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My hatchling is STILL not eating.. Bad breeder?

Shoot I remember using tuna water! I would put the pinkie in it. Worked for me. You'll try anything to get them to eat!
Pray ya'lls little ones eat soon!
 
Thanks for the advice. :)

Unfortunately no Anoles of any kind here, the closest thing I could get without much trouble is probably a Gecko. As for the tuna water, I've tried it a couple of times and no reaction at all.. Oh well. :(
 
Foxide said:
Thanks for the advice. :)

Unfortunately no Anoles of any kind here, the closest thing I could get without much trouble is probably a Gecko.
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If you can, catch a real small gecko and let it crawl over the pinkie, or rub some shed gecko skin on it. Or just see if it will eat the gecko ;)

Like some others have said some babies just dont eat, or stop eating, and nothing you can do will change that.
 
man, im having the exact same problem with my baby.
4 weeks old and has not eaten yet.
tried braining and chicken broth but no luck...
i might have to try live pinky...
 
Hope you can find some. No where has any around me so I have to wait and keep trying f/t until my gerbils have their pups. It'll be longer before the mice have any pups I just got a new female and I only have the one female.
 
Today was going to be the last attempt but unfortunately Caddie passed away this morning. I tried as much as I could but I think he just wasn't meant to make it. Thanks for everything guys, I appreciate it. :(
 
This has been an emotional week for me.
It was upsetting to put a live pinkie in with Caddie. When Caddie didn't eat the live pinkie I spent 4 days feeding it every 1.5 hours because I didn't want it to starve, it died the day before yesterday. And now I've lost Caddie. :(
 
BNR34RB26DETT said:
how many days did caddie actually survive for?
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We got him at a month old and he would have been here for 6 weeks on Wednesday. I'm not entirely convinced that he was eating regularly when we got him, though. Especially since I've now found out that he was bred and possibly cared for by the "breeder's" 9 year old..
 
Oh boy :( I would not allow a 9 year old breed anything! Not even for 4H which, thank goodness, does not do snakes. Normally I would not let a snake leave me that is not eating but I did trade some hatchlings still learning about food to a guy with lots of snake experience. That is the only time I would even think of letting a snake leave without a few good meals in them.
 
I've been looking through some pictures I took when I'd just gotten him and it seems to me like he was already fragile and thin when I got him, especially around the neck area.

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I don't know if I'm just imagining things or not, but he seemed a lot smaller than some other babies I've seen.

I'm going to get another corn within the next week or so. I can't replace Caddie, but it seems I can't be happy without at least one snake in my life anymore.
 
Those look like my hatchlings. Very thin in the neck area but widen at the body. Was he skinny like that all of this length?
 
He does look thin in those pictures but I can't see the whole body so not sure. Corn snakes have skinny necks and they get wider as you go down the length of their body and then taper off again towards the tail. Some have thinner necks than others. So if your little guy was that thin all the way down then there was def wrong with him. Hope you can find another baby from a better breeder. It really does make me mad when children breed animals. They have no idea what they are doing.
 
A little update on the breeder I got Caddie from, they are in the process of being shut down for breeding without a permit by Nature Conservation as permit laws for wild/exotic animals are strict here. Someone who is a hobby corn breeder and also happens to work for Nature Conservation has also confirmed that their snakes are generally unhealthy and non-feeding.
 
You could try tease feeding!
Heres how you do it
1. hold your snake 3 inches away from its head, loose enogh that it won't sufficate but tight enough that it can't squirm away.
2.Use stertile tweezers to "tease" the snake with your Mouse.
3. It should Latch on. :)
 
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