Yes, but not a very good one, as when they're bigger they'll start charging you the instant they see the dish. Target training them with a bell or ball on a stick would work much better.They get fed non-live food out of a dish that I place in there with the tongs, so does the dish entering the cage count as a trigger?
The larger of the two is a little porker and ate an entire fuzzy on its own today in addition to a few crickets; it was a pretty big fuzzy, too, and was pretty close to being a small hopper. I never got to see it eat it as they don't like eating non-live foods when I'm watching, but I know that it ate it all on its own as the other one was still sleeping. I think that I'll try some chopped scallops tomorrow as well as some chopped squid in addition to the crickets that they get.
Small ones will always be shy about eating in front of you, as they grow they will become much bolder. A 6' nile isn't going to be scared of you whatsoever.
As far as the sexing, it would be wise to note that the method has only been used on Australian and geographically close species, not on African species, and even in some of the species they did it to, the juveniles were not sexable. The only larger species tried was V. spenceri, nothing else. It could work, but I wouldn't use it as a definitive method.
If you want to breed and want to take a gamble that they are in fact both females, I'd grab another baby.. If you don't raise them up together, breeding them will be tricky unless you have a gigantic cage that adult niles can hide from each other in, as unsocialized adult niles will behave nastily towards each other.. Even ones raised together may simply kill each other if they don't have a big enough cage, introducing adults to each other would be almost a guarantee of murder.


