Small BP Not Feeding After Month SOS

As thin as she is, if she was mine I would probably offer her a live mouse and if she didn't eat that I would assist feed her a rat pink or mouse hopper (prekilled obviously). I believe there is a sticky on here with directions on how to assist feed.

Hi,

I agree with Firestorm - that is a lot more lateral skin lines than I was expecting to see.

I would try soaking her a little - use 85f water no deeper than half way up her body and supervise at all times. 15 minutes to half an hour should do it I think.

Can you get clear picture of the white flake looking things you mentioned?

Shedding does in deed cause skin folds but they tend to be from top to bottom when the snake bends not runnign the length of the animal.

And here is the sticky on assist feeding if it does come to that.

As an aside when offering dead prey you usually have to either do the zombie mouse dance or present it to the snake - only one of mine eats from the ground currently.

Have you increased the temp of her hotspot yet?


dr del

I think you should make a setup in a small curverbox, I think her house is too big.
You will need a hotspot as big as one third of the box and put in a small hidingplace where she just fits in. And a waterbowl.
The hotspot needs to be 33 degrees Celcius.

Put the setup in a dark room and leave her alone for a week or so.

Big chance she will eat again.

If you want to try f/t, try changing your substrate to paper towel or news paper and just set it barely outside her hide and leave the room. I've had mine take it easier this way even being the pickiest eater I own. Just make sure it's at least room temp or if possible heat the head up with a blow dryer on high heat for 3-5mins then set it down make sure the lights are out in the room too.

It could be a mix between a really shy snake and the moving when trying to feed that's causing it to not eat. The plus side of f/t is you can leave it in over night, just make sure to take it out in the morning before it starts to stink.

Hi,

When I used a substrate like bark I put a piece of slate on the top of it in front of the hides. When I offered F/T overnight for fussy eaters I would lay it on there.

And, since it was outside the hide in the "killing field" most of the time they struck from the hide they ended up eating on top of it then too. :)

It cut down on the amount of substrate they swallowed. Didn't completely eliminate it though as newspaper did.


dr del

Ive had luck with noneater by puting them in a plane small paper bag with a rat pup. And the other way has been said keep the temp up. And try a smaller inclosure.

Im about to go to new pet shop around here. Currently all i can find is full grown mice, and small rats but the rats are way too big for her. I Gave her a smaller hide the other day and i moved the heating lamp to where it is shining straight down into the cage. Would an UTH Be better? Truthfully I shouldn't have bout this particular snake and just waited and bought from a quality breeder. Lessons are learned hard sometimes, but im not giving up. If she doesn't eat the next time I am Going to try assist feeding her.