Picky Picky Picky

Have you tried turning all of the lights off and leaving the room for around 30 minutes? That seems to help.

My production of ASFs fell behind when I went on spring break this year. I had a litter laid that week that I was leaving and the other mom was due to drop one of the days I would be gone. I was away from the house for a week and the turned the heat down to 60 degrees thinking it would be fine. I came back to nothing in the tub except the dad and the two moms. Both moms were normal looking (not golf ball sized like they were prior to me leaving). So I assume they killed all babies from the two litters. Since then, it's been hard to get back to my large numbers but recently it's been growing quickly.

And I usually feed late at night in the dark (between 10pm to 3am). I'll only feed around the 7th day IF she looks ready and willing to eat... AKA She's in her hide staring out waiting for the meal.

And there's no way I'll leave the room with a live ASF in her tub! Those suckers are fiesty and I'm an overly protective father to Daisy. ;)

Mitch, all of my adult girls are on adult mice. They are bulky, muscley girls. Mice work JUST fine. Just feed 2-3, which will equal a good 65-70g rat, with less fat. With her size, I would go for 1-2 at first, then bump up to 3 large mice.

My 06 YB female is around the 1000g mark. She quit eating in a 32qt tub and would only take one per feeding. Not a whole lot of a feeding response either. I moved her to a 15qt tub in the same rack, left her alone for 2 weeks and now she's pounding food like nobody's business. She ate what, 3-4 large adult mice 2 nights ago. She's happy as far as I can tell.

These teenage phases are a pain. Work with them and find a combo they like. Stop trying to feed her all the time. Try every 2 weeks if you want. Get a live mouse and leave it in with her, bump her down a tub size, put newspaper balls in the tub, raise temps... whatever.

And believe me, she'll get to 2000g or better on mice just as quickly as she will on rats. All of my snakes are on f/t large adult hairless mice and man they attack me. I just go in the snakeroom now with a hot bucket of 100 nekkid mice and they go nuts. Got bit just opening a tub(from the underside mind you).

My male is on his second feeding strike, (the reason I joined this website). I'm just gonna wait it out now that I know his husbandry is fine.

Silly snakes. :P

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

Mitch, all of my adult girls are on adult mice. They are bulky, muscley girls. Mice work JUST fine. Just feed 2-3, which will equal a good 65-70g rat, with less fat. With her size, I would go for 1-2 at first, then bump up to 3 large mice.

My 06 YB female is around the 1000g mark. She quit eating in a 32qt tub and would only take one per feeding. Not a whole lot of a feeding response either. I moved her to a 15qt tub in the same rack, left her alone for 2 weeks and now she's pounding food like nobody's business. She ate what, 3-4 large adult mice 2 nights ago. She's happy as far as I can tell.

These teenage phases are a pain. Work with them and find a combo they like. Stop trying to feed her all the time. Try every 2 weeks if you want. Get a live mouse and leave it in with her, bump her down a tub size, put newspaper balls in the tub, raise temps... whatever.

And believe me, she'll get to 2000g or better on mice just as quickly as she will on rats. All of my snakes are on f/t large adult hairless mice and man they attack me. I just go in the snakeroom now with a hot bucket of 100 nekkid mice and they go nuts. Got bit just opening a tub(from the underside mind you).

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Good idea. My female was on small rats for awhile before the hunger strike. But maybe she would be more inclined to go for a couple mice. I will try it when I get back home and let you all know if she eats.