Sounds like this is live feeding. Was the rat pretty large. Some snakes until they get use to it shy away from rats especially if it is moving around quickly and coming toward the snake. And worse since this is a new environment. I would feed every 7 days being the soonest even if it was refused. Wait 7 days and try feeding a live adult mouse or two. Or maybe you want to try frozen thawed rat that is around 50 grams. But my experience is if he isn't interested in a live adult mouse he just is not interested in eating right now. Has he been eating live or frozen/thawed (warmed up ) ? If you use a live rat try to get one about the size of a huge mouse. 80 grams or less was a good idea stated by Deborah.
He was eating small rats every 7 days. I put a very small rat in the cage. I will try again next wee .
04-16-2017, 12:16 AM
cchardwick
I wouldn't sweat it at all since it's a 1500 gram male five years old. He could probably go for months without food and still maintain a good body condition. I currently have 20 snakes, the good thing about having so many snakes is that when I try to feed one and it doesn't eat I use that food item for the next snake, nothing gets wasted. I use fresh killed though, so if this is your only snake you may end up having to take care of the uneaten live rats, and they may grow to a size that's a bit too big for the snake, or have to take them back to the pet store.
I find that many of my new snakes, especially if they are older, will go off of food because of their change in environment. It may take months before they start to eat again, that's really no big deal and completely normal. I had a male Australian Woma python that went off of feed for four straight months after I got him and one day just decided to start slamming rats again LOL. I've since sold him because I decided not to breed Womas, but he was a really cool snake. I actually bought him because the photo of him was photo shopped, I thought he was a brighter orange and it turned out to be pretty normal looking when I got him.
