My first ever clutch

@banereptiles is right, no worries. Just leave them be under their thoughtfully provided blanket. Hopefully they’ll chow down overnight.

If not, although it’s frustrating as heck, give them another 5 days or so and try again. The hard part is bit handling them in between. Their number one job now is to become good feeders. There will be plenty of time for handling the adorable little things later.

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Yeah getting them established onto food quickly would be best. Alough when i do handle these two they are so friendly and arent even head shy!

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That’s great! I love when babies are easy going right from the start. But I really gotta say, try to confine handling to only what’s necessary for feeding until after they’ve taken a couple of meals. There are exceptions in things you might do while managing difficult feeders down the road (your cuties certainly don’t qualify for that at this point), but they’re more likely to start feeding well if you leave them on their own. They’re so cute, I know what a tough thing it is to leave them alone. I don’t mean to sound harsh. Just been through it myself.

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Yeah less handling would probably help make them eat. Hopefully they eat overnight if not ill just try again wednesday or thursday.

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Sounds like a good plan. :+1: fingers :crossed_fingers:, prayers said

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Im also really hoping one or both of them turn out to be red factor. This gene isnt even up for sale on mm in the UK currently. It can be quite hard to get most genes here aswell.




There arent even many people breeding corns in my local area so it makes it quite hard to get specific genes im looking for

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Oh wow, I didn’t realize that! I knew that availability is very different in other places. Maybe one of both of your beautiful babies will have Red Factor. That would be an extra nice bonus for you!

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Sure would and if the tessera one turns out to be red factor and male i could breed them to my fire pied (who is also pos het hypo just like the baby) and potentially breed out a red facor tessera hypo fire! But thats a few years into the future lol

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@shadowspiderjack lol! My room is my snake room as well as my tarantula room and my jumping spider room and my gecko room and my frog room…. I think that’s it! :thinking:

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I did have all my snakes in my room but ean out of space completely so I had to move some downstairs lol.

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I’m not entirely sure how many snakes are in my bedroom. It shifts. But there are a lot. And I like it that way. :smirk:

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I currently have 8 in my room out of the 13 that I own lol.

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Me too! Lol! :joy:

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Just checked up on them and neither of them have eaten. Would it be beeter to attempt another feeding wednesday or thursday?

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Aw, darn. Either day will be fine. Did you try boiled this time? If not, that’s what I would try next.

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I allowed the pinkies to defrost overnight in the fridge then used extremely warm water to heat them up.

Edit: Also when boiling them should that be done when thawed or from frozen?

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From thawed. Thaw directly in hot tap water. Then get some water boiling and dunk the thawed pinkies in a few times until they start to look a little gray and rubbery. If you boil them too long, their bellies will pop open. Not a huge deal if it happens, but it is pretty gross.

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Ok thanks for the help ill try that on wednesday.

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When I had to boil pinks for my baby GBK I simply brought some water to a boil on the stove and then poured some of the boiling water into a container and then dropped the frozen pink in the water for 3 to 4 seconds then removed the pink, dabbed it with a paper towel and then fed it to my baby……

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Sometimes they can be very picky… some of my snakes prefer their food cold for some reason? For my ball pythons one of them prefers the food very wet and wont eat it otherwise.

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