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T.Exeter · Key Member Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 228 Location: Kent

11 months of frustration,but now she bangs 2 a week[/img]

Scott W · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:38 am Post subject:

that's one great looking pied, not looking any worse for 11months of poor feeding.

What do you think made her take in the end?
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T.Exeter · Key Member Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 228 Location: Kent

She was WC.
The problem was finding what she was used too.
She has been in several differant sized racks,differant levels,differant substrates and hides.
I finally moved her to a 4ft vision, this had 50mm of aubiose and 2 hides.
She was offered everything i could find. African spinys,egyptian spinys,multimmamots,gerbals,rats and mice.differant sizes and colours.
When i imported her she was 1670g,in 11 months she only lost 250g.
I have a WC woma(ball morph not aspidites) and she came in at 2700g,the only thing she would take were black mouse hoppers. It took 4 months to get her to take rats.
About 10 weeks ago i put in 2 rat fluffs and the rest is history. Gradually i have increased the size,now she is on 2 small rats a week and is upto 1610g.
The main thing i changed was to include a 2% uvb tube which is diffused by the grill. Also the hides have small holes in the top.
I think she started in the end due to surruondings being close to her own.
The size of the food also is an indication that maybe she used to raid mice/rat nests in village locations not in open scrubland.

Stuart · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

Very nice snake mate,glad she has started feeding for you..welcome to the forum too.

JStroud · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject:

Bit of luck finding a wc pied with that much white on it, it looks gorgeous. Congratulations on getting it to eat, royals are funny little snakes Rolling Eyes

Dan · Captivebred Communist Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 1306

Thats a massive snake to be found WC considering how white she is, that was one hell of a find!!
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Stevec · Key Member Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 346

She is looking really good mate, cant wait to see her again soon. Good to see you posting on here.
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T.Exeter · Key Member Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 228 Location: Kent

Steve, i'll see you this week.
Dan,you will be suprised what you get offered.I have ghost,pastel,cinnamon,piebald ,all from the wild.
Once the breeding season is over i will post some pictures of the wc stock.

JStroud · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject:

Look forward to those pics Cool

danny · I'm new here... Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 8

stuunnin pied , how did you find a dealer in the first place i hear they are not easy to come by. well done on turning her around taben .

danny