Snake will not gain weight
I have not been on the forums for quite some time now, and kind of miss it :D
But anyways, I have a snake that will not gain weight at all, she is eating adult mice every week, and of course just to add in, they is a stubborn feeder and skips some meals... she is about 7 months old and only weighs maybe 180 grams if I had to take a guess, I don't have a scale.
what do you guys think I should do to help her gain weight?
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Just wondering, but how do you know she isn't gaining weight if you don't have a scale?
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Drift
Just wondering, but how do you know she isn't gaining weight if you don't have a scale?
Im guessing my feeding and holding her
feeling not feeding
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I wouldn't personally go on feeling and guessed weights alone. It can be pretty hard to feel a difference in grams. Especially when any length of time has passed since your last reference point.
Also, I've personally been through this type of thing before, and a $10 scale was able to show me that they had in fact put on about 30% of their weight from the time I got them. Yet going on feel and sight had me doubting their progress.
Fecal sample still isn't a bad idea. Just saying, it's easy to perceive wrongly about this sort of thing sometimes, and scales are cheap and easy to find.