Feeding tips please

[Snaps]

Our corn hatchling has just had it's second feed.
Put the pinkie just on the kitchen roll which layers the base, up the cool end and it was gone inside the hour.

Just wondering if there's any tips on how to get it to take the food when it's presented as we'd love to watch.

[bribrian]

Just hold the pinkie by the tail & wiggle it at it's nose, i do this with most of my corns, even the bigger ones, & it usually provokes a great feeding response.... :wink:
Watch your fingers though!!!

[welshgaz]

Some corns just turn out not to be strike feeders mind.... I've never managed to get mine to strike, should see the Boas go though

[mark67123]

I wouldn't bother trying to watch at the moment - let him settle in for a bit and get some confidence first.

I'd give him a week or two, then when you feed, arrange things so that you can see the pinky, lower the lights as much as possible and keep very still - he'll pick up on movement more than just the fact that you're watching.
If he realises you're there then give up and give him another week before trying again.

When he's a bit older (1 year+) and on larger food you could get some tongs and get him strike feeding/constricting. Some won't do it, but most of mine have.
You could try it sooner with pinkies/tweezers but it'd be a bit fiddly and it might freak him out, so I'd let him grow a bit first.

[Snaps]

Thanks folks.
Just impatient I guess. We'll give it a few more weeks.

Seems to be getting used to being handled now, doesn't like being taken out but fine when it's out.

I really would like to be able to stop calling it "it". Are there any external hints as to male or female or do we have to wait for it to be big enough to do it properly.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Snaps

Are there any external hints as to male or female or do we have to wait for it to be big enough to do it properly.

What you waiting for? Corns can be sexed from birth onwards

[Snaps]

What you waiting for? Corns can be sexed from birth onwards

Well there you go, we learn something new every day.
At the risk of sounding like Fred Dineage, How?

[Lostcorn]

Take a look at this

http://www.cornutopia.com/Corn%20Uto...id%20clips.htm


John

[Trice]

Oh cool, but i think i'll take my snow to Cold Blooded sometime.

[Slapshot]

can you train a responce from them.

What i mean is if you just plonk the pinkie in a box with the baby corn, will he just "slither" up to the pinkie and eat it. Or can you entice the strike by holding the pinkie out for him to go at.

Slapshot