Feeding pinky bits?

[EasternGirl]

Good suggestion...I also use scissors to cut up the worms...I have never tried it with the pinkies or fish though...

[d_virginiana]

I have a tackle knife for the worms. For pinkies I just use a really sharp kitchen knife..

Though I've noticed that my baby prefers pinkie 'parts' instead of pinkie mush. Even when I first got her, should wouldn't touch anything that was all mixed up like that. So that's why I usually pull out the individual organs to give her. She'll also take whole legs and tails. But if you put a random chunk of globby mouse goop in front of her she just gives it this look like 'righhhhhhttttt' and heads in the other direction. Houdini on the other hand would chomp down on anything remotely food-like as soon as you put it in his cage before he went blind.

[Stefan-A]

[EasternGirl]

You pull out the individual organs? How do you do that? I don't really see any organs...just blood and guts...

[Light of Dae]

I was really blonde the other day n thawed a pinkie before cutting it, and found I could see the whole digestive tract lol mmm yummy. My snake has turned into a pig since I started chopping up salmon n worms into a goloush mash. As far as pinkies go I have a ziplock bag I put them in (cut up) with worm n or salmon bits then run luke warm water over it, or just hold it in my hand till it don't feel like a squishy ice cube anymore :P

[EasternGirl]

Hmmm...I am going to try that because putting the pinkies in water to thaw them always leaves them a bit waterlogged. Thanks! I don't have any worms right now...I need to go to the bait store and buy some...it's too cold to find any outside now. But I am going to try making a mixed plate of chopped up pinkie and salmon tonight for the new baby and see if he will eat since he hasn't eaten yet.

[tress29]

I bought tilapia tonight.

[EasternGirl]

Cool..Tress...have they eaten anything other than worms yet?

[tress29]

Cool..Tress...have they eaten anything other than worms yet?

The radix didn't eat his pinky, but I cut another into 6 pieces and 4 were eaten. Unfortunately, I didn't see who ate what. I'm getting ready to thaw some fish, I'm just now getting to MY dinner as well! I've been on Fishlore reading about aquatic plants for my ADF tank!

[EasternGirl]

Sounds good...yes, make sure you have time to eat too . Cee Cee ate a bunch of pinkies and salmon tonight...I'm fearing that she may already be gravid because the only time I have seen her eat like this is when she was before. Seely is refusing to eat...I guess he's boycotting on account of being taken away from his girlfriend...lol. I put some pinkies and salmon under Hermes' hide for him and stuck him in there with it...I'll go check in a bit to see if he ate any.