Ideas for stubborn feeders

[11malibu]

I was watching a video on YouTube from snakebytes/BHB and they said about rubbing pinkies on a sardine or tuna. I guess corns like the smell although they don't eat fish. They also said about rubbing the pinkie in lizard gut. Just wondering if anyone had used these, I may use the tuna one today to get my baby corn to eat.

 

[Chip]

Yep, I've rubbed pinks on everything imaginable.

 

[11malibu]

Did you find any to work?

 

[Chip]

Sure. Nothing works on every baby, so it's often a matter of trying until something makes them eat. I'd say lizard, ivory soap, and pouring boiling water over the pinkie has worked best for me.

 

[11malibu]

Ivory soap?

 

[Chip]

Yep, the plain ol' 99.6% pure kind, just a dab.

 

[11malibu]

Never would have thought that, I can see tuna and that type of stuff working.

 

[DuxorW]

I've had success with soap (I didn't have ivory but used a clear fragrance free brand), quick dips in boiling water, and by using "reds" instead of pinks, which are basically freshly born mice a little bigger than a bean. I find that once a baby eats a few times with these methods they switch to unaltered pinks pretty quickly.

 

[11malibu]

Mine ate her first meal when I first got her, completely unaltered pinky. Now she doesn't want anything to do with them. She lost a gram haha, down to 10 grams. I'm not worried yet but I am gunna try tuna today.

 

[Chip]

If that doesn't work, pour some boiling water over the pink after a couple of hours. If it still want eat, double check your temps. Sometimes babies go off feed, we'd all love to know why.

 

[11malibu]

Temps are same as they were first feed. Right now it is 83, 73, didn't get the hot spot reading before leaving the house. She has missed 3 feedings, which it's only been about 12 days so I'm not real worried yet.