Henry the bee is driving me crazy!!!!

[BPelizabeth]

Little bee terd!!!!!! He has been so passive about eating lately and is truly driving me nutso! He has always been such a fierce eater...imagine trash can...and that would be him. Well he has hit 600 grams now and is finiky.

Here is what he has been doing......first of all he will not bite and coil lately. We have to pre-kill it and lay it in his tub. Then after about 20 minutes he has to lay on it....rub on it...."love" on it for a while. Eventually he will finally eat it. Yesterday he layed his head on it for 30 minutes before he finally ate it.

His husbandry is spot on....but I am wondering if I should move him into a rack without the girls? Maybe the girls are throwing him a little off??? He is at the size that he could get a little action....but the girls are not at all big enough yet.

I don't know....thoughts??

[Seru1]

Maybe This my newbness showing but is it a problem as long as he eats it? I mean I have leave my girl completely alone for a few hours before she'll eat f/t prey on her own left in the cage.


Moving him might not hurt if you can I guess. I dunno. I wish I could make my girl strike. Or read her mind that might help to.

[BPelizabeth]

Maybe This my newbness showing but is it a problem as long as he eats it? I mean I have leave my girl completely alone for a few hours before she'll eat f/t prey on her own left in the cage.

Well one would think....I guess I am just so use to him being a total killer!!

[MitsuMike]

Im with you 100% on this one. I have having the same issue. I have to try sooooo damn hard to get him to eat. He has refused last week.
What tub is he in. I'm thinking I might have to up him (500 grams) to a 28 qt. That might solve the prob.

[Seru1]

Well one would think....I guess I am just so use to him being a total killer!!

Yeah, I love my pastel but I always wanted a snake with a nice feeding response. So I can understand your sentiment totally.

[dr del]

Hi,

My male lesser is being a bit "Meh!" about eating as well at the moment - sadly he is also being a bit Meh! about breeding with the females.

This might be a good time to try and convert him to F/T if you were thinking of it - since he has stopped needing it to be alive and moving anyway.


dr del

[BallsUnlimited]

i have a male albino at 750 grams and he is a pain in the but to feed. He will eat 3 str8 weeks in a row then not eat for a month an a half eat once then not eat again for another 3 weeks then goes back on food weekly lol. some just like to be a pain in the but so to speak.

[Danounet]

Well I think is a weight thing.

My Female spider decided to stop eating for a while when she got to 560~g.

She didn't eat for about 3 weeks. She was a trash can too. She recently ate a F/T I had in the freezer, but she didn't coil it. She just grabbed it and swallowed it after it had been laying in her tub for a while. That was last Saturday. That was actually the first time I've done F/T successfully.

Same thing with my female normal, when she got to 600g. She wasnt the aggressive feeder she used to be, and would take her sweet time to eat, or not eat at all.

[BPelizabeth]

Im with you 100% on this one. I have having the same issue. I have to try sooooo damn hard to get him to eat. He has refused last week.
What tub is he in. I'm thinking I might have to up him (500 grams) to a 28 qt. That might solve the prob.

He is in a 42 qt.....we made our rack a couple of months ago....I love it!!

I am thinking it is weight...maybe they take a little OMG...I am getting big break!!

[Danounet]

I seriously think so.

I think their instincts are design to eat like eating machines until they get to 500-600~g mark. To get big quick. Survival of the fittest, or the biggest...

Then after that they seem to get a completely different feeding attitude. Or take a feeding break for a while. At least that's what I've experience with the 3 BPs I have raised from under 100-200g to 500g+.

I guess we have to wait till someone with more breeding experience steps up with the info