I'm by no means and expert, but I would personally try to get them to eat live pinkies first..just to stimulate their appetite, and later move to F/T before using products.

I haven't used it and know nothing of it. Have you tried tailing them? (Force feeding a mouse tail) if you've been unsuccessful with live? How old are they? Are they losing weight? How much?

+1 thewesterngate. If you haven't tried live yet, get a couple live pinks and see how they do. Offering a live pink to get them going isn't the end of the world... The last clutch of corns I dealt with, I had a few stubborn ones who just would not take frozen/thaw for anything. One live pink is all it took, and, in all cases, the next feeding around they took frozen/thaw with no complaints.

If you haven't done it already, offer live pinks to the stubborn ones. Tuna, lizard, and chicken broth scenting have all also proven successful for non-feeder corns, if you haven't tried them.

I wouldn't worry about them not eating just yet, if you've only offered first pinky.

Sometimes it takes a couple meals before they start eating.

I agree that offering a live pink can be a really good way to get them to eat. It sometimes triggers their feedign response. I've had a few babies that start off eating live pinks, & every one of them switched to f/t without any problems.

If you can get a hold of a green anole, &/or anole shed, I have had really good success in getting stubborn pinks to eat by anole scenting. A couple times I have used anole saliva (holding the anole, & a f/t pinky, & getting the anole to bite the pink) or taking a small piece of anole shed, & putting it on the nose of a washed pinky.

I've tried the chicken broth and anole lizard scenting both with a live anole lizard and with a frozen thawed one. I've ordered live pinkies and will pick them up Monday afternoon.  I know it works to use live pinks sometimes. However, i've not had success in doing so up to this point but going to try again anyway.  I know last  year with one  baby anole scenting which was the last thing that I tried worked and got one of the two babies to eat. I had been force feeding those two with a mouse tail last year for a month or two before trying the lizard scenting. I got one to eat after that but the other one just absolutely refused and ended up dying. This year the anole scenting worked on getting a couple to eat last clutch I had but I have 1 left from that clutch still has yet to eat and one from my most recent clutch hatched july 11 that still hasn't eaten. So I got live pinkies ordered and will give that a try.

The 1 baby from previous clutch that still has yet to eat was hatched May 31 .

the baby from may should take a live. unless it's too sick/thin to eat, then it's a loss. the other babies shouldn't be a big deal, i have babies born at the end of june that haven't eaten. they will when they are hungry. i wouldn't suggest the repti+boost. it sounds like it's for geckos or lizards, not snakes that eat who animals. i don't think it would have the proper nutitional requirements for them.

The guy I heard about Repta Boost is a reptile rehabilitatator with a license but he just wasn't sure about weather or not it was safe to use on hatclings because he never used it on them before but said on adult snakes it works miracles.

I'm going to try live pinkies first to see if that works.

This comment may be a bit 'off-topic', i just saw the word "I bought from Petco" and had to speak up!! please,--no offense, sincerely, but i reccomend buying pets and pet supplies ANYWHERE except Petco. They are Horrific to their animals, so im pretty sure they dont give a crap if they stock the proper meds for sick fur or scale babies!!! Try a local 'mom n pop" type store, they care, and will almost always do what they can to help you. I had a feeding issue with my infant king, i took him back to the pet store (local, family owned business) and they took him in for a month, till he was feeding good again! Best of luck with your scale-baby. :)

Accalia, while you're correct that Petco is hardly the best place to buy pet anything, I wanted to point out that not all mom & pop stores "care." To give you an example, where I live, I have yet to encounter a good local pet store. Quite honestly, Petco and Petsmart are about as good as it gets for full-line pet stores in my city, and I'm talking about animal care here, not even what they stock! The rest? Well, some of them are SO bad, I won't even set foot in the doorway anymore! At the very least, with the chain stores, there's a certain set of standards they're supposed to uphold, and a chain of command that can (in theory, at least) be enacted to boot the worst stores into gear. Locally owned stores are only as good as the owner, which can range from absolutely excellent to down-right nightmarish.

I'm not a Petco fan, either, but I wouldn't fault Anjeanette for purchasing supplies there. You never know how awful her locally owned store might be, if there's one at all! (Alternately, the item she was looking for could just as easily be not carried by a smaller store.)

Just my $.02... :)

While I'm here, Anjeanette, were you able to try live yet?

Buzz and I tried B12 mixed with water last year at the suggestion of our vet and another breeder for some of our hatchlings that would not eat and it worked.  You have to watch the amount (only a tiny drop in water) because too much can harm their systems according to the herp vet we use.  You can get liquid B12 at most drug stores (it supposedly helps stimulate the appetite).  We have also tried everything from live pinkies to anole scenting, etc. but last year the B12 worked for us.  Hope this helps a little and that you are successful.

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