Blizzard Pair & Lavender

[Roy Munson]

My '05 Serpenco Blizzards were likely clutchmates. At any rate, the male was 4.1g at delivery and the female was 5.1g. Both will only eat live mice. The male is growing very slowly, and he weighed in at a paltry 19.9g today. The female is a monster, and she weighed 62.5g today. That's a pretty significant difference. Goes to show that not all corns respond to Uncle Roy's Miracle Snake Growth Formula. Thankfully, the male is the slow grower of the pair.

The '05 Lavender het Amel Mot female, freshly shed in these pics, is a medium growth juvenile. She weighed 5.5g at delivery, and she's now at about 32g. She has her own feeding issue. She will not move up to fuzzies. Put her in with a small f/t fuzzy, and she completely ignores it. Swap it out for two or three large f/t pinks, and she'll scoop 'em right up. :shrugs:

Set 1:

 

[Roy Munson]

...and set 2:

 

[Drizzt80]

She will not move up to fuzzies. Put her in with a small f/t fuzzy, and she completely ignores it. Swap it out for two or three large f/t pinks, and she'll scoop 'em right up. :shrugs:

I'm sure you're smart and ingenious enough to have tried it, but just have to ask anyway . . . have you tried putting in a smaller/medium f/t pinky and a small/med f/t fuzzy? I have had success switching live feeders to f/t by putting in one of each . . . the 'feeding frenzy' seems to keep them going from that live to f/t meal . . . just an idea if you haven't tried it.

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[Roy Munson]

I'm sure you're smart and ingenious enough to have tried it, but just have to ask anyway . . . have you tried putting in a smaller/medium f/t pinky and a small/med f/t fuzzy? I have had success switching live feeders to f/t by putting in one of each . . . the 'feeding frenzy' seems to keep them going from that live to f/t meal . . . just an idea if you haven't tried it.

D80

What's funny is that I don't have to be smart or ingenious-- YOU've given me this advice before.

I tried some combos as you suggested with the female blizzard a few months ago, but they didn't work. I have to admit that I gave up kind of easy. It's time to dig out the D80 trick book and give it another try. I'll try a small pinky/small fuzzy combo with the lavender too, and see what happens.

Thanks again!

 

[Drizzt80]

What's funny is that I don't have to be smart or ingenious-- YOU've given me this advice before.

I tried some combos as you suggested with the female blizzard a few months ago, but they didn't work. I have to admit that I gave up kind of easy. It's time to dig out the D80 trick book and give it another try. I'll try a small pinky/small fuzzy combo with the lavender too, and see what happens.

Thanks again!

:bang:
Okay, that is just way too funny! Can you tell the old memory bank isn't working like it used to? It could have something to do with the fact that I've been trying to get 25 hours out of a 24 hour day!

. . . um, glad I could be of service! :crazy02:

D80

 

[princess]

I wanna know who I have to sleep with around here to get some snakes like that in my collection!

Once again Dean...WOW -those Lavs are so soft and pretty and you could even convert a non blizzard liker like me with those!

 

[Jynx]

:nope: Princess... All I will say is that's just too easy to comment on... :sidestep:

Nice as always Dean. I love the color tone on the lav.

 

[Roy Munson]

I wanna know who I have to sleep with around here to get some snakes like that in my collection!

Once again Dean...WOW -those Lavs are so soft and pretty and you could even convert a non blizzard liker like me with those!

Thanks for the comments princess. I got these from Rich Z., and I assure you that the transaction was purely financial.

 

[Kvlt]

haha...beautiful snakes, thats crazy that a clutchmate will weigh 3 times as much!!

 

[Roy Munson]

haha...beautiful snakes, thats crazy that a clutchmate will weigh 3 times as much!!

Thanks. Well, she's never regurged, refused, or for any reason missed a meal. Can't say the same for the male. :awcrap:

 

[Roy Munson]

. . . have you tried putting in a smaller/medium f/t pinky and a small/med f/t fuzzy? I have had success switching live feeders to f/t by putting in one of each . . . the 'feeding frenzy' seems to keep them going from that live to f/t meal . . . just an idea if you haven't tried it.

D80

I got the male blizzard to eat a large f/t pink tonight. Jen C. inspired me to try harder to convert him in the "Live Mice" thread. It was his feeding day, and I forgot to pick him up a live pink at the pet store, so I tried something else. I crammed him and the pink into the smallest container that would humanely hold him, and left him in a dark closet for about 45 minutes with no peeking. Well, I peeked in the end, and found Bill with a nice lump in him. But he's gone on and off f/t before, so I've won tonight's battle, but we'll see about the war.

 

[jzal8]

congrats dean. They are great looking blizzards. Perhaps you will have one the war this time. The last 3 months i have struggled with 2 corns and regurgitation. Whenever I try to feed them a mouse that is appropriate for a corn their size they cant keep it down. However the next feeding, 10-14 days later, I feed them a mouse one size smaller and they do fine. But try to move up again and there are problems. So I've ordered nutribac and I'm picking up a box of razors to start slitting them. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[Roy Munson]

congrats dean. They are great looking blizzards. Perhaps you will have one the war this time. The last 3 months i have struggled with 2 corns and regurgitation. Whenever I try to feed them a mouse that is appropriate for a corn their size they cant keep it down. However the next feeding, 10-14 days later, I feed them a mouse one size smaller and they do fine. But try to move up again and there are problems. So I've ordered nutribac and I'm picking up a box of razors to start slitting them. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks. I feel it's a turning point with the little guy. Maybe he's had a two-month upset stomach. :shrugs:

Good luck with your two. What morph(s) are they?

And you stay classy, jzal8... :grin01:

 

[Drizzt80]

Roy, good to hear! Congrats.

Jzal, I had a similar experience. A little lava girl I have regurged a larger pink meal two times in a row, and had me worried. Gave her a smaller one that she kept down, but then the next meal a larger one again, and cut slits in her back (as was suggested in threads by Hurley), and no regurges since. I would recommended getting an old pair of scissors for the task. Would probably be easier to use than razor blades. I also cut the slits after thawing.

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