Re: Got the new snakes - help
No worries. Keep doing what you are doing and he will eat when he is ready. Keep your husbandry dead on and keep offering food once a week. Good luck!
Re: Got the new snakes - help
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Originally Posted by lars5277
Well I have had these guys for almost a month now. Pedros shots have been done for a week or more right now. He still hasn't eaten. He is in a shed right now, but I don't have problems with other snakes eating in a shed. I feed once a week and they all know it except for the two new guys and they will learn. I have offered Pedro a F/T every week since I had him. This week I offered him a live rat. I left it in the cage for 20 min and he completely ignored it. I know a month isn't uncommon. It just bugs me that I have 7 other snakes feeding like clock work.
I know he has a lot of stress going on.
1. New home (I am about his 5th home in 4 yrs).
2. Separated for the first time in his life (I know this is supposed to be good for him).
3. Baytril injections.
4. Skin treatmeants.
5. Frequent handlings because of the Baytril and skin treatments.
I know he has been through a lot, but I am still frustrated. I probably shouldn't be, I know I have gone a long way to help him be a happy and healthy snake. Maybe next week he will feed for me. I am sure he was fed live in the past so I will stick to that route to keep him feeding. This is probably more than a rant than anything else. I know I am doing everything right and just need to wait for the snake to come around.
Best advice that Adam gave me when I got my adult girl - leave her alone for four weeks before attempting to feed her. I "caved" after three weeks, but she got a nice long time to feel secure in her new home and fed immediately when I offered her, her first meal.
Today is feeding day, and her second small rat with me. Poor little bugger headed straight for her hide when he was set in her enclosure and she struck almost immediately (less than 5 seconds after he went into the hide with her).
I don't know if it has anything to do with the long acclimation period with no handling other than routine maintenance - but I have to believe that it most likely gave her time to feel safe and build up an appetite.
I've moved Kashmire into a tub this past weekend in hopes that he will start to feed again soon. I think that I may well not try to feed him for three or four weeks, no handling and let him get used to the safety that the lower ceiling and the burrow type hides offer him. I did try to feed a hopper today to get his prey drive re-started and he refused again, so I think that a longer acclimation period to his new home is in order.
Good luck with that boy!
