stopped eating :confused:

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Originally Posted by loonunit

It'll take several months of not eating for her to lose 25% of her current weight. She'll be fine. Don't do anything extreme until then....

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it going on 3 week now but only 10 days since the last offering, and she's very activeduring the night and afternoons so she not getting sluggish.

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Originally Posted by sniper

i was going to give another week and then take her to my vets to get her weight 3 week ago she was over 1lb. and
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Does your vet charge you for a weight? You can save a lot of time and energy purchasing a digital food processing scale at Wal-Mart (or any department store for that matter) for less than $20. Most will have a gram setting and weight up to 5,000g which will be enough for 99.9% of ball pythons. They are very handy to have around.

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Originally Posted by AK907

Does your vet charge you for a weight? You can save a lot of time and energy purchasing a digital food processing scale at Wal-Mart (or any department store for that matter) for less than $20. Most will have a gram setting and weight up to 5,000g which will be enough for 99.9% of ball pythons. They are very handy to have around.

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no my vet does not charge for a weight check

Have you tried to offer at night? Our adult female we saved from a pet store and she's a horror eating... when she isn't shedding shell strike a medium rat any time of the day, she just wont take it. We've had her 7 months and she's only ate twice. You shouldn't have anything to worry about with yours going on this little strike. And I agree, purchase a digital scale. You know, unless you vet lives next door. Lol good luck getting her to eat!

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Originally Posted by zeion97

Have you tried to offer at night? Our adult female we saved from a pet store and she's a horror eating... when she isn't shedding shell strike a medium rat any time of the day, she just wont take it. We've had her 7 months and she's only ate twice. You shouldn't have anything to worry about with yours going on this little strike. And I agree, purchase a digital scale. You know, unless you vet lives next door. Lol good luck getting her to eat!

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yea we feed her at night only she seems to eat better in low light, and yes i realy need to get a scale cause winter is setting in up here

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Originally Posted by sniper

it going on 3 week now but only 10 days since the last offering, and she's very activeduring the night and afternoons so she not getting sluggish.

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Three weeks is nothing for a Ball Python, so don't stress out... I have one (adult) girl who went 9 MONTHS without feeding, ate for a few months, and then fasted for another 6 months. She's still fine, in fact she gave me a beautiful clutch of 5 babies in September - and now she is eating like a pig. :D

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Originally Posted by Lolo76

Three weeks is nothing for a Ball Python, so don't stress out... I have one (adult) girl who went 9 MONTHS without feeding, ate for a few months, and then fasted for another 6 months. She's still fine, in fact she gave me a beautiful clutch of 5 babies in September - and now she is eating like a pig. :D

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thanks everyone for the support, she had a mouse last night took her 3 hours to get it , norarl time for a rat in under 5 minutes but this is a start

she just went on a diet for 3 week and now she's back to normal , but now she's into the blueing of the shed so about 10 days from now she'll eat again.

and thanks to everyone for their input and help

i put her little and i do mran little she can't hardly fit into it but when she does its off the ground and sh's hanging out of both sides, she went on a hunger strike until she got her fav hide back. she now eats two 85gr to 125gr rat a week, she weighs 1.45lb and she's 6 1/2 months old.when she get hungery she goes on the prowl during the day and night then we wait a day the feel, the last rat took less then two minutes. :)

weell i want to thank everyone for there input and help
Sniper