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I cant one of my albino nelsons to eat can someone give me some advice

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It's about 12 weeks old. It has fed on f/t pinkie mice, but has shown no interest in them the last few Weeks. I'll try again today with a brained pinkie. any other thoughts?

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Not to put anyone down, but I would not recommend putting anything into anythings mouth until assist feeding is absolutely necessary. I will email you to continue this conversation.
 
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well i never said force feed it theres a big difference between force feeding and just putting the pinky into its mouth .. i do it with my baby corns that dont want to eat ..i carefully nudge the head of the pinky into the snakes mouth until it opens and then i move the head of the pinky into the mouth and when the snake closes its mouth i let it be and let it eat on its own
so please dont put words into my mouth ( force feeding is shoving it down the snakes throat ) i never said that ..
 
Testy testy we are....As I said, I am not putting anyone down. I just prefer giving ample time for them to do it on their own. Just my opinion. I appreciate your concern for thinking I was putting words in your mouth, but that was the least of my intentions.
 
I make a hole in the substrate, and put a small plastic cup with a hole cut in the top in the substrate. It acts as a hide for the snake, and I then put the pinky in there. For some reason all the babies I have had problems with eat when they stumble across this. Maybe its more natural dunno!
 
I agree putting something in a young snakes mouth could suffocate it, you can also try a live pinkie, or possibly small anole
 
Helping out, maybe!

Also try tuna juice, you know the stuff you drain out of a can of tuna before you eat it. I have used this method a few times on my corns. I just take a q-tip and put it in the juice, then I spred it on the pinky. Most of the time it does the trick. Be sure that your temps are right and water is plentifull. I have a few hondurans and let me tell yeah, they can be picky. One of my females wont eat unless she wants too. I offer her live mice and sometimes she wont eat so I will wait 2 weeks and offer again. Sometimes she will go longer than a month and then all the suddin she will eat 2 mice in one day and continue to feed regularly for awhile after that.
Hope that is of help

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