I recently collected my first hot, a beautiful, female pink speck. It's decently young (5 rattle segments) and looks fat and healthy. I have had her for roughly three weeks.
I can't get the thing to eat. I've tried frozen thawed mice several times, a FT fuzzy, an adult live mouse, a dead leopard lizard and an dead spiny lizard. It seemed curious about the live mouse, but seemed to be scared of it, so I quickly removed it to avoid injury.
Right now she is in a secured 20g L, of which I have covered the sides with black cardboard. I have the bottom covered with non-adhesive shelf liner, and have hides on both the heated (lamp) end and cool end (where she spends most of her time, on TOP of it). This is a temporary enclosure only, as I'll be picking up a vision 332 (and locks obviously) within the next week.
I keep quite a few other snakes and know my way around a trouble feeder, but this one is obviously a little different. Any advice for a first timer?
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