I'll begin by saying I've kept lots of garters, liophis and nerodia in the past and have come across fussy and non-feeders before and have managed to get them going. However, my little dice snake is proving to be somewhat impossible to entice to feed.

It's a cb12 and it is around 7/8 inches. I've had it around 2/3 weeks and have tried to leave it alone as much as possible. I've tried feeding the way I feed the rest of my snakes, which is thawed smelt chopped on small dishes. I have left it alone, trying both daytime and night feeding. I've offered a small earthworm, but again no success. I've wiggled food on long tweezers to see if that works but again, nothing.

I would try and use some live fish ie. guppies or minnows but I believe the snake would be too small to tackle a whole live fish. I've pondered trying to scent fish or pinky parts by rubbing the parts on my tiger salamander (I'm sure he wouldn't mind!) to see if that might stimulate it to feed. The only other thing I can think of is to try another sort of fish such as trout fillet.

If anyone has any good ideas I would love to hear from you, as it is starting to look a little thin now.

Thanks in advance