If it stops eating all of a sudden is a good sign.
09-26-2006, 08:12 AM
Freakie_frog
Re: stress
Correct Joe. they will quit eating or regurgitate, They will tend to be restless roaming in the day time. Hissing, striking, Losing weight all can be signs of stress. But they can be signs of a medical medical problem as with the not eating, regurg, loosing weight, poor sheding. And some can just be your snakes personality i.e hissing, striking, roaming at odd times seeming restless.
This is why proper setup is so important. Proper set up lowers the risk that your snake will get stressed from enviromential stimulai. And will help you better pin point what is behavioraly caused, what is medical and what is stress.
For example if your snake is say a year old and eating good never hissed and you change his tank setup say you move to bigger hides cause you think he has out grown them. And when feeding comes he refuses to eat first time in a year. Now when you go to pick him up he hisses and balls up. See he's not feeling safe with the bigger hides and inreturn you get hisses and not eating.
That was a broud example.
Hope this helps.
09-27-2006, 12:24 AM
ddbjdealer
Re: stress
I'm not sure I agree with the hissing/striking being signs of a stressed animal. I like it when my snakes hiss and strike at me.... to me, it just means that they're VERY comfortable in their enclosures, or in their hides.... and if you bother them and they lash out at you... that doesn't seem like a sign of stress to ME.... I think its a sign that they WERE comfortable, and YOU stressed them by going into their environment... once you leave them alone again, then they usually settle back down.
I would say that lack of eating regularly, or especially regurges are the biggest signs of a stressed animal.
