Hi, we have a young ball python that was donated to a bio class. I think I may need so.e help feeding. I haven't got to give him his second meal and his first took a couple of attempts before he actually accepted anything. He/she is in a terrarium on coconut shred with a dimming UTH on one side under a 40 watt lamp, under the lamp it is about 85 and his hot hide around 90 his cool side is high 70s low 80s. Humidity is hard but between 60% and 40% misting often With a big water dish. He ate 2 weeks after we got him. And just finished its first shed ( a good one ). We are offering frozen thawed small mouse, which he ate 2 a little over 2 weeks ago today, yesterday and today we attempred to recreate the situation to no avail.


Actually he took about two weeks to eat and we waited a week to try. He refused to even pay attention to the dancing mice pinkies on the forceps. (Duh too small for him! But strikes at me all the time) we would try early morning before the light goes on and give him/her a little show and then leave the mouse alone with him for a while, nothing. But when I gave him a small mouse of course he rejected the wiggling..... but, 20 min later he came out and wrapped him up. Now he acts funny, real funny when we try, he gets all active normally he is invisible in the hide or another camo spot. But when trying to offer him food he is out all over the tank and trying to slither up up and opening his mouth and tounge flickin and basically acting all comando- performer all that day, out and hunting about, but ignores our frozen/thaws. Oh yeah we decided to feed him in the tank cause we do not want to stress him out-which im sure I am with all the dancing mouse stuff anyway. I thought maybe out of tank feeding woyld make the warm mouse more visible to him once though but have not tried.

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