just that could be bad news. Anoles are always wild caught, and always kept in cramped conditions by mass collectors and then the wholesalers. This makes them be in contact with more fecal matter than natural, and living in those conditions, they tend to all have worms. I wouldn't even trust an anole I wild collected, but the odds of a pet store anole being clean is not odds you'd wanna take! And to try to make a difference, I make it a point not to buy anything from people who sell mass collected reptiles.
 
Anole scenting has NEVER worked for me. I've tried anole shed, anole tail tip in the pink's mouth, frozen baby anole, anole biting the pink, anole trampling the pink- nothing. It's not worth catching and annoying a lizard, for me, and I have them right out in my yard.
 
Thank you all for your support. I'll be trying again Thursday night, with Ivory dish soap. Other than that I guess I'll be looking for a breeder for live pinkies. I worry with feeding her live, that she'll always want her food alive all the time.
I talked to a reptile guy from the pet store yesterday, he was asking me about my viv set up, heating, etc. He told me to try using the overhead light as a basking light again and maybe she prefers that over the under tank heating pad. He also suggested to take her water away two days before feeding. She has been drinking everyday, and with that gone she may eat to get water from the soaked pinkie.
 
Still nothing!
Last night I thawed pinkie, then used Ivory soap. She was very interested at first, but turned away. Left her in container over night but she still didn't eat. I'm going to contact pet store to find breaders for pinkies. We'll try live in a few days.
She's still active, drinking water.
 
how big is her cage? I've read some babies like small enclosures to feel more secure. when I had a clutch i had some non feeders. had them all set up in shoe box size containers with newspaper / paper towels an very small hides. i fed them in their little 'houses' an left them alone. eventually some of the non feeders started to eat.
 
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