Just got a baby BP who wont eat, I think its normal, but need conformation

Right, so its my luck that the info I mention from a caresheet is wrong? lol I wish I could feed live. Thats all my other snake ate.

Anyway live isnt an option for me anyway, and Id rather not have to justify it. You guys will try to poke holes through it

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Originally Posted by whyteboi

Right, so its my luck that the info I mention from a caresheet is wrong? lol I wish I could feed live. Thats all my other snake ate.

Anyway live isnt an option for me anyway, and Id rather not have to justify it. You guys will try to poke holes through it

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Feeding P/K or F/T is perfectly fine I have three that will take a hot dog if I try to give it to them. Trying to get it started on P/k or f/T is possiable maybe more diffecult but possiable.

what is f/t and p/k?

pk is pre killed im guessing

no idea on ft, been trying to figure it out last 3 weeks but I am pretty sure something like fresh killed?

Yup


p/k = pre killed

f/t = frozen/thawed



dr del

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1. I am probably not going to offer live until a month or necesary. Ive learned that if your snake doesnt want it, and the mouse walks around the snake, the snake will be stressed and not eat, and dead will stay still, and snake can choose when to eat it with no worries about it stressing them out. This is what I have read on dozens of caresheets that all of you assumed I have not read.

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Ok here I am not trying to tell you what to feed in the long run, because that will be your choice most importantly the one of your BP, I am trying to get your BP to start eating for you.

Live will stimulate your BP, while F/T is fine, if a BP has never taken F/T or never have had a successful meal with you then you need to get him to start and chances how it will not work with F/T or P/K.

I feed all my BP F/T however before I ever switched any of them to F/T I made sure there were successfully eating with me at least 3 consecutive times, once they did I tried switching, some were very easy some took a little longer in the end they all did, however some never will and as a responsible owner you MUST be prepared to feed whatever work for your BP.

Get your BP to start eating then try switching but right now your priority is to get him started.

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Anyway live isnt an option for me anyway

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And sometimes P/K or F/T is not an option for the snake (some will just not take it), so what will you do in that case, let him starve to death because it is not an option for YOU :confused:

Well in all honesty, the snake was 3 times more interested in the FT then the fuzzy. That could be because of the time/day/temp/humid/ect but im not gonna start worrying until I have to, in like 3 weeks.

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im not gonna start worrying until I have to, in like 3 weeks.

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So its not eating now, in an improper tank, and your not gonna worry till you "have" too... :(


I'm curious, what is gonna have to happen in order for you to "have" to worry. If something is wrong you should worry just cause its your pet and in your control, you shouldn't worry cause you HAVE to.

Also, you have pics of your tank and its current setup?

So If I get the situation right after all those posts, you have an unstarted BP, apparently no previous experience on starting an hatchling of get a problem feeder to eat, not willing to listen to experienced people, and will start worrying about what you called

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This thing

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in about 3 weeks.

:eek: All I can come up with right now is :disbelief :tricho: http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...icons/Wall.gif.

Look, the guy on 8 ball doesnt even change his strategy until week 2 or 3 AFTER the shed. He doesnt force feed until week 7. Im pretty sure he knows what hes doing, seeing as he goes through more babies a year then most BP owners will go through in their life.

I always see snakes going off feed for 5 months, and people saying "your more stressed then the snake"

The snake deficated, meaning theres some nutrition inside of him, so theres really no reason for me to be worried. Every site I have read says not to be worried until after 2 or so months. I realize I have a baby, BUT I HAVE A PLAN TO FIX THIS.