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Originally Posted by Msterry
Jaxom you are unreal. Thank heaven these lil one have you. How you can do 22 babys + is beyond me.
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Beyong me at times, too.
Next year, I'm going to set a limit, like 15 or something. Although, after stressing out a couple of times over it, I've become used to having this many and the three or four hours it takes to feed them just whizzes by....
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Is'nt quartering aaa bit lets say messy? Don't you lose a lot that way?
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It's really not that bad. I feed on a towel on my lap, and all that I tend to lose are little bits of internal organs. If you get the pieces down quickly enough, they keep together. Overall, I'd say the snakes are getting 90% of the pinkie.
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Is Beldar still eating on his own? I wonder how Ziva is doing too.
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Unfortunately, Beldar regurged his last meal and passed away a day later. I've come to the conclusion, and the breeder agrees, that doming is indicative of some incomplete development, and anything beyond very minor doming should be culled. Trying to save them is, ultimately, heartbreaking. Prymaat and Beldar's deaths were very hard to take, and I won't risk working with domed hatchlings in the future.
Ziva, on the other hand, seems to have recovered from her brush with euthanasia just fine. There is no sign of the previous kink, and, if she would just eat, I'd be jumping for joy. As it is, I managed to find an anole at the pet store today and tried rubbing this evening's pinks all over his body, much to his consternation. And to no avail, as the hatchlings greeted the anole-rubbed food with a collective, "YAWN". I was hoping to avoid sacrificing the little green guy, but that's the next step. I bought enough crickets to feed him for a couple of days, and then I will put him down just before the next feeding attempt. If the snakes still don't eat the scented pinks, they will receive a stern talking to about how hard I work to put food on their table, and how they seem to feel no shame about wasting perfectly good lizard guts. I'm sure they will afford me the same attention I paid my parents when they gave the same lecture to me.