Thanks Caryl! They’re both chowing as I type this. 
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Chowing is always a good thing! I was wondering, after Pez decided that dark mice were acceptable food, how did she do about any other refusals?
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She ate her seventh fuzzy in a row the other day, and she’s probably almost 40g now. No refusals, even in blue!
She’s about to graduate to hoppers, and I only have black ones, so it may be a while to see if she rejects white. I doubt it. I think she’s figured stuff out.
I’m still syringing egg into her brother Gobstopper. I took a few weeks off from it to see if he’d get an appetite, but nope. So I’m going to try to egg him to a weight where either his appetite kicks in, or it’s easy to shove pinks down his throat. I’m not good at assist feeding.
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Interesting. It does seem that most of them keep going after they decide it’s nicer to be full. I’ve got one from last season who is being a challenge. She came to me as a stubborn baby who wouldn’t eat, then took one voluntary gecko-scented meal. Right back to stubborn. I hope she figures it out before this year’s eggs start hatching.
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This is Peep, the sister of Pez (~40g) and Gobstopper (~24g). While they’ve tried to starve themselves, she’s been assimilating calories like crazy. 150g.
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Cool pics. Isn’t it funny how different siblings can be?
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Looks like she got all the appetite in the group, ha!
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Definitely doesn’t look like a problem feeder for sure!
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Still syringing egg into her jerk bro though. But he’s almost 30g, so I need to start assist-feeding him and see if I can kick start his rodent appetite.
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He’s probably secretly laughing inside wondering how long you are going to fall for his charade! 
. Or maybe he thinks he was born an “egg eating snake!”
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Hah! Hope he resolves the identity crisis soon.
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Got my fingers crossed for ya. I’ve got a stubborn baby from last season, myself. She came as a non-feeder She took one voluntary gecko scented meal when she arrived here, then went back to “nope.” Hasn’t mattered what tricks I’ve tried. I’ve begun a program of assist-feeding every 6 days in hopes of kick starting her hunger. I would really like to have her eating before the new hatchlings arrive and start needing meals!
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And that, my dear friend, is exactly one of the reasons why I do not breed ANYTHING!
But seriously, people who want to breed just because they have a male and a female and they want to see what they would get need to consider issues such as non-feeders.
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Yeah, I’ve told my guy that he’s got until first ‘24 pip to get his act together, but he might know I’m bluffing. It’d sure be nice though!
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Yeah, well, people who want to breed just because just for the heck of it because it would be fun to try, well… Sometimes they get lucky. Sometimes not. You’re right, @caron, of course. I’ll hop off the soapbox.
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I think Rutabaga might be my favorite one that I sent! Although Burdock is a close second.
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Rutabaga is everyone’s favorite.
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