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What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
Been a few months for mine and it has me bothered.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
The longest I've had one off feed was just over 10 months.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
Just saw your poll too...I've had quite a few go off for over 2 months.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
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Originally Posted by RobNJ
Just saw your poll too...I've had quite a few go off for over 2 months.
Why do they do that?
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The longest I have had any of mine go off was 6-8 weeks, but I know that some can go without eating for over a year.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
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Originally Posted by EvesFriend
Why do they do that?
Any number of reasons...breeding being a big one. Some of my females have gone off feed for a few months in the 800-1100 gram range...why? I have no idea. They eat when they eat and don't when they don't. Not a great answer, but a big part of keeping balls is dealing with them not always eating when you want them to.
My pinstripe girl didn't eat for the first 10 and a half months I had her(I bought her at 850ish grams), not once...she was kept the same as every other ball I have, offered rats, mice, soft furs, live, prekilled, f/t...she just wouldn't eat.
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My female routinely goes off feed for 5 months out of every year. She may take a small mouse or two during that time, but considering she's 7 years old mice aren't exactly nourishing.
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Keeping proper temperatures and providing good hides is key to having your BP eat. It doesn't take much variance from the ideal temperatures (78-82 cool side, 88-92 hot side) to stress them out enough to stop eating.
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My big female just started up eating after being off since middle of december. I put her in a bigger tub ad had her lock with my spider. Something helped anyways.
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My male pastel is at 116 days and holding. He's only lost about 100 grams so I'm not too worried. I sure wish he'd go back to eating though...
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Mine just came off a 5 month fast.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
My male normal is currently on day 56 with no feeding.
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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant
Keeping proper temperatures and providing good hides is key to having your BP eat. It doesn't take much variance from the ideal temperatures (78-82 cool side, 88-92 hot side) to stress them out enough to stop eating.
Thankfully my Pin has never refused any food, so I really have no experience in this, but I'm afraid it goes way deeper than that. I understand some will not eat no matter what.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
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Originally Posted by Munizfire
Thankfully my Pin has never refused any food, so I really have no experience in this, but I'm afraid it goes way deeper than that. I understand some will not eat no matter what.
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Yes of course, BP's will stop eating for absolutely no reason, but there is no chance of successful feeding if your temps are off.
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My pastel female was off feed for 11 months! She lost a couple hundred grams but as soon as she started eating again she gained that back plus some in a very short time.
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Snake merchant has this right if your temps are off hi or low they will often not feed at all. I don't get much variation in temps with the way I have my set up and I have a big male (1900) and big female (3700) whom go off for 6-10 months. I try to get 20 meals in while they are feeding. The first meal I offer small. After they have been off for a month I start offering 'small' rats about 50gm it will ease them back into eating again.
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My breeder girl is at 114 days (nearly 4 months) off feed. She laid last week so I'm hoping her appetite returns soon.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
2 months is nothing to most snakes. remember BP's metabolic needs are very very low when compared to something warm blooded like us. i had one go on an18 month fast one time with very little weight loss.
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I have found that alot of my non-eaters don't eat during the winter becasuse the humidity is too low....don't know how that effects their eating, but I have found that it does......during the winter, I keep everything on cypress, so I can control humidity, if they don't eat, I dump a cup of water on it...mix it up, and then moderatley spray it down, and the next day, I can almost GUARANTEE they will eat.
Just my experience,
Jason
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5 months she ate once then went on another 5 month fast an just ate last week for the first time again. it was a female pied at 1k grams
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
3 1/2 months, and it drove me nuts. As far as why, they don't even always need a reason. But husbandry issues, and breeding season are biggies.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
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7 months, nothing to worry about...he ate again when he wanted to.
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5 days for me. Lol
Always out "hunting" after 3 days. Hoping it stays mostly regular for him.
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Re: What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?
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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant
Keeping proper temperatures and providing good hides is key to having your BP eat. It doesn't take much variance from the ideal temperatures (78-82 cool side, 88-92 hot side) to stress them out enough to stop eating.
I have a Female Pinstripe in the same rack as most of my ball Pythons, she goes off food for three to seven monthes, every year, and she is the only one with a hide. Then eats like there is no tomorrow. I think some morphs are more prone to doing this, like Pinstripes. IMO !
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