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promethear

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So last week I fed slick a pinky head to make sure He would eat. Thursday night I tried the rest of the pinky. He spends MOST of his time trying to get out of the feeding tub unless I cover it. Ok...so I do. About an hour later I hear a soft 'thump'. I assume he is either striking or something, but leave him alone. An hour after that I check. The pinky body is split lengthwise, the insides are strewn around the feeding tank, and one hind leg is on the opposite corner. At the time my g/f said it truly stank. When I put slick back, he went into hide mode as if he had eaten (and mostly has not moved). What was that? Do I count it as a regurge, or he tried to constrict a headless pinky and it made a mess and he did not eat...(and managed to stress himself out)? He is 10g and very active when he hasnt just eaten. I keep the thermostat at around 83 on the warm side. The cool side tends to be whatever the room is.
 
Well, he either ate some or none of it. Wait till you ever have an adult mouse explode- the smell is extremely bad!!! Not like death, like a regurge, but almost equally horrible. The thump might have been him trying to hang from the edge to get away from it, and falling.
 
not very. I thawed it by placing it in a baggie in a bowl of hot water for 20 min. Also The mouse sat in the feeding tank for 15 minutes before I covered it.
 
Maybe the thump was him falling off of that little lip where the lid snaps onto the box ? As far as the food is concerned maybe he got it backwards ? (buttmunchin) and got thrown off when all the guts started spewing all over the place like a hot pocket with a hole in the side who knows i think the fact that he did SOMETHING with it is encouraging. I would check to make sure he doesn't have any scales from his last shed constricting his neck I haven't had that happen but i have heard that they can get little strips of unshed skin around there neck and it makes swallowing difficult.
GOOD LUCK
 
Better news. He was out cruising tonight (with NO hint of having eaten) so I thawed a pinky and slit it. I put it on a tupperware lid in the viv for an hour...He spent the hour flicking his tounue bit not moving. On a hunch, I placed the pink and then him in a feeding tub (not the same one). 25 seconds later he had swallowed the pinky =). Given that he has eaten a head, and a whole pink but refused (or been confused by) a headless, it seems he prefers something with the brains attached. Thus earning him the middle name 'double tap' =).
 
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