Corn not eating

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Gambusia
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Apr 28, 2007
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About a month ago I bought 3 corns. The first week all of them ate fine. After that though my butter corn will not eat anything. I leave her i the feeding cup for a couple hours and she wont touch it. I have tried exposing the brain of the pinky too and it hasn't worked either. I also gave her a warm bath to see if that would help at all and it hasnt yet. Then I was told to try and soak the pinky in low sodium chicken broth and that should get her to eat is this worth trying? I have also thought about trying a live pinky if she wont eat. She still has some weight to her but I don't want anyhing to happen. Any suggestions on what I should do?

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I hate to do it to ya but you gotta give us the settups,lights or whtever you got for heat,substrate,hides,cage temp,boombox up against the cage,and dont say they are all in one cage together because though you may never have a problem their is definite chances you will some day and plus it will start loads of crap on this forum,lol.If you got pics then great.How big are the snakes.Do they drink water,open up here for us.
 
put your snake and the pinky in a butter dish(with air holes) and leave it in the tank over night with the lights off. works every time ;)
 
you could try the brown paperbag method. put pinkie and corn in bag and paperclip shut. same thing as the container in the dark. ive heard the chicken broth method before too but dont know if it works. if you have all three corns in the same cage, take them out. ive witnessed corns eating corns before. and these were ones that werent being fed in the same cage. so it happens.
 
we had a kingsnake freak out when she ate a pinky one time.. refused to eat anything but green anole lizards and house geckos for over a year. got kinda expensive too.

but when she was finally big enough to eat fuzzies we tried again and she hasn't refused a mouse since then. she's eating small adults now, live only, not prekilled. we tried all the tricks to get her to eat dead mice, it was a lost cause.
 
buy two anoles or house geckos Feed it an anole in a very small container I use meal worm and wax worm containers the Idea is to have some part of the snake in contact with the food Item at all times than for the next 4 feedings wipe your pinkies on your live anole to scent them start with first pinky being live then next 3 can be f/t save your anole for the next non- feeders or sell the butter to me:naughty: I've worked in pet stores for 10 year's now an some of them where pretty bad corp. monsters that only buy large qu. in breed non feeding snakes the real trash that the breeders cant sell that go to large whole sale disturbers and even these guys will eat If it gets real bad where you can see weight loss then you get to the fun stuff of force feeding mice tails :ROFL:but I've only ever lost two both where force feed for about 4+ months till they just gave in but all and all I'd say that there's a 99.5 % chance that any corn can be trained to eat For more info please PM me thanks
 
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