Finally!!!

[crzy_kevo]

ok so yesterday i went to The Vivarium (obviously an exotics/reptile pet shop)

anyways i bought 2 pinkies to try and get george and checkers to eat and i also looked around the shop and spotted my next snake i want but back to the story at hand

so today i goto feed the pinkies to george and checkers and surprisingly they didnt want them but i also bought them because they are a little more solid to try and force feed them (remember these snakes havent eaten since about a month before brumation and they have been out since the last week of december anyways george force feeding wasnt a problem one i got it in there to get her to start chewing that ws it and it was gone however checkers is a real bugger kept pushing it out but i finally got her to take the other pinky too so now i know they at least have some form of nutrition.

and back to the next snake i want the shop had some juvi leucistic texas rat snakes they were about 28-30" i think and the guy there told me he has been working with them everyday to make sure they are tame and they were i held one and it was like i was holding george no bites or other hostility anyways they were so beautiful i must have one im gonna buy 1 with my tax return

[Snake lover 3-25]

lol good luck with your next snake!

congrats on having a sucessful feeding

[infernalis]

Congrats Kevin.

[crzy_kevo]

well its still not much just a smal little pinkie for george who could problably take a couple hoppers

[infernalis]

That's OK, I have a little eastern who is only taking one small feeder guppy every couple days.

SOMETHING is better than nothing.

[Snake lover 3-25]

yup sure is.... just wondering.... have they shed yet since comming out of brumation?

[crzy_kevo]

no hey havent shed yet either

[olive oil]

Can't wait to see pictures of your new rat snake!!!
We have them wild around our yard, can't wait to see some this spring.
Honestly I have been thinking of one myself

[Sid]

Glad to hear you were able to get someting into your Garters, Kevin. I had one of my large female Easterns being really stuborn and not eating after burmation. I put some guppies in her water with 3 fuzzies last week. The guppies were too small to have been of benifit to her, but they did trigger the feeding response and she downed all three of her mice. You may want to give someting like that a try.

[Snake lover 3-25]

aaaa i'll bet they won't eat till they shed..... raise the humidity and temp.... maybe add a second heat lamp at a different angle..... they think they're still in brumation..... meadow does it to me all the time..... the temp & humidity changes after they came out didn't change enough so you'll have to chand=ge them even more....... they'll eat you'll just have to work at it lol