My Butter Champagne female don't want to eat!!!

This particular snake isn't eating well I need help... I have 3 other ball pythons and they eat well... But the Butter Champagne since day one I pass hours trying to feed him...

We need particulars. How long have you had the snake? What's the set up like? Temps? How often do you try to feed? Have you tried different sizes/types of feed? Do you feed live or FT?

I feed my snakes every week but this is the only snake of 4 that eat the day after in the morning... She eats live rats and mouse I prefer rats, I think that the snake is very specific in the strike... and waits and waits to get that perfect moment and that moment with a small rat that is a moving target is difficult... But I do that changing size but really this is a 600g female she should eat medium or small rats.

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Originally Posted by RafyWiz

I feed my snakes every week but this is the only snake of 4 that eat the day after in the morning... She eats live rats and mouse I prefer rats, I think that the snake is very specific in the strike... and waits and waits to get that perfect moment and that moment with a small rat that is a moving target is difficult... But I do that changing size but really this is a 600g female she should eat medium or small rats.

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Some snakes prefer different foods.
I have a 1700 gram GHI that will only take mice. She will not touch a rat. So dont be fooled into thinking that just because she is big enough to eat a rat that she will, if she will not, try something else. Large mice or ASF's eventualy wou will find something she will eat
Also if she is not happy with her enclosure she may not eat or over stressed, too hot or too cold. There are many reasons a snake will not eat, you just need to find out why. is it enviormental or does she prefer a different prey? is she stressed?

What is she housed in?

I like when people put the type of morph it is as in that's gonna help lol

Also, try different color rats or mice. I had a bp that was on an all brown/black mouse diet for a while. As weird as it sounds, it's a thing. I know there will be some critics, but truth be told this worked.

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Originally Posted by Rorschach

Also, try different color rats or mice. I had a bp that was on an all brown/black mouse diet for a while. As weird as it sounds, it's a thing. I know there will be some critics, but truth be told this worked.

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good point I totaly forgot to say different colors

If you want help you need to give us more details than it wont eat...what is housing temps..................

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The previous owner sell it because she don't want to eat weekly. I move her from the tub that the owners give me because I think that was her problem and move it to a tank with heating pad hiding spot and a tree branch I see her pretty normal attitude. But now she have a month without eating and I try different sizes. I started to get stress and do a research and found that I should put her in a dark tub. I have her in a blue tub pretty dark with a hiding spot. what more info you need? Temp: 80*F I think heating pads in tub isn't a good idea, correct me if I'm wrong. I Think it will burn the snake...

I try yesterday with a black one... really I don't know what to do I am thinking that she eats when she wants thats why I started to have my own rats. To have that availability and try to feed him more ostend. ANY CRITICS ANY IDEAS? THANK YOU!

What is the temp of the hot spot?
What is the ambient temp?
What is the humidity?
How do you measure these ^?
What does the set up look like?
How many hides?
How do you heat the tank?
Thermostat?
What is the size of the snake?
What is the size of the tub?
What is the size of the hides?
Is the setup in a high traffic area?
What are you feeding?
Is it live or FT?
If FT how do you heat it?


answers to those questions will give us a good place to start. There are lots of reason the BP might not be eating.

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Originally Posted by RafyWiz

The previous owner sell it because she don't want to eat weekly. I move her from the tub that the owners give me because I think that was her problem and move it to a tank with heating pad hiding spot and a tree branch I see her pretty normal attitude. But now she have a month without eating and I try different sizes. I started to get stress and do a research and found that I should put her in a dark tub. I have her in a blue tub pretty dark with a hiding spot. what more info you need? Temp: 80*F I think heating pads in tub isn't a good idea, correct me if I'm wrong. I Think it will burn the snake...

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Why would the uth burn the snake?? Are you not regulating the heat pad?????

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Sometimes they just don't want to eat. I've had ball pythons get about 800gm and stop for weeks, even months, then start pounding them again.

My tip: wait until it sheds again. Right after it sheds, like the evening of, attempt to feed it with a live or stunned.