300-ish: not eating, losing weight

Another update:

After the mice was rejected I left it in a small plastic container next to the snakes enclosure for almost a week. Fed the mice, of course. But let it get rather stinky... :D
I notice that the snake started to hang out of her hides more at night... Hmmm, I though. Let's drop the mice in and see...
BAM!
After a very careful tracing, the snake got the mice, killed within 10 sec and swallowed as fast.
I was ready to cry honestly. :oops:

So my plan now is:
get the mice 2-3 days earlier of the feeding day, let the mice permeate the air with its smell, feed the mice when the snake is out and about.
Hopefully I can replicate the earlier outcome. Fingers crossed.

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Originally Posted by shelpen

Another update:

After the mice was rejected I left it in a small plastic container next to the snakes enclosure for almost a week. Fed the mice, of course. But let it get rather stinky... :D
I notice that the snake started to hang out of her hides more at night... Hmmm, I though. Let's drop the mice in and see...
BAM!
After a very careful tracing, the snake got the mice, killed within 10 sec and swallowed as fast.
I was ready to cry honestly. :oops:

So my plan now is:
get the mice 2-3 days earlier of the feeding day, let the mice permeate the air with its smell, feed the mice when the snake is out and about.
Hopefully I can replicate the earlier outcome. Fingers crossed.

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That's great! Good luck feeding.

Another update:

We seemed to develop a nice little rhythm with Flora:
Mon (feeding day for everybody) she gets 1 live small mice
Thu she gets another one

Two key factors:
a) the mice should be as stinky as possible (the rest of the BP population of the room goes nuts almost every day because of the smell :D But it's kinda added bonus for me -- they stay outside the hides a lot!)
b) she has to be outside of her hide in "hunting mode" -- will not take it from the inside the hide :colbert:

So fussy! It's a mystery how she made it to 300g to begin with. :confusd: