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Re: Kenyan refusing food...for too long!
I can only tell you what worked for me.
I purchased a male EASB (Kenyan) a few years back from a fellow who had had it for 3 months. He told me up front that it had not eaten for him in the time he had it.
In spite of that I made the purchase believing I could get him to feed somehow. Sometime I over rate my own abilities in my head.
For 6 months he did not eat even though I tried every trick in the book. Well all but one.
Finally one day it hit me, when I was feeding a picky eating hatchling corn, that there was indeed something I had not tried with the EASB. I had not tried putting him in a deli with playsand for him to hide in with a live prey and covering it with something so he was in the sand in a closely confined environment in the dark.
I tried it, leaving him overnight in that set up covered with a thick towel with a live pink mouse a few days old. The next morning there was no pink.
It took some time to wean him away from the sand and the live but he now eats frozen thawed rat pinks in a covered larger deli. I still leave him over night as well because I don't feel the need to disrupt a process that is working to determine how long it actually takes for him to eat the prey.
For you I would suggest the same using a live Day Old Pink Mouse.
Last edited by John_E_Dove : 05-20-2008 at 04:50 AM.
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