Snake Updates

Just to keep everyone updated, Salazar has finally eaten. Though the process of getting him to eat was quite sad and depressing. We have been trying to feed him pre-killed forzen to no avail. Merope took to those things like no other. Salazar on the other hand is a picky little thing. We didn't want to have to do live kill because it would have been to sad for us to have to listen to the poor little mouse squeal. We got a hold of Salazar's breeder and found out that she had been doing fresh-killed, meaning that they killed the mouse at the house and then fed it to him. Unfortunately for us, this is what we ended up having to do. We we starting to get nervous because he was so much smaller than Merope and looked like he was loosing his body mass. Luckily he took the poor thing and now has had his first meal in three weeks. We are hoping we'll be able to get him off of fresh-killed and onto frozen like his sister. She is such a great eater. We're planning on starting to feed her twice a week to get her to mature at the same rate as Salazar. Which won't be difficult if he continues to be such a picky and stubborn eater.