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BIG FEEDING PROB.

HOW DO I FEED HIM!!!!

  • GIVE ANOLE

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • FORCE FEED

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • WAIT

    Votes: 3 33.3%

  • ANY OTHER IDEA, E-MAIL ME ([email protected]

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Total voters
    9
  • Poll closed .
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Skyrocketer26

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OKAY, I HAVE A HATCHLING CORNSNAKE AND IT HAS NOT EATEN, IT HAS BEEN ABOUT A MONTH. :( I REALLY NEED SOME IDEAS, PLEASE, I LIKE HIM A LOT AND THE ONLY OTHER ONES ARE SNOWS, AND I DON'T WANT TO TURN HIM IN FOR ANOTHER. HE DRINKS HIS WATER AND HE PO*PS, BUT HE WON'T EAT, PLEASE HELP ME OUT ON THIS GUYS.
 
anoles

I had a baby that would NEVER eat anything, not even look at it, but when I offered it lizards, it ate them immediately
 
I'm sorry, but before I would recommend you do anything at all, I would want to know what you have done to address the issue. Some information that would be helpful would include:

food items tried
methods of presentation tried
intervals between attempts
temperatures for the habitat
proximity to light, heat, sound, or vibration sources
and about a 1000 other things . . .

The point is that a cornsnake hatchling can go off its feed for almost any reason, and you haven't given us enough information about your setup to help you out. You may very well need to go to anoles, but if that is not the real problem, you may just be teaching your snake to eat something that it would not otherwise have demanded, and THEN you'll just have another layer of mess with which to deal. :eek:

So, fill in the blanks for us a bit, and we'll all do our best to help you out with your problem feeder.
 
INFO

OKAY, I HAVE TRIED PINKEYS, POKING A PINKEY SO THE BLOOD EXITES THE SNAKE, I HAVE TRIED CRICKETS, (USING THEM AS OF RIGHT NOW) MIGHT TRY ANOLE SOON (IF SUGUSTED) NOT A WHOLE NOT, THAT IS WHY I AM COMING TO YOU GUYS, BECAUSE SOME OF THE PEOPLE AT THE PET STORE AREN'T THE BRIGHTEST LIGHTS IN SHED, (IS THAT HOW IT GOES) AND SO I AM THE PERSON WHO NEEDS THE IDEAS, P.S. THE CRICKETS HAVE REALLY MADE MY SNAKE SPICE UP A LOT, HE IS REALLY MOVING AROUND IN HIS CAGE, IS THAT EXITMENT OR IS HE SCARED?? P.S. 2. I FEED HIM IN A SHOEBOX AND LEAVE HGIM THERE WITH A PINKEY FOR ABOUT 20 MIN. IT IS HOW I NORMALLY TRY TO FEED HIM, PLEASE HELP ME OUT!! :(
 
feeding

hi sr26



i would say that your snake is not so much excited by the crickets, more stressed, crickets bite and as they are not a natural feed item for corns it sounds to me like your corn is being pestered by the crickets.



if you have live pinkies? try one,if not place a pinky in a box with a couple of anoles so as to scent it and try that,if all that fails try an anole, but be sure to leave plenty of time between attempts (min 4/5 days) remember touch the snake as little as pos and use tweezers on the food item so as not to scent it with your scent.




GOOD LUCK.....................STEVE
 
First of all, GET RID OF THE CRICKETS! Second, have you tried leaving a pinky in his cage overnight? That would the first thing I would try.
 
yep carol, tried that

i tried that, didn't work, he is just crawling around the darn thing tryin' to find a way out, ALL NIGHT LONG HE DOES THAT!!!!!! next??
 
It sounds to me that it is reacting to stress. Some get stressed by a new envoirnment easier than others. I suggest leaving him alone for three days (no handling). Then try leaving an anole scented pinky in his cage overnight. And with these shy corns, PRESENTATION is the key. DO NOT pull your corn out of its hide and put it right in front of the pinky. Just quietly place it as far as you can from your corn, cover his cage and don't even peek on him until morning. You want your corn to find it when it is feeling comfortable enough to wander his cage by his own will. Baby corns don't know the difference between a caring owner and a big snake eating monster, so if you keep checking on him he is not going to feel comfortable enough to slow himself down by eating. If the scented pink doesn't work, I'd try the same method with a fresh anole head. The best thing to do in these situations is to handle and peek on them as little as possible.
Good Luck!
 
In addition to that which has been written, I would also suggest, that if the anole scented pinky does not work, try pieces of anole skin on the pink itself. Sometimes the scent just needs to be stronger to get a reaction.

I freeze an anole, then use tweezers to pull off some of the skin (the dewlap usually comes off below the lower jaw fairly easily). Then, I stick that skin to the pinky and present it to the snake.

Your snake may want a frozen/thawed pinky with a little (or a lot) of anole skin on it. It may want a live pinky with anole skin. It may want a brained pinky, wrapped in anole skin, left alone with it in a deli cup, ina dark cabinet over night. You'll just have to keep playing with it until you strike the right combination.

Wait 4-5 days between feeding attempts to make sure that you are not overly stressing the animal, and go from one step to another in incremental fashion. There is no reason to teach your snake to expect a food item that is a pain in the neck to prepare if a less complicated offering would have been accepted.

Good luck!
 
darin

there is only one problem with using skin from an anole and that is that anoles are 6.00 a lizard, so i would lose a lot of money really fast:(
 
Hey, believe me, I understand completely. But I have had some corns that, if they did not get started out on anoles and then get weaned on to pinkies in the manner I previously described, would have died . . .no if's, and's, or but's about it!

That is the price sometimes of being a pet owner. You have taken on the responsibility of making sure that your animal is getting everything it needs to survive and flourish. This is exactly the kind of unforseen ocst that has to be taken into account BEFORE an animal is purchased.

I'm not saying that you absolutely have an animal that MUST be fed anole scented pinks (that would be stupid for me to do, given that I've had no real contact with your animal), but given my experience, it something that you really need to consider.
 
Bear in mind too, one alone can scent a lot of pinks. I like to slice a frozen anole cross-wise with the belly so you get a perfect circle of skin for the pinky to wear as a necklace so the stubborn feeder doesn't push the skin of the pinky while investigating it. Or a small peice of skin shoved in the pinky's mouth works well to. As long as you keep it frozen you can reuse an anole lots of times. They are easier to cut up when they are frozen as well. Geez some of my family members would be so disgusted with me if they read this. LOL, you do what you got to do. I think anoles are cute but I don't like anoles as much as I dislike dead snakes. So there you have it.;)
 
hey, one more thing

thanx for the info, one more thing, do you think it would be safe to put my baby corn in with a live pinkey, cause' what if the pinkey bit him or something, he can't really defend himself yet, can he???:confused:
 
Live pinkys are OK, and I usually will try live pinkies before anoles. (I thought you had tried that) But in your case, 4 weeks with out eating can be pretty serious for a hatchling. I would assume your baby is probably pretty turned off to pinkies right now and I would try the anole to be on the safe side. It is a tough call to make either way, it is hard when it gets "to the last minute".
 
Re: hey, one more thing

Skyrocketer26 said:
thanx for the info, one more thing, do you think it would be safe to put my baby corn in with a live pinkey, cause' what if the pinkey bit him or something, he can't really defend himself yet, can he???:confused:
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Live pinkies are harmless...no teeth yet, and just sort of lay around and wiggle. It's once you get to bigger mice with teeth that live becomes dangerous.
 
RE: thanx

okay, thanks for telling me, although i have just turned my snake in for the employees to try to feed it and if they don't i get to buy another for free:D
 
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