Heating advice

Just keep tabs on its weight. If it is losing a lot of weight in a short amount of time then there is probably a health problem. Your not even close to needing to force feed, there is plenty of other options before you even consider doing that. You may have to switch to a small tub. Just keep offering once a week or even wait 2 weeks. Are you feeding the same prey and type as it was being fed before you bought I?

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Also make sure to leave the snake alone except for spot cleaning and changing water.

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Originally Posted by chrid16371

Just keep tabs on its weight. If it is losing a lot of weight in a short amount of time then there is probably a health problem. Your not even close to needing to force feed, there is plenty of other options before you even consider doing that. You may have to switch to a small tub. Just keep offering once a week or even wait 2 weeks. Are you feeding the same prey and type as it was being fed before you bought I?

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Yep. Frozen thawed size small. According to her feed record she was eating at least two of those once every five days.

F/t small rats?? How do you prepare them?

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F/t small rats?? How do you prepare them?

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Small mice. Most recently i set it out to thaw and once thawed warmed it slightly with a heat gun on low.

Small mice are way to small. I would go to large. My 336g female can eat 2 large mice in one meal. Make sure to heat the head of the rat up around 100 while blowing the smell into the cage.

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Small mice are way to small. I would go to large. My 336g female can eat 2 large mice in one meal. Make sure to heat the head of the rat up around 100 while blowing the smell into the cage.

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Yea i know theyre too small but i had already purchased a box of them when i picked her up since thats the size they were last feeding her. Likely why they have her 2 or three at a time. As ive already thrown out 4 of the 6 ill bump up a size for the next box. Course size is moot if she wont eat. I had even tried giving her live one time with a bigger mouse. She wasnt having it.

You may just have to move to a smaller tub. Try feeding ever 2 weeks and see if it takes a meal, if it does go back to a week.

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Well it only took over six weeks, and 40 grams worth of lost weight but she finally fed!!!!. Went into a shed at the end of june/start of july which obviously delayed things. Hopefully she eats steady from here on out. Ended up going live too. just didnt have any luck getting her to take thawed.