If your ball isnt eating look at this!

Take it easy on the guy.... he's happy he found something that works with his finicky eaters and wants to share... I know I'm very happy when all my little guys eat :gj:

I too don't see how this method could work, but I am interested to see it in action....

So i say video it and stick it up so we can see :gj:

I'm going to take a stab at this one. I think it is the warm water.

But,

I had a guy that bought a boa from me at a show. The boa was over a year old and I knew it was a good feeder. Well, he called me and the thing would not eat, I told him some things to try, and we talked about all his temps and what nots.
Still not eating. It was now going on two and a half months. I told him to bring it back up to me and I would get if feeding again. He drove 2 hours up to us and left it with one of my boys in his tub with clean coconut mulch mixed with aspen. I took him to the QT room and tried a live small rat, then a large mouse. Left him alone for a week and tried again. Nothing. I didn't like the smell of the coco mulch so I pulled the snake out after forgetting it with a mouse over night (not a good thing) put the boa and the mouse in one of my tubs with just aspen in it and walked away. 10 min later the snake was done eating. Moral of this long story, the snake didn't recognize the sent of the food with the strong smell of the coco husk fiber.

I was thinking it is either the warm water that stimulates them (even though the hot spot in their tubs is like 92 degrees or it might even be the streching out that stimulates them

Honestly, I think this was just a fluke.

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Originally Posted by reptidude1

Hey im just tring to help you wanna call it bs then thats your loss it worked for me and if it doesnt work for you then thats your problem but it might work for other people. But i think calling it bs i completely rude when my intention is to just help people, because i dont know about you but i have better things to do then post lies on fourms so this worked for me and if you wanna call it bs then i dont care it might help other people.

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why are you you getting offended, im calling the method bs, its not a personal attack. I think it was just a fluke also. feel free to prove me wrong tho.

I think a video would be beneficial. It may be a fluke but I'm not going to call you out on it until I see some proof one way or the other. The way I see it, it is not causing the snakes any harm and the snakes have eaten. So this "technique" has only been positive. Whether or not it actual works and the snakes are feeding DUE TO the warm bath is still up in the air, but again, there is no harm being done to the snakes and he is not presenting this as fact, just stating his experience and is putting the information out there IN CASE it may be helpful to someone else. It is not like he is saying "Hey I threw my snake off a cliff and when I went down to get it, it ate!." There is no harm being done and as long as the snake is not in danger, I see no harm in his feeding technique.