How long has your bp gone off feed for?

i have had 2off feed since january and both were around 700 grams and now are 680.identical loss of weight.kinda weird.my younger ones are now catching up.within 4 more weeks all my snakes will be the same size.trippy!

My male and female have never been off feed, I give them mice every 9-10 days and they always eat. My male is 2.5 years old and the female is almost 3 years in june

my w.c have gone 8 months with no food

Lennie has been off since november... annoying, but he did the same thing last year when i first got him. not too stressed about it though

My pastel male takes 2-3 months off of food every breeding season I also have a normal female who took 4 months off this year. All the others feed all the time.

I have an 08 male that just ate today for the first time in 2 months. I was starting to get a little worried, but I've offered him food every week along with the others, frozen/thawed rat/mouse.

A year... wow. I would be pretty scared.

My girl has eaten 2 mice (she's always eaten sm-med rats until now... BPs are so finicky!) in the past 4 months. But she's always been picky; won't take f/t (:mad:), skips meals now and then, but this is her first fast. I guess it's just that time of year.

If you're worried about your BP, you could take a fecal sample (if you have one) to a vet and check for parasites.

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Originally Posted by van_garret2000

Yeah i always hear "as long as they don't lose weight". What are you supposed to do if they lose weight?

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you could assess the husbandry and current health of the animal and determine a course of action such as husbandry correction or a vet visit.

Looks mine is in the majority he is going on about 6 months now. He looks interested but nothing I have been trying every-other week and no luck yet. I am not worried tho my other whent 9 months one time. I do however get a kick out of people that come in where I get my rats. They come in kinnda freaking out saying " My snake has not eatin in like 3 weeks" in a frantic tone.

mine has finally started eating again after 5 months. last year I ended up offering frozen/thawed fuzzy mice, which got him eating when regular sized mice just seemed to scare him.
that trick worked again this year, though it took about 3 weeks of offering fuzzies before he finally took one.
Once he gets something in his stomach though, he'll eat just about anything immediately. I followed the fuzzy with a large mouse and he took it like a champ.