My biggest problem feeder

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I have an albino girl that is a pain in the butt. She will only eat mice and its every two weeks. She could take a small rat or even two mice but she wont. I can't get her past 400 grams no matter what I try. Any suggestion out there?:confused:

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My Spider loves to eat and will eat whenever I offer him food. My normal girl sometimes just doesn't want to.

My normal is up to almost 1,700g now though, even being as picky as she is.
What I found worked was offering her a mouse and when she gulps it down, I rubbed a rat gently across her snout and she finally took it. They're F/T by the way.

I still have to feed her a mouse at first, but it's funky. After she eats the mouse, I offer her a rat and she gobbles it right up. I don't know why but hey as long as she's eating it's fine with me. She does go on an 'I don't feel like eating' binge every now and then for about 1-2 weeks but never for any extended periods of time.

Some BP's just won't get as big as others so maybe your BP is just destined to be a small one.

Congrats, you might have the first pygmy BP :D

Albinos are probably the pickiest eaters out there :(

Every snake is different. People say pieds are poor eaters and lazy breeders, mine eats like a horse and bred at 6 months old. I have picky spiders and an albino that will slap your momma for a rat.

Every snake is different


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Most of my snakes will gobble down ASF's but i have 2 big girls that will only eat frozen/thawed rats... they make my life difficult :(

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Albinos are probably the pickiest eaters out there :(

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:colbert: Absurd statement.... They are all different...

this guy use to be a great feeder when he was young. And he still has a stong nfeeding response he strikes when the rack is opened and he will take the ft rat and constrict it but then he just uncoils after a while and leaves it. I think im going to try some asf to see how he likes them

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Originally Posted by freakie_frog

i have picky spiders and an albino that will slap your momma for a rat.

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lol

If he is striking and constricting but not eating try moving the FT rat around once he has coiled, like a rat that is alive. I have ran into this and just found the snake gets disinterested after the strike and coil, and the 40 seconds of movement on the FT once its been coiled will keep the snake after it. Make sure the FT is very warm too, I put mine in zip lock bags and put them in a container with hot bath water 5 mins before trying to feed. The snakes that all exhibited this behavior are back to eating great for me, so maybe a stage in that 400 gram area. Just my thoughts. Most of my snakes started feeding less at 400 grams, not all though.

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Originally Posted by marct

:colbert: Absurd statement.... They are all different...

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Absurd huh, lol.
Ok, I should rewrite that for you.

In my experience owning and being around numerous albinos they tend to be pickier eaters.

my normal female is pretty picky... I feed her every week, just got to feeding her bigger mice. She took three, but it took her for ever to strike at the first by then I just give up and set the mouse down in the tank and wait for her to eat... (that was even after off feed for a shed cycle) But before that she was eating 2-3 hoppers... She could probably take even more adult mice but I thought they might be to big for her when I was buying them... I might have to move up to some kind of rats soon... (rodent pro? not sure what size)

our albino is alsow a very bad eater :mad:

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Originally Posted by Denial

this guy use to be a great feeder when he was young. And he still has a stong nfeeding response he strikes when the rack is opened and he will take the ft rat and constrict it but then he just uncoils after a while and leaves it. I think im going to try some asf to see how he likes them

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thats how my male spider was as a hatchling, but then when he got to about 6 months old he stopped and would eat anything

The only "trend" I've noticed for feeding tendencies with my own BPs is that the majority of my wild-types are and have always been monster feeders. Then again, I also generally won't even consider buying a wild-type unless she's never missed a meal on F/T rats. :rolleyes:

Never had a problem getting albinos to eat. Since this is the picture forum, :P here's a picture of my pickiest eater: the butter on the bottom. (The lesser, on top, is a boy, and loves food.) She's a year younger than him. :( She'll eat F/T rats, F/T mice, and live rats .... But only when she really feels like it.

I haven't had many BPs that like to "drop" their rats ... For me, that tends to be a male retic thing. :confused:

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my baby albino male hatched in june, will only eat when in a small shoe box, with a little more heat, but the pickest one is a mohav that will only eat mice but a lot of them 6-8 large ones.

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and an albino that will slap your momma for a rat.

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Rofl, wow

My normal was picky and a pain at first, now he is a very good eater. I got bored a couple days ago and wanted to see his reaction towards pre-scenting. I let a mouse thaw on top of his tank, a couple hours later I come back to see my snake standing straight up with his nose pressed against the top of his tank like, "gimmmee gimmmee!!!!"

My biggest problem eater is my male spider. When I first got him he would eat every week but then out of the blue he stops eating. 3 months go by and he refuses everything I try f/t, live I tried mice and nothing. He is around 600 grams so I figure he didnt get that big by not eating so I just stayed on the weekly feeding attempts but kept getting refused he wasn't intrested at all. I had him housed two tubs away from my 2300 gram female and I figured since he had never been bred and was still relativley small that this would not be a big deal. But after so many attempts to feed and wasting countless rats that I would move him into a different room, waited a week tried to feed him again he wouldn't strike from my hands like usual so I just leave it in his tub check on him a few hours later and its gone. That was last week so I am hoping that it wasn't just a fluke and he will continue to eat. Finger crossed.