Slow feeding python.

My snake is very chill and it eats slowly. I do not get the strong feeding response but the result is satisfactory because she eats every week.

My snake ate a mouse on the first day I did the zombie dance and she struck at it and then ate the mouse, she did not wrap around it like the ones in the 8ball videos. This next week I put the mouse in there and did the zombie dance. She watched very interested and when the show was over she went back in to her hide. I left the mouse on the floor of the tub and she ate it slowly after about an hour.

I wonder if she is a little stressed out still because of the new surroundings. I do not handle her much but there have been some changes made to her habitat to fine tune her living conditions.

Any thoughts?

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Originally Posted by the bull

My snake is very chill and it eats slowly. I do not get the strong feeding response but the result is satisfactory because she eats every week.


Any thoughts?

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You say she's 'chill,' meaning cold?:confused:
What's the temps on the warm and cool sides of her cage? Maybe she doesn't have a strong feeding response because she's not warm enough. Do you feed f/t mice? If so are they thawed fully? Maybe if you fed her live she'd be more eager to hunt...not sure about this though. How old is your snake?

As long as the snake continues to eat, I wouldn't be concerned.

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Originally Posted by Oroborous

You say she's 'chill,' meaning cold?:confused:
What's the temps on the warm and cool sides of her cage? Maybe she doesn't have a strong feeding response because she's not warm enough. Do you feed f/t mice? If so are they thawed fully? Maybe if you fed her live she'd be more eager to hunt...not sure about this though. How old is your snake?

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Not temp chill attitude chill....:cool:
F/T fully thawed and even warm and fluffed with hair dryer.
These thawed rats look like they just went to sleep!

Oh, okay, well, like Icatsme said. As long as your snake continues to eat no worries right?;)

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Originally Posted by Oroborous

Oh, okay, well, like Icatsme said. As long as your snake continues to eat no worries right?;)

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Now that I have had her for awhile she snaps them up!
Must have been a little stressed from the settling in.
:gj: