off food?

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Originally Posted by logomaster

my female sometime do the same thing.i dont think it because of gender.try check your setup again,n if nothing wrong but she still dont eat,bring your snake to the vet.

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The setup is perfect.

I have no herp vets here...just general vets.

It doesn't seem physically ill at all...it seems to be a psychological problem, almost like PTSD.

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Originally Posted by LGray23

I'd say there may be an issue of stress then for her to go off feed...

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I agree.

I have successfully rehabilitated so many rescue Dobes [and other breeds] with 'issues' that I've lost count but 'shrinking' a snake is beyond my abilities.

Snakes don't have the mental capability to be stressed other than something in it's enclosure being not correct. You can't compare a snake to a dog, if you describe your set up again maybe I can help...

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Originally Posted by LGray23

Snakes don't have the mental capability to be stressed other than something in it's enclosure being not correct. You can't compare a snake to a dog, if you describe your set up again maybe I can help...

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20 gal. tank with "Lucylid", UTH/thermostat, 2 identical hides.
Hot side 85-90/cool side 75-77/humidity 50-55% unless shedding.
Occasional use of "moon glow" overhead lamp at night.
Ample water bowl.
Same "Repti-carpet" as always.
Tank is blacked out except for front, same as always.
Basically, she just came home and went back to her own house.
At the herp shop, she was in a wall unit with five solid walls/clear front with her hide and water bowl brought from home.

I know dogs don't equal snakes and that's why I'm baffled as what to do next.
They are SO not like dogs at all....:confused:

The only variable was that hubby screwed up and put her in the tank with my normal female for the 15 minutes it took me to go upstairs and change clothes which did stress my normal terribly but she's fine, now.
I washed all her stuff and when the 'stinky intruder' odor was gone, she reverted back to her normal, mellow self.

The Fire was just wandering about, wondering why "her house" smelled "funny", it seemed.

Once put in her familiar home, she settled down fairly quickly but there's still the eating problem.

Keep ambient temps over 78 and they will eat better. Most rooms get way too cold in the winter and cause fasting.

Yup, I agree, it sounds like Salamander's temps are a bit low. You need to bump your temps up to 90-92 hot side and 80-82 cool side with an ambient temp somewhere between.

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Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle

Keep ambient temps over 78 and they will eat better. Most rooms get way too cold in the winter and cause fasting.

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The ambient is usually 81.

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Originally Posted by AK907

Yup, I agree, it sounds like Salamander's temps are a bit low. You need to bump your temps up to 90-92 hot side and 80-82 cool side with an ambient temp somewhere between.

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I just bumped up the thermometer a frog hair.

Weird thing is, unless they've just eaten, every one of my snakes habitually hang out on their cool sides and except for the head case Fire, they eat like hogs.

[well, the male Spider technically hides under the newspaper right dead in the middle of both sides but he's kinda..um..."special']

What if I moved their cool side hides over, more towards the middle to "make" them keep themselves warmer?

What are you using to measure your temperatures with?

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

What are you using to measure your temperatures with?

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:gj:

And where are you measuring your temps at?