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First Time Feeding New Amel

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SnBMeg

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I fed Auryn for the first time last night, and it went spectacularly! :D

I was all set to have to spend 2-3 minutes or more coaxing her to grab the pinky, but within--literally--5 seconds she caught on and...caught on. All continued smoothly from there.

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Latched on, but she kept trying to back away with it, so I spread a hand towel over half the container, and then she relaxed and continued.

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If you look just to the left of her head, you can make out the last glimpse of little pinky feets and tail.

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All in! And down it goes.

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All done!

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Once she was finished I put her favorite hide into the container with her, and when she recognized it she crawled right in. (Better lighting here in a different room and with the towel off.)

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And finally back in her tank (peeking out of the hide).

One thing I found, though, is that I definitely need a better scale! The one I have is a dinky little spring-op, which just can't cut it when it comes to itty-bitty snakes or their food. But I should be able to take care of that this week.

What an exhilarating relief though! My first snake feeding experience went off without a hitch. :)
 
congrats on it going well :) she is very pretty :) just so you know.. most good eaters dont have to be coaxed, just drop it in and they do what they do best :)
 
Well, I'm definitely a "hope for the best, but prepare for the worst" kind of person. I spent a fair amount of time surfing around YouTube looking at corn snake videos--hoping to see more varied things than just eating, but those are by far the majority :rolleyes:--and many that I saw of young snakes had them needing to be coaxed for a couple of minutes, so I knew that that was a possibility. But I was staying optimistic about how Auryn would do.

I just hope now that she'll continue to be such a good eater. :)
 
Well done Meg! lol

She's a GORGEOUS little amel! It must be said!

My little ones all eat in front of me now! lol
 
PS: I love how you can see her little head peeking over the dish in the last pic! lol You just see two shining eyes! lol
 
Thanks Meg. ;)

I'm really looking forward to seeing her grow larger, and her colors firm up a bit. Always very exciting!

I'm hoping that as I continue to handle her, she'll get more used to me and won't mind me hovering over her feeding container.

I've got a chair set up off the corner of her cage (which is on my window seat), so it gives me a decent view of the opening of that hide--that shot was too cute to pass up!
 
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