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Striped Topaz SK SG Free
When I first started seeing this thread come up on the New Post Searches, I thought it was a joke, but after seeing the thread grow, I decided to take a look at it. After reading the thread, I decided that it was certainly worth a try. At this time of the year, I have a rack of non-feeders that I slowly watch starve themselves to death. I had a great subject group to test this new feeding technique.
I had 61 hatchlings from various clutches of various morphs. They had all been offered live, thawed, brained and lizard scented thawed. Many of them had been offered food over a dozen times. I didn’t have any Ivory Soap, which happens to be pure soap JOE, and a very good product. I did have some cheap Crystal White, lemon scented dish soap, so I counted my pinkies, and put them in a sudsy bowl of warm water and gave them some action with my fingers. I let them soak awhile and stirred them some more, and then rinsed them thoroughly. I patted them dry and was ready to go.
I already had the hatchlings set up pretty good to try this test. They were all in 6 inch clear short tubs with a 3 ounce portion cup for water and the lid for the portion cup is used as a table to offer food. The results I got were pretty consistent with what others have been reporting and quite astonishing if you ask me. 34 ate almost immediately and 27 refused. I also have a group of live only feeders. I fed most of them yesterday, but I had 8 that I did not feed. They will eat live every time I offered it to them, but they had refused thawed several times each. I offered all 8 washed thawed pinks and they all ate!
All this time we have been stinking up the pinks with everything we could imagine, when all this time, taking some scent away was what was needed. I am going to lizard scent the 27 that did not take the washed pinks and see if another miracle happens.
I had 61 hatchlings from various clutches of various morphs. They had all been offered live, thawed, brained and lizard scented thawed. Many of them had been offered food over a dozen times. I didn’t have any Ivory Soap, which happens to be pure soap JOE, and a very good product. I did have some cheap Crystal White, lemon scented dish soap, so I counted my pinkies, and put them in a sudsy bowl of warm water and gave them some action with my fingers. I let them soak awhile and stirred them some more, and then rinsed them thoroughly. I patted them dry and was ready to go.
I already had the hatchlings set up pretty good to try this test. They were all in 6 inch clear short tubs with a 3 ounce portion cup for water and the lid for the portion cup is used as a table to offer food. The results I got were pretty consistent with what others have been reporting and quite astonishing if you ask me. 34 ate almost immediately and 27 refused. I also have a group of live only feeders. I fed most of them yesterday, but I had 8 that I did not feed. They will eat live every time I offered it to them, but they had refused thawed several times each. I offered all 8 washed thawed pinks and they all ate!
All this time we have been stinking up the pinks with everything we could imagine, when all this time, taking some scent away was what was needed. I am going to lizard scent the 27 that did not take the washed pinks and see if another miracle happens.
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