sigh....

Going to my iHerp is a bit depressing... and I feel like our dumpster is my personal small rat depository.

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Sigh... just looking for some sympathy or similar experiences from other owners of "blossoming" bp's. This girl stopped eating for 3 months in the spring... Then, I put her with a male thinking maybe THAT would spur her to eat. She ate ONCE after that, then stopped for another month and a half!! Husbandry is the same as my other two BP's in the same rack who are eating fine. She just... doesn't want to eat. Gah :taz: this girl drives me nuts... I feel like a nervous parent :rolleye2: But, she's lost only 50 grams in the last 2.5 months though, and she is now 1341 grams. I figure that means she's not starving at least...


Why is it that BP's sometimes just decide "hey I'm going to stop eating for a few months", don't they know it drives us all crazy? :rage:

How old is she?

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Originally Posted by Danounet

How old is she?

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I don't know for sure, but I think around 2.5 years old.

Pardon my ignorance, but where is that software available?

iherp is a website! www.iherp.com

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Originally Posted by Soterios

Pardon my ignorance, but where is that software available?

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Here: http://www.iherp.com/Welcome.aspx

I just started using it last month, and it's great!! To the OP, I feel your pain... Mona was a great eater for the first 6 weeks I had her, and then she just got picky (possibly due to my attempt at switching her to F/T). I guess as long as she's healthy, you just have to be patient... easier said than done, I know. ;)

Try a change of food. If she was eating rats, try mice. If she was eating live, try frozen. Believe it or not, I have a snake that has never eaten F/T (he is probably 4 years old). He was my last F/T hold out. Wouldn't touch warmed up rats or warmed up mice. What turned him was a thawed but still cold mouse. I can't say why but it worked. Sometimes change just spurs them to eat.

I wouldn't worry. I just had a male go off feed 9 months. He was about 1250 grams before hunger strike, and about 1050 when he finally fed. Eating really well now and is currently up to 1170 grams.

i had a female go off feed for a year, shes currently eating me out of house and home;)

I swear somewhere there's a weight watchers program for out pythons and they are all enrolled in the damned prograam. I think they all have weight gain issues like supermodels and that's what drives us nuts. I just wish I could find the network that contacts our pythons and convinces them a months long fasting diet is needed in order to keep their figures. :mad:

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Try a change of food. If she was eating rats, try mice. If she was eating live, try frozen. Believe it or not, I have a snake that has never eaten F/T (he is probably 4 years old). He was my last F/T hold out. Wouldn't touch warmed up rats or warmed up mice. What turned him was a thawed but still cold mouse. I can't say why but it worked. Sometimes change just spurs them to eat.

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I have tried mice and she won't touch them. Also, I give her the rats when they are warm, but they sit in her enclosure for awhile till they turn cold, and she won't eat either way. I am wary of trying live with her, first of all because I can't get live rats around here, but secondly I don't want another stubborn live eater who refuses to look twice at frozen. Last year she was pounding f/t rats :(

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Originally Posted by grim reaper in NY

I swear somewhere there's a weight watchers program for out pythons and they are all enrolled in the damned prograam. I think they all have weight gain issues like supermodels and that's what drives us nuts. I just wish I could find the network that contacts our pythons and convinces them a months long fasting diet is needed in order to keep their figures. :mad:

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She just needs a new self image and some self confidence!! :D

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Originally Posted by icygirl

She just needs a new self image and some self confidence!! :D

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try putting makeup on her. dont girls like that stuff?
LOL jk :P

I had one girl go off food for about 9 months. She was about 1500g when she stopped eating and 1400g when she started again. She went up to 2500g in 5 months and has not gone off food since. As long as she is not losing a lot of weight she should come around at some point.