Just thought I'd share an anecdote. A few weeks back Jordan brought me a couple of racer babies (CB) for me to try my hands on getting started. Being excited as I was, I tried all my best, assist-fed, force-fed pink parts, tried insects (crix didn't work for Jordan either). So after a few weeks I've only managed to maintain teir weight with no further progress.
As some of you know, I have a bunch of housesnake hatchlings which haven't started feeding for me (holding out for live pinks I suppose). Amongst the bunch there was one in particular I didn't feel good about and it was a real tiny runt compared to the rest of the worms. Well, what do I do, but pop the runt in with one of the racers just to see if it'll take.
Today, I came back home to an amok space heater heating up the room to 94F (not soo bad) and two dead racers. I had left the racers by the window to get some sunlight since my herp room was cooler than usual. So 2 dead racers. Then I remember about that run housesnake and start looking to see if it was alive. Damn thing was dead, in the belly of the racer.
Lessons learnt for today:
1: Don't ever trust your space heater 100%
2: Don't leave herps near sunny windows unattended
3: Next time I get unstarted CB racers, feed em house snakes!!
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