Re: Still not eating...losing weight
You may not know 100 but you know your balls Adam! :D
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
I thought I've been doing everything right. She's got a hide on each end in a 20gal tank. Red lamp for heat. Easy access to water dish. Substrate is paper towels. She's been burying herself in it lately, in her warm hide. She was climbing the walls quite often last month but has since settled down.
Not sure of age, approx 6 months. She was a pet store purchase. Unsure of sex.
She was eating 1 mouse every 7 days (f/t) since I bought her. Switched to rats shortly after and she was eating every 5-7 days unless in shed up until 7 weeks ago. Each rat/mouse was as large as her girth. I offered them with tongs and she'd strike immediately and eat within 10 or 15 min. She'll only eat brown/black rats. If they have any white on them she won't touch them. She used to gain about 60g a month, gained 18g last month and lost a few this month.
I'm still new to this so if there's anything I've missed, please ask.
She was at the vet about 2 months ago and got a clean bill of health, including a fecal.
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
If she is in a tank with a screen lid and a heat lamp, I'm not sure how you are keeping good humidity levels.
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
I keep her in my turtle room which has a 125gal tank in there and that keeps the humidity up in the entire room. I also provide a humid hide and mist the tank to bump it up a bit during shed.
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
My guess would be that she's too cool and from what you've described, possibly overfed.
-adam
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
A question and a suggestion...
How often are you trying to feed her now? Quite often when a Ball goes off feed, their owner will offer food more often which will actually stress out your snake even more and continue the fasting.
Wait a week without handling your snake at all, then place a live rat pup in his cage about an hour after sunset. You can leave it in there overnight if you'd like.
Good luck!
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
I haven't handled her in a few weeks besides cleaning the tank and such.
Before trying to feed last week, I waited about 2 weeks since the last time.
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704
Are you feeding it a prey item as large as the biggest part of the snake? Try feeding smaller, sometimes snakes can become intimidated by larger prey. Do you currently feed p/k, f/t or what? Feeding live is nowhere near as bad as some people make it out to be. What are your temps like?
i got absolutely TORN apart on rtb.net for feeding live
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Originally Posted by bchapman
i got absolutely TORN apart on rtb.net for feeding live
they are all nuts there. I try not to ask advice from there. That tends to be a bandwagon site, where one person says something and all the others jump on. There is one main person who is anti-live feeding and it is all because of a rescue BCi she got that was all torn up. Most likely the previous owner left the snake alone with an oversized prey for days, and did not feed properly.
Re: Still not eating...losing weight
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Originally Posted by bchapman
i got absolutely TORN apart on rtb.net for feeding live
It's a shame that in a day when 8 out of every 10 Americans when polled say that they would have absolutely no problem if exotic pets (including reptiles and amphibians) were unilaterally banned on a federal level that we are so divided within our own community over something as simple as how an individual chooses to responsibly feed their own animals.
Nice.
-adam
