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Eating
Two of my BP's refused feeding two weeks in a row, and feeding day is comung up soon. The male ate, but my female and my other one that I do not know the gender of refused. They both sniffed it, but the wouldn't strike. How do I entice them to eat?
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Warm the mouse heads with a hair dryer.
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Re: Eating
are you feeding the appropriate size for their weight?
how are you preparing the prey items?
is your husbandry on point (this is a loaded question so being as thorough as possible will help us help you)?
a month or so ago i had constant refusals except for my corn snake. i narrowed it down to what i believe were bad feeders and had to buy all new stock. so are your feeders good?
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Re: Eating
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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr
are you feeding the appropriate size for their weight?
how are you preparing the prey items?
is your husbandry on point (this is a loaded question so being as thorough as possible will help us help you)?
a month or so ago i had constant refusals except for my corn snake. i narrowed it down to what i believe were bad feeders and had to buy all new stock. so are your feeders good?
The size is good, and I defrost them in room temperature water. The warm side is about 85-92 and cold side is usually 76-82, humidity is 55-60%. They both eat adult mice, follwing this chart:https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...07ea85dd6e.jpg
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Re: Eating
I live in the middle of nowhere, closest "city" is half an hour away. Packages never get delivered to the roght door, and all of my neighbours live at least an acre away, so who knows who packages get shipped to. The only source of rodents I have is Petco, sadly.
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Re: Eating
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Originally Posted by MJ_Bosley
the only things i can say based on your info is that you have a big swing for your warm side, and 76° is pretty low for a cold side temp IMO (but not bad, i just try to keep mine at 79-81°). what're you using for heat? and how is it regulated?
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Re: Eating
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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr
the only things i can say based on your info is that you have a big swing for your warm side, and 76° is pretty low for a cold side temp IMO (but not bad, i just try to keep mine at 79-81°). what're you using for heat? and how is it regulated?
I use UTH, and I have stick on thermostats, I am buying probes with my next pay. I also have infrared lights for winter when it gets cold out and the UTH doesn't heat thw tanks enough
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Re: Eating
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Originally Posted by MJ_Bosley
I use UTH, and I have stick on thermostats, I am buying probes with my next pay. I also have infrared lights for winter when it gets cold out and the UTH doesn't heat thw tanks enough
a UTH is not designed for heating ambient (air) temps, so you'll need supplemental heating if the room stays below 75°.
are you regulating your UTH with a thermoSTAT?
also, you should consider buying digital probed thermometers/hygrometers as they are much more reliable than analog ones.
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Re: Eating
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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr
a UTH is not designed for heating ambient (air) temps, so you'll need supplemental heating if the room stays below 75°.
are you regulating your UTH with a thermoSTAT?
also, you should consider buying digital probed thermometers/hygrometers as they are much more reliable than analog ones.
Does this look reliable?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...066fe9c87d.jpg
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Re: Eating
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Originally Posted by MJ_Bosley
i honestly can't say. it very well could be, and you could test it against a temp gun (if you don't have one i can't recommend them enough) to see how it works, but most of us recommend AcuRite brand thermometers/hygrometers and i myself use them. they make probed thermo/hygrometers that look similar and they're very reliable with my time using them.
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