How long has your bp gone off feed for?

My Female BP is 995 grams right now and has just started skipping meals - its been sorta sporadic for about the past 6 weeks but so far its been two weeks since she has eaten anything - don't know what this week will bring.

At what point do you start to offer different food like going from F/T to live or going from Rats back to mice??? I don't want to confuse her further or turn her off to food even further by changing things up - what do you all suggest.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Alice

She is over 4000 grams and healthy so I try not to worry too much.

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Okay, I'm still a newbie, but how big in grams can these guys get? I've heard the most here so far 2000g, but 4000?...

I had 2 07 girls do that to me last winter, go off food right around the 1000 gram mark. One was at 950 grams and the other at 1150 grams. Both are back on food though.

I still got a couple males that haven't figured out breeding season is over yet ... lol. They both have healthy size though, so i am not too worried about it.

As for other hunger strikers, i had a pastel ball python that was off food when i got him for a couple months already. He went another 6 months without before finally taking a live mouse. He was consistent after that though, never missed a meal.

Robin
H2 Exotics

My male never misses a meal, on the other hand my female went at leat 3 weeks without eating

I have a big normal girl who isn't eating. She locked with my 100% het pied male at the end of February (this was before we went and got actual pieds, we were going to hold back her daughters and breed them back to the 100% het if she did lay eggs), and she stopped eating a month ago. I do not think she is knocked up, though. I don't know what her deal is. We're going to take her to the vet this week to be sure.

About 3 weeks. Just long enough to shed!

i had my two balls off feeding for 3 weeks. 1 of them just wouldn't eat and the other escaped for 3 weeks.they both never refused a meal before and both cases were a little odd:)

our male whos about 9 months old has gone off feed for about a month and a week...so far...i thought he was gonna eat the other day but he decided he didn't wanna...so its the waiting game. We offer him a small mouse every week to see if he wants to eat or not...

what does every1 use to get there bp to start eating again last year when i started trying to get my normal male to start eating again he would refuse a rat but would tear a gerbil up then he would start eating rats again and also does any1 else use coco bark for substrate.

My oldest male went over 8 months. To the above poster: I use repti-bark. BPs can be finicky eaters; the same male that didn't eat for 8 months prefers mice over rats. You could try scenting rats with gerbils and that might help to keep him on rats.