Only eating when food left in cage and roaming at night

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Originally Posted by pbyeerts

Are you talking about a f/t rat being left in overnight? Because leaving a live rat in with your BP unsupervised can be disastrous for your snake. Just checking.........


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Haha yes, it's f/t. I have never fed live

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Ok, good!


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I guess as long as she is eating and hiding in the day there is nothing to worry about

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Originally Posted by themorganator4

I guess as long as she is eating and hiding in the day there is nothing to worry about

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Nope. She's fine. I have a few like that. Open enclosure, leave food on hide, close enclosure, the food is eaten sometime in the middle of the night.

My ball has to have it very quiet and dark and, even then, sometimes I just leave it for her to eat later (as she feels comfortable). My boa knows when it is coming and is ready to come out of his enclosure to rip it out of my hands. I guess I should feed him more often but I have a feeling that he would do that everyday - such a little piggy! Last week he got the tongs and all. He was halfway out, head up in the air, periscoping and nailed the tongs and rat in mid air. Later I had to remove the tongs from around his body.

I have an adult female over 2000g and she won't eat unless the lights are off and I'm not there. If I turn off all the lights and come back 10 min later , the rat is always gone!

I have a very specific arrangement with my pied. I am to arrive alone, deposit the ASF at the specified location (the door of her hide), make myself scarce, and no one gets hurt.

"Let's not do anything rash now! There's no need to refuse... we can work this out! Look, I'm leaving now..." *Backs away slowly*

Honestly, sometimes the only reason I know she's alive is because the ASFs disappear.