Success at last

[sam1]

Hi all,
I got a female bredli hatchling called 'Cleopatra' she is 9 weeks old and I've had her for two weeks. After one week I had her I tried giving her her first meal without success....I tried just about every thing from scenting the fuzzy with skink to even trying live fuzzy which I really didn't want to do. I even went and bought a quail and scented the fuzzy with it (the breeder told me she had had four feeds on day old quails) but no success.

I spoke to a couple of people on the forum and they told me to leave her for a week and then again. Well today I managed to find a place that sold frozen day old quail, I took a quail out and two fuzzies and thawed them out together to help scent the fuzzies. I just got home from work and offered her a fuzzy and WHAM she took it in a flash and down the hatch it went.
I got so excited as she ate both fuzzies.

The first fuzzie she took, she swalled it backwards not head first. Can this cause any problems?

[sam1]

I just checked on her and she seems pretty content as far as I can tell. Also how often should I feed her? and is two fuzzies to much?

[Desert Dweller]

Congratulations on the feeding, its a relief when they do finally eat for you.

My boy has eaten mice backwards twice now- it looks so....aagh. Getting the tail. legs, and hair down backwards I was so worried at first but he's fine afterwards.

[rubydimond]

my diamon took his first two backwards and he was fine now hes got it worked out and is feeding fine. i think due to the hair the fuzzy can get stuck going backwards but im sure the snake will regergitate if it has any probs

[sam1]

Thanks guy, yeah it is a relief and I'm sure she will get the hang of it.

[Camo]

Yeah mate it is no problem if they take there food backwards. I once had a coastal kind of eat side ways. As for feeding i usualyy feed my hatchies every 5 or so days for a year or so and then stretch it out to every 7 to 10 days when they are over a year old.

HTH

Cameron