First eating time!!! uh oh..

[kibakiba]

She's not the one with the ribbon snake. She doesn't know which kind it is, however it does look like a northwestern. We just need some better pictures and at a larger size to be able to tell. it's easiest to get them eating on worms, anyways since that's what they'd be eating in the wild.

[ConcinusMan]

oh, OK. I'll start the upload (video) in a few minutes. It shows me feeding my baby northwesterns.

Actually, it really depends on the habitat and what is available when it comes to what wild northwesterns eat. As for babies, they are a blank slate and can learn to eat anything. Mine have taken to fish just as much as they love worms, since they are being fed and raised with my concinnus. You could probably get babies going on pinkies too. Its' just that once they get started on a certain food, they tend to stick with it.

[kibakiba]

The ones here eat worms. When we first caught Runt, my mom ad squeezed him a little too hard by accident aand he threw up a worm that was larger than him! I felt bad for him. He was scared of eating for 3 weeks after that. Poor little one.

[ConcinusMan]

And the one's I find around salmon creek will take fish, worms, and even pinkies.

But yeah, northwesterns are primarily slug and worm eaters.

[ConcinusMan]

Here's the video:

[guidofatherof5]

Nice video.
Of all the tasks I perform here on the Ranch, it's feeding babies that is the most enjoyable.

[ConcinusMan]

I might enjoy it a bit more if it wasn't getting more and more violent and competitive as they grow. Just today, a concinnus smelled the food, and bit the head of one of the northwesterns just because he thought there might be food there, even though there wasn't.

I really do enjoy it, it's just getting to be a challenge so I guess it's a good thing that they have been selling and going down in numbers. It's a bit more manageable now albeit more challenging to keep the peace.

But anyway, my main reason for posting that here is to show one way to feed the little guys.

[guidofatherof5]

Fighting over food. May I suggest a timeout corner for the trouble maker.

[ConcinusMan]

There are only 4 corners and they are ALL troublemakers.

[guidofatherof5]

Sounds like something has gone wrong in their up bringing.
I wonder who to blame