Do any morphs tend to be pickier eaters than others???

My pieds and het are hogs.

My mojave is an impossibly picky eater.

I don't think morph has a thing to do with it.

36 days and he currently weighs 478g.

He weighed 372 on November 2, 2011.

He ate 4 mice in Dec., 4 mice in Jan., 1 mouse Feb 3 and that's it.

Nothing since.

Totally no interest at all.

He has come of out of his hide, sniffing around while I was feeding the other snakes but as soon as I offer him a mouse, he balls back up in his hide with his face at the back.

I've tried leaving F/T overnight, sitting where he can't see me while a live mouse ate food in his house and nothing happens.

Tried several different mouse sizes/colors and he doesn't 'do rats' at all.

I'm starting to suspect this is why he was for sale in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Salamander

36 days and he currently weighs 478g.

He weighed 372 on November 2, 2011.

He ate 4 mice in Dec., 4 mice in Jan., 1 mouse Feb 3 and that's it.

Nothing since.

Totally no interest at all.

He has come of out of his hide, sniffing around while I was feeding the other snakes but as soon as I offer him a mouse, he balls back up in his hide with his face at the back.

I've tried leaving F/T overnight, sitting where he can't see me while a live mouse ate food in his house and nothing happens.

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I think it's FAR too early to even consider assist feeding...of course I haven't seen the snake, but 36 days is more of a break than a hunger strike, IMO. My het pied male went off feed last year at 375 grams and didn't eat for 4+ months(not even nearly the longest I've gone through) and he was fine.

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Originally Posted by Salamander

Tried several different mouse sizes/colors and he doesn't 'do rats' at all.

I'm starting to suspect this is why he was for sale in the first place.

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What do you suspect is the reason? That he won't eat mice?? Did you ask before you bought?

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

I think it's FAR too early to even consider assist feeding...of course I haven't seen the snake, but 36 days is more of a break than a hunger strike, IMO. My het pied male went off feed last year at 375 grams and didn't eat for 4+ months(not even nearly the longest I've gone through) and he was fine.



What do you suspect is the reason? That he won't eat mice?? Did you ask before you bought?

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There are tons of threads on here about this contemptible snake.....LOL

The seller jumped up and offered to 'make me a great deal' before I even really got interested in it [yes, now I know to run away from sellers like that] and told me, before I paid, that the snake ate F/T because I asked if it did.
So, I bought him.
Later we went back to the seller to ask more questions and the story changed;
"he was in the process of switching all his snakes to F/T and the snake may have eaten F/T once but it was weeks ago and he couldn't remember".

Later on his Facebook page, he admitted that ALL his snakes eat live and have always done so.
[yes, I was a noob and got nailed for my ignorance...lesson learned]

Back in November, we tried to 'wait him out' to get him to eat F/T and the snake plainly showed that he would cheerfully starve to death first, so, back to live we went.
Then, he didn't want live, either.
Then he did but a feisty mouse scratched him and he became mouse-phobic.
Then I fed him a tiny helpless mouse and he ate that and got his confidence back for a month and a half and now he's being 'difficult' again.

Unfortunately for me, I do love the little twerp so I worry.

He is the worst reptile drama queen I've ever met.
That is reason #1 I do not want to further "traumatize his delicate psyche" by having him assist fed.

I know if that is done to him, he's going to be wanting crisis counseling, cognitive therapy and possibly psych meds, later on.

[yes, he really is that 'touchy']

I f I knew then what I know now, I'd have stuck with Boas.

Brom is out laying on his second level deck right now, after being in his hide for days because he thinks it's about time for him to have another rat.
[it's not, despite what he "thinks"]
Same with Dixie....she's poked out of her hide and watching me with those eyes every time I go past her condo.
You can just imagine her thinking "FEED ME!!!!"

There's no cajoling, pampering, 'faking out', worrying or tap dancing with the Boas.

I don't even have time to say "Hey...are you hun...." before the rat is snatched off the tongs so hard they get knocked out of my hand.

I love feeding my Boas.....:D

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Originally Posted by Salamander

There are tons of threads on here about this contemptible snake.....LOL

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I think I may have managed to miss every one of them...:oops:

My white snakes, that is my Pied female and my Ivory female, are very picky eaters...

My Pieds and Hets are all very sporadic feeders.

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

I think I may have managed to miss every one of them...:oops:

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You didn't miss much.

They were all "my stupid snake won't eat!" threads....:D

[now how novel is that, on BP net?]

LOL

My two albino's are very picky eaters. Every other one will eat anything and just about any time. My spiders and bumble bees are the best eaters and I think they would eat every day if I let them. I have a female pastel that's the same way.

But it's my drama queen albinos that give me problems. My female wouldn't eat last time until I turned the lights off.

My het pieds are horrible, hoorrible eaters.
Everyone else is great.