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  • 12-22-2011, 08:52 AM
    DooLittle
    How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    Just curious. I have heard people talk about problem feeders, or say they will go on food strike during breeding season. So how long has anyone's gone on strike for? I don't know how to put up a poll, so if someone else does and wants to, please join in! :)
  • 12-22-2011, 09:10 AM
    Don
    The longest one I've had so far is nine months. She was too small to breed at the time of the strike. Then one day, she started eating again and hasn't done it again ---- yet.
  • 12-22-2011, 09:11 AM
    Annarose15
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    6 months
  • 12-22-2011, 09:12 AM
    hongkongluna
    Close to 9 months. He started at about 1100 grams and lost 150by the end. I offered every week at first, then every few weeks, the last 4 months or so, maybe once a month. Then one day he was hungry :)

    P.s. i checked temps etc obsessively and monitored his weight
  • 12-22-2011, 09:27 AM
    billye1982
    I have a big, 3000+ gram female went 8 months. Then she started again, but she is still kinda picky. Hasnt lost any weight and I am pairing her for the first time this season, I cant wait to see how many eggs she lays.
  • 12-22-2011, 09:32 AM
    jbean7916
    My pastel has eaten 1 time in the last 11mos. She started her fast at 1100g and is down to 930g. We have offered food bi-weekly and she shows no interest in anything! No mice, no rats, not even ASFs. We've offered live, p/k, f/t, in the morning, in the evening, in the middle of the night and nothing!

    sent from my EVO
  • 12-22-2011, 09:36 AM
    luvmyballs
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    My big male pastel is in the middle of a 2 1/2 month strike.
  • 12-22-2011, 09:37 AM
    L.West
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    I had one male normal go 10 months without eating. I tried everything from f/t mice and rats, live mice & rats, live ASF - he simply would not eat and then one day he decided he liked little tiny mice and would gobble 4 at one feeding. He lost very little weight throughout the whole fasting time.
  • 12-22-2011, 09:42 AM
    Redneck_Crow
    My three 1500 gm females have been off feed since the first week of December.

    Darthie started around the same time but his innate greed only allowed him to stick it out for a couple of weeks.
  • 12-22-2011, 09:57 AM
    ball-nut
    One year 2 months.
    Male cooled for breeding, bred through season and just would not eat. Not cooled following year but still he wanted to breed, gave him a female and after he finished he ate and has never refused since.

    Sent from my phone, to the Internet, to your screen.
  • 12-22-2011, 09:58 AM
    cmack91
    Mines gone on two 6monthish strikes, and a couple other 1-2monthers, hes been eating steadily for awhile now though
  • 12-22-2011, 10:03 AM
    shawn388
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    my 1500 gram male been on a hunger strike for about 2 months now . i use to have a 2500 gram female that went on a 8 month hunger strike.
  • 12-22-2011, 10:13 AM
    Tzeentch
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    My male normal went 7 months. Then he started eating regularly for 6 months and has not eaten again in a month.
  • 12-22-2011, 02:31 PM
    DooLittle
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    Wow, I am surprised at how long they go! Do they get grumpy as well? I would imagine so.:O
  • 12-22-2011, 02:36 PM
    Brian Fobian
    Had a Lesser Pastel female, that didn't eat for 8 months. For some reason, she's a super eater today:)
  • 12-22-2011, 03:23 PM
    MazAnth
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    Some of my big girls have gone 13 months without much weight loss:rage:
  • 12-22-2011, 04:41 PM
    GR8DANE
    I currently have a male normal at 31 days and a female normal at 105 days
  • 12-22-2011, 05:04 PM
    ballpythonluvr
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    My male normal has been off feed for 57 days now.
  • 12-22-2011, 05:05 PM
    Skittles1101
    My male pastel has refused for 6 weeks, and I don't see it ending anytime soon :rolleyes:
  • 12-22-2011, 05:39 PM
    zeion97
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    Wow.. I was actually going to start a thread on this...LOL well. Our female went 8 months without eating. BUT we rescued her. A few weeks ago we found out She went somewhere between 15-18 months without eating. She lost I think 500 grams? Maybe a little more, little less. It's hard to know the truth when snakes change hands like a preppy high-school girl does guys. ;) but to a snake I've owned.. simba is on a 3 Week strike. BUT, he's also sick.
  • 12-22-2011, 06:06 PM
    loonunit
    5 months. He was arguably a juvenile though: a 2008 het pied male that stopped eating from November 2009 until April 2010. Went from close to 1000 grams to 600 and change. On the bright side, he also stopped biting ME at that point, too...

    (He's healthy and happy now, and back up to 1200 grams or so. And he hasn't gone back to his bitey ways, though we still call him Mr. Nibbles.)
  • 12-22-2011, 10:53 PM
    cmack91
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by DrDooLittle View Post
    Wow, I am surprised at how long they go! Do they get grumpy as well? I would imagine so.:O

    mines never really been any different during a strike, if anything he'll be a little less active, but never grumpy or moody
  • 12-22-2011, 11:00 PM
    LotsaBalls
    I had a male (wild caught) back in 92 that was eating then just stopped. Didn't eat for nine months. Finally got him to eat a hamster then just went back to eating.
  • 12-22-2011, 11:09 PM
    Misfit
    Re: How long has your adult bp gone on food strike for?
    A year and a half or something along those lines.. she still isn't eating.
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