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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by Crazymonkee
No problem
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So one question,a fuzzy or pup can't live 4-5 days without its mom,cause I feed my snakes every 4-5 days
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My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by coreydelong
I feed live.
I don't have the time to dance F/T rats in front of 80 snakes, nor do most breeders with a decent sized collection. The natural instinct of these animals is far from gone just because you put them in a rack.
A tame house cat will still kill a live mouse and eat it.....
A lot of very large breeders with hundreds and even thousands of animals feed f/t. Even though the usually have workers to help, but it's still possible to feed a very large collection f/t. It's just more convenient for some to buy a bunch of f/t feeders in bulk to put in a freezer than caring for a whole colony of rodents that need constant maintenance. So it's just a matter of what works best for you and your animals. Sometimes it's easier for some to feed live and for some to feed f/t. :) and if we acquire or produce an animal that will only eat live than we should be willing to fulfill its needs :)
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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by NYHC4LIFE8899
So one question,a fuzzy or pup can't live 4-5 days without its mom,cause I feed my snakes every 4-5 days
No. They need milk to drink. They would stave before you could feed them.
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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by NYHC4LIFE8899
So one question,a fuzzy or pup can't live 4-5 days without its mom,cause I feed my snakes every 4-5 days
Nope you'd have a bunch of starved dead babies. They need milk everyday.
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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
How did the breeder or person you got her from feed her? Methods or steps? Have you tried that.
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What size prey are you feeding? I'm pretty sure my first feed to my pewter was rejected because it was too small. I tried with a 12 day old pinky (that the breeder gave me), and it was a no go, but I tried 2 days later with a fuzzy and she took it no problem. Have you tried leaving the f/t prey in there over night? Maybe right in front of the hide? I was planning to do that if she refused the second time on advice of people here, but I never actually tried it. It might be time to at least offer at least one live feed though. Whatever you chose to do next, I wish you luck.
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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by Monty the BP
How did the breeder or person you got her from feed her? Methods or steps? Have you tried that.
I got her during a pet convention, so things were pretty chaotic. I didn't get the chance to get all the details, he just said that she had been eating about every 5 days since her hatching. He failed to mention whether it was live or not and I failed to ask :(
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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by Shera
What size prey are you feeding? I'm pretty sure my first feed to my pewter was rejected because it was too small. I tried with a 12 day old pinky (that the breeder gave me), and it was a no go, but I tried 2 days later with a fuzzy and she took it no problem. Have you tried leaving the f/t prey in there over night? Maybe right in front of the hide? I was planning to do that if she refused the second time on advice of people here, but I never actually tried it. It might be time to at least offer at least one live feed though. Whatever you chose to do next, I wish you luck.
Hey Shera!
I thought it was bad to leave F/T in the cage to long for the risk of growing bacteria? Assuming that the snake did not end up eating it by the end of the night. I am trying to feed her Hopper Mice. They are maybe a mm smaller than the largest diameter of her body. So they seem to be the right size. And like I said before, she has eaten 1, in the last 5 weeks. I just can't get her to do it again.
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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by BloodStar
Hey Shera!
I thought it was bad to leave F/T in the cage to long for the risk of growing bacteria? Assuming that the snake did not end up eating it by the end of the night. I am trying to feed her Hopper Mice. They are maybe a mm smaller than the largest diameter of her body. So they seem to be the right size. And like I said before, she has eaten 1, in the last 5 weeks. I just can't get her to do it again.
You could try a small adult mouse. They prey should be equal to or a lil larger than the widest part of the snake, or you could try a rat pup equivalent to the size of a small mouse. It may have been started on rats and may not recognize the mouse as food
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Re: My BP Won't eat :(
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Originally Posted by Crazymonkee
You could try a small adult mouse. They prey should be equal to or a lil larger than the widest part of the snake, or you could try a rat pup equivalent to the size of a small mouse. It may have been started on rats and may not recognize the mouse as food
Well that could be true...I'll see what I can find for rats and maybe go that route. Thank you for the info
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