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Feeding babies

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JennyJ

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I bought frozen pinkies from a local pet store for $2 each. I tried to feed my baby and it grabbed the head 3 times and gave up. The pinky was way too big. I tried cutting up a few pieces and left them over night with no luck. I didn't know there would be so much difference in size. I was so worried that it wouldn't eat. I went to Petsmart the next day and was so relieved to find their pinkies are tiny, 6 in a pack at 11 grams total. Of course I opened it to check the size.
Last night my baby ate one with no problem. I want to buy online because it's cheaper but 50 small pinkies might be more than I need for one snake. My baby was 5g before the feed, about 11 inches.

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Yeah I tried the buying online thing and I can't make it work for 1 snake. It's cheaper to just buy them at the local pet stores. There are 3 pet shops within a mile of me and all of them sell frozen rats and mice, and the only way I could buy online and actually save money, I'd have to buy about a hundred. A Hundred mice would last 3 years for 1 snake. I don't keep food for myself frozen that long and I'm not feeding my pets stuff like that either.
 
Yeah, I bought 50 day old pinks for my 6g little worm and wound up giving three at a time towards the end of the bag just to get rid of them. Of course, I wasn't planning to get more snakes at the time...I had to get more later! XD
 
They keep very well. I'd go ahead and buy the 50. You might ask the seller if they can send a more mixed bag, if possible. Some sellers have mice that are less uniform. You're probably going to get a second snake within the next year anyway!! :)
 
Nanci said:
They keep very well. I'd go ahead and buy the 50. You might ask the seller if they can send a more mixed bag, if possible. Some sellers have mice that are less uniform. You're probably going to get a second snake within the next year anyway!! :)
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Truer words were never spoken. Especially about getting the second snake within the year. Guilty of that here for sure!
 
The only person on this forum who has any restraint at all, as far as I am aware is Karl. I bought my first in February, am up to 6 and have 3 hatchlings prepaid. Axis could oversee group therapy, but I see that degenerating into a discussion on how to fit in more and alter feed days to always have someone available to play with.
 
Lol, it is kinda funny reading the replie, just because I can relate to so many of them!
I started out in snakes 29 years ago when my grandfather, a pilot, brought back a European grass snake for my 7th birthday. I stuck with snakes for 10 years until I "made friends" with a new student at our school who had pythons. He and I disagreed on husbandry (redicilous in retrospect, considering I had colubrids and he had pythons, but back then there wasn't any internet). In any case, after graduation I gave my snakes away and went off to college.
When I married my husband 7 years later, I discovered he was snake-phobic, so I just accepted that snakes wouldn't be part of my life anymore. However, after I became disabled and started spending more and more time at home, I mentioned to him that I missed having a pet snake. Later that year he bought me a snow corn for my birthday.....now I have 21 snakes.....LOLZ
~Beau
 
I'm sure I'll have another one soon, if I don't get a gecko first. I wasn't really interested in snakes until recently. I started watching Prehistoric Pets and Snakebytes on YouTube. Then I had to have one or five. :)

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BeauBoi said:
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When I married my husband 7 years later, I discovered he was snake-phobic, so I just accepted that snakes wouldn't be part of my life anymore. However, after I became disabled and started spending more and more time at home, I mentioned to him that I missed having a pet snake. Later that year he bought me a snow corn for my birthday.....now I have 21 snakes.....LOLZ
~Beau
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Have to say, your husband is a SAINT!

I also have a wife who's more than tolerant of my proclivity towards colubrids. She's had to deal with me caring for 3 snakes the past 8 years (4 since last July), not to mention a variety of other reptiles, many of which got loose when I was careless, and she even changed their water for me when I was away on business trips in the past (she never has gotten to the point of actually TOUCHING one of them, no matter what approach I try). Maybe we should start a thread dedicated towards some of our long-suffering spouses (spice?). When my doll accidentally opened a container of frozen rat pups one morning while she was digging in the freezer for another item, it was the first time I heard an authentic scream from her since the time I left the toilet seat up in the middle of the night (NEVER did THAT more than ONCE!)! One of the neighbors called 911, and I was soon told by one of the responding officers that her scream was described by the emergency operator as "blood-curdling!"

Interesting how these threads evolve. (Or is the correct word, mutate?) But it's all good! :crazy02:
 
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