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About feeder mice....

prpldrgn420

prpldrgn420

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Ok I have just found out that my corn really only likes to eat live mice. I don't have a problem with that but the problem i have is the pet store i have to go to the guy running it is a @#$. ok you full in the blank. He is very arrogant and i hate going in there. so my question is how long does it take a mouse to go from a pinkie to a fuzzy?

just to let you know- I went in and asked him for a pinkie and he brought me a small bow with a mouse in it. I was with my daughter and we got to the car and she wanted to see the pinkie so i opened up the box and there was a mouse about 1" long and had white hair all over it. I took it back in and told him i wanted a pinkie and he said that the one in the box was considered a pinkie and i told him i needed one that has NO hair on it and he turned around and said I should have told him that i needed a 1 day old pinkie. Am I wrong or is he a @#$.
 
He is an @#$. The definition of pinkie is not written in stone but but basically it describes a mouse with no hair, thus pink. A day old pinkie is around 2 or 3 grams. 3 or 4 day old pinkie might weigh 5 or 6 grams so there is a wide variation in there that still could be called a pinkie.

Keep trying to get your snake to eat dead mice first. He will eventually and that is much better for both you and the snake. Some baby snakes won't take dead and it takes a while to teach them but it is worth the effort. Give it live to keep him healthy but try feeding dead first.
 
I did try dead first. I tried to feed him the dead ones for a month. once a week. then i got on here and read up on what to do. so i tried the live ones cause i was getting worried. but i am going to place a dead one in his feeder tank and leave him in there over night and see what happens.

Oh yeah Elvis is a little over a year old. My next buy is a scale so i can weight him. He is healthy so i am not worried anymore about him not eating, one post that i read said that they can go a month without eating after you change their habitat. And he shed the same day i got him from the reptile show.

any advise is welcome on getting him to eat dead mice is appreciated!!!
 
Did you try moving him to a separate container for feeding? You could try that, covering the feeding container, adding a hide to the feeding container, scenting the food with chicken broth and a few other things I'm sure other people will be able to suggest.
 
I am curious about the live feeding as well. However, if he's a yearling still eating pinks, I would say not to worry too much about it. When they're that small, they can't go as long as an older/bigger snake without food.
 
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