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Sibling rivalry

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Comparison shot of 3 babies from the same clutch - all have fed the same number of times.

The two on the left were twins; the one on the right had her own room. 60+ gram difference between the middle and right at hatching.
 

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I'm sure they will - I had to assist feed the little one twice, but she took the last one by herself. The other one has no interest in mice...until I hold them by the tails with tweezers so they freak out. She'll have to get over that soon.

The one on the right was a little slow to start...but when she decided she was ready to eat, she took f/t from the start. Kinda weird having hatching BPs start on f/t, but I've had a handful do it this year
 
Yeah we have had a couple to assist feed but they always seem to turn out to be the best feeders after that. We also had a couple just nail F/T as their first choice. Wish they were all like that...
 
I'm usually content to let them eat when they're ready...but, given her hatch weight of 23grams, I started getting antsy as we closed in on a month post shed.
 
Yeah we do also. Sometimes the hatchlings will go a couple months no food before i start getting worried. Still healthy and fat i just freak the ones we had to assist feed were one that had a twisted umbillicus and was around 30 grams and we had a boob egg snake that hatched at 25 grams.
 
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