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My Greybands

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tyflier

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I picked up this pair of locality Langtry greybands last year about this time. The female took to f/t pinks straight away, but the male never did. He would not eat rodents to save his life, scented or not. I tried every trick in the book, and finally succumbed to just feeding him lizards every other week. It wasn't ideal...but he ate them and it worked.

Yesterday...my boy Spot took his first rodent, a freshly killed mouse pinky that was scented with live sagebrush lizards. After a full year of trying and fighting and finally eating lizards...my boy finally took his first rodent.

So what better time for an update? Here they are:

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This is Blair, the female. She has some really nice white halos around her saddles which get more and more intense as her ground color continues to darken. She getting some really nice size on her now, too...

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This is the male, Spot. He has a much brighter shade of grey for a ground color, and his white halos are not quite as noticeable...but he is still a very pretty boy, and these two oughtta produce some really nice babies in a couple years.

Thanks for Looking!!
 
Very nice looking snake Chris. Feeding lizards is a pain. How do you come up with enough for him?
 
wade said:
Very nice looking snake Chris. Feeding lizards is a pain. How do you come up with enough for him?
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I pay the neighborhood kids $.50 a piece for any "junk" lizards they can bring me like sagebrush, sideblotch or small fence lizards. I told them no horned lizards, collareds, zebra tails, spiny, etc...just little junkers...and they brought me lizards. I have had lizards in the freezer since early March, and about a week ago, one kid brought me two big sagebrush lizards that were too big for him to eat, but were perfect for scenting. I tried scented again last night and he finally ate it.

Hopefully, it will all be good from here. If I can get him to take f/t scented, the rest *should* be easy...

A tip for anyone needing to scent pinkies. I put 2 larger lizards in a deli cup and left them for about a week...let them poop and pee and shed and everything right in this small deli cup. When you need to scent, drop a freshly killed pink into the cup and the lizards will kick it around and lay on top of it, getting poop, shed skin, and their live scent all over it in the process. It works really well...I used it on a picky Hondo last week, and the pickiest of all, this male greyband this week. A friend of mine uses the same technique and he hatches hundreds of greybands and picky pyros every year that convert with this method...
 
I had an out break of mites about 5 years ago. I finally decided it originate with a western fence lizard I had brought home to use for scent. Something to keep in mind.
 
wade said:
I had an out break of mites about 5 years ago. I finally decided it originate with a western fence lizard I had brought home to use for scent. Something to keep in mind.
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For some reason, mites don't seem to be a big problem in my area. Possibly too dry in climate. I've never found a wild herp with mites, snake or otherwise. I am careful and quarantine all wild animals that come into the house, but it's never been an issue...don't really know why that is...
 
NICE grey bands! Beautiful. I've always wanted one or two of those, but have been afraid of their eating pickiness. You seem to have it all down though. Congrats!

Fred
 
The_Thunderer said:
NICE grey bands! Beautiful. I've always wanted one or two of those, but have been afraid of their eating pickiness. You seem to have it all down though. Congrats!

Fred
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SHHH!! Don't say that! Just when you think you have them "figured out", they will turn on you! They are picky little S.O.B.'s...but worth every minute.

Once they start eating mice, they tend to be fairly good eaters. Adults and yearlings almost always accept mice. Occasionally you come across one or two that just don't like rodents, but for the most part...the first one is the hardest.
 
Beautiful snakes!
Congrats, on getting the male to eat his first rodent. Hope he continues, on that path, for you.
 
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