Blargh

[Immy]

Ok, this is my story how stressful feeding is for me right now, which maybe some of you know.. not sure, but anyway...

Way back before my snake went off-feed of almost 6 months last year, i had him on a once a week, chain petstore, f/t, adult mouse diet (still do). I asked when I could feed him bigger prey and I got comments saying you can switch to small rats once a week. So I did just that. Everything was going fine until 3 months later he refused it. So, to try and get him to eat again anyway, the next week I feed him something smaller (adult mouse), nothing. Then became the most stressful 6 months of my life. I feel the rats caused his fasting. Then July of '10, he finally ate some little hoppers i gave to him, snatched those guys like it was no one's business. I then gradually brought the prey items larger to adult mice again and decided to just have a strict 'adult mice only' diet. So i gave him 2 or 3 adult mice every week, to increase his weight. Then.. to no surprise, within the 3 months he stops eating.. again. So, I had to feed him hoppers again for him to eat.. again, which he did. Last week, I feed him an adult mouse and he ate it.. My snake is going on 2 years (possibly 3 If you count the hatch date, or 2 1/2, not sure) and after all of his fastings, he has become the same weight since the December of '09.

Can someone, please tell me what I should do? I am afraid to put him on rats. I don't want anymore fastings..

[Geoper]

wait for a more informed answer but I would say try to stick with adult mice if the snake is eating them fine. Perhaps the sanke is not ready for the rat. All snakes have slightly different metoblizisms, not to mention their easy ability to imprint on certain prey. As long as you are offering food to the snake on a regular basis, it will eat when it wants to.

[willieshotg3]

how many grams is the snake...as long as it is not loosing waight you should be fine...BP will go on feeding strikes in the winter...also i found if you ambiant temp in your tub drops they will go on strike...try to meshure the air temps in the tub about 80-82 and all my snakes feed strong