Not eating....

Anyone have a BP go off food (not totally off, but down to once every 3-4 weeks as a juvie when he never refused a meal before) just from changing his bedding?? My boy's bein a real pain gettin to eat (mice, rats, doesn't matter) and tracking it all back it all started when I changed his bedding from coco-cubes to cypress mulch, and only half as much mulch. Sound like the likely cause??

..if it matters, he's around 350-400 grams (ordering new scale soon).

at his weight he should be alright even if he stops eating. Why the switch ? Would you go back to the original bedding? I would feed him the prey he was eating from the start and not switch him. Also make sure everything is spot on like heat, humidity, hot spot etc.

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Originally Posted by KingPythons

at his weight he should be alright even if he stops eating. Why the switch ? Would you go back to the original bedding? I would feed him the prey he was eating from the start and not switch him. Also make sure everything is spot on like heat, humidity, hot spot etc.

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Yeah, all the numbers are the same and I had already switched to him to rats with absolutely no problems. I'd rather not switch back to the coco-cubes as I'm going to be getting a rack really soon, which will use newspaper.

my guy has been doing this ever since it started to get cold. he's 9 months and he didn't eat for like 2 weeks. ate once, then didn't eat again for two weeks. ate 2 or 3 times and now he hasn't eaten for 3 weeks. trying again tonight. before this the rats barely made it into the cage before he struck.

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Originally Posted by BDwarrior

my guy has been doing this ever since it started to get cold. he's 9 months and he didn't eat for like 2 weeks. ate once, then didn't eat again for two weeks. ate 2 or 3 times and now he hasn't eaten for 3 weeks. trying again tonight. before this the rats barely made it into the cage before he struck.

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Sounds exactly the same.....guess it's just the seasonal thing (thou it's weird when it's 70-80 here). Guess that solves that....thx a lot.

Anybody out there know when this should start to wear off (I know this is fairly common with adults.....just thought my boy was a little young for that)???

I have an adult male that hasn't eaten since October. :O

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Originally Posted by JohnNJ

I have an adult male that hasn't eaten since October. :O

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EEEK! Mines only been on/off since mid-Dec.

Wish I could know when to expect this to wear off in FL, and how does it usually end.....just start eating every week or more slowly???