Feeding problems

I know there are a lot of threads re feeding but I am looking for some advice.

my BO I’d 3 years old and weighs 1650g, she last shed at the end of September. Temps and humidity are great in her enclosure.

When I first got her I was told to feed her every 10-14 days. I put the rat in, she would roll all over it and then eat it no problem. About 6 weeks after I got her she struck the rat as I was placing it inside (took me a little by suprise) and then struck every time we fed her after that until 4 weeks ago. We started feeding her every 7 days as per the guidelines we saw in here and it has been hit and miss if she even shows an interest let alone eats it.

She did eat yesterday, I placed the rat in her enclosure before I went to bed at 10pm and she didn’t eat it until 6am this morning. Her reluctance to eat seems to coincide with a stupid friend of ours who thought it was ok to start taking photos with the flash on while I was attempting to feed her!!! I wasn’t happy and made my feelings known and it is since then we have struggled to get the same feeding response.

Is she now scared of food? Has the tryst gone? Or is this just a coincidence and it’s the time of year and she has decided to fast?

This time of year it is common to have snakes refuse to eat.

If you feed larger prey, the snakes will eat less often. If she ate well on a 10 day schedule, then feed her every ten days.

How long have you had her? What type of enclosure? How are you measuring temps and humidity? How are you heating it and is it on a thermostat?

If you've had the snake for years and it just now started refusing to eat, it's most likely not the enclosure but the more frequent feedings, in addition to the time of year. But it never hurts to double check husbandry just in case.

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

This time of year it is common to have snakes refuse to eat.

If you feed larger prey, the snakes will eat less often. If she ate well on a 10 day schedule, then feed her every ten days.

How long have you had her? What type of enclosure? How are you measuring temps and humidity? How are you heating it and is it on a thermostat?

If you've had the snake for years and it just now started refusing to eat, it's most likely not the enclosure but the more frequent feedings, in addition to the time of year. But it never hurts to double check husbandry just in case.

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Thank you

I got her at the beginning of October just after her shed, she is in a wooden vivarium and it is being heated by a combination of a ceramic bulb in a cage during the day and a heat mat overnight, both are controlled by thermostats. I have thermometers and hydrometer in the vivarium but I also have a gadget that I point in the tank to make sure my other in tank measurers are still working fine. She is on coconut fibre substrate and has two hides and a large water bowl.

I did up the size of her rats too just before she stopped eating and I’ve since gone a size down.

Other than this reluctance to eat and refusal to strike she is healthy and happy enough. She spends most of her time in her hides and tends to have a little wander in the middle of the night around 3am.




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