New ball won’t eat

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Originally Posted by Bleh

Sounds like he's just getting used to his new surroundings. My preferred method is to offer fortnightly for a while, and if there's still no joy, try multies (African soft fur) for a while.

As an example, when I brought my BEL home, roughly the same size as your boy, I offered her small weaners fortnightly without success for two months. I then switched to offering her multies of equivalent size (e.g a small multi is roughly the same size as a small weaner) so the scent is different.
The idea is multies are native to their origins so they're triggered to feed more readily. I've also read about people getting success with gerbils which is meant to be irresistible for them, but I've never got that far.

I've never needed to get past the multi stage. Once they take one multi, I'll follow that up with another two or three over the weeks before switching back to normal rats. Don't be surprised of they snub the first normal as they'll usually take the second the next feed!

Good luck.




It is 'meant to be' illegal, but I'm also aware of where I can source live feeders if my level of desperation gets to that stage. Gratefully, it never has!

It's more a 'who you know' sort of scenario. For example, I couldn't walk in to just any reptile shop who stock frozen food and walk out with a live feeder, as they don't know me from Adam. But where you are familiar to others who may have considerably larger collections, where they may breed their own feeders, then its very much possible!

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Yeah that’s what I’m trying at the moment the multis, I will skip next week unless the food I prepare for my female he gets a sniff and seems interested.

He’s pretty chill apart from when he got angry I removed him from his hide one time to clean


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You’ve had him three weeks. He has not had time to get set in his new home. Why, because you’ve been trying to feed him every week. Leave him alone for two weeks. Just spot clean an water him. On week three offer prey an leave it if he doesn’t hit it. In the morning I would bet the prey is gone.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted by 303_enfield

You’ve had him three weeks. He has not had time to get set in his new home. Why, because you’ve been trying to feed him every week. Leave him alone for two weeks. Just spot clean an water him. On week three offer prey an leave it if he doesn’t hit it. In the morning I would bet the prey is gone.

Good luck!

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I said Ive offered food 3 times not that I’ve had him 3 weeks


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If your temps are good and your snake isn’t sick just wait him out. You can try different prey types to see what he prefers but I’d stick with what I really wanted him to eat. I’d also only offer food every 2-3 weeks for a stubborn BP. It’s frustrating when they consistently refuse food but the hunger ALWAYS wins and they ALL eat eventually. I hope your boy gets on track soon.

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Originally Posted by Jamiekerk

Yeah that’s what I’m trying at the moment the multis, I will skip next week unless the food I prepare for my female he gets a sniff and seems interested.

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I'd skip the next week even if he is showing signs if I was in your position. If you don't begin the fortnightly feeding effort now "just in case", you might fall in to that trap the following week.

The feeding habits of BP's are one common problem almost every keeper has and everyone can relate to wanting to keep trying weekly. I hate it when any of mine have a dry spell.

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Originally Posted by Bleh

I'd skip the next week even if he is showing signs if I was in your position. If you don't begin the fortnightly feeding effort now "just in case", you might fall in to that trap the following week.

The feeding habits of BP's are one common problem almost every keeper has and everyone can relate to wanting to keep trying weekly. I hate it when any of mine have a dry spell.

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Yeah I’ve skipped this week starting to see signed he might be hungry soon his head is poking around entrance to one of his hides now, hopefully he will take next weekhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...54b303c674.jpg


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Originally Posted by Jamiekerk

Yeah I’ve skipped this week starting to see signed he might be hungry soon his head is poking around entrance to one of his hides now, hopefully he will take next week

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Can completely relate to your concerns. It probably the biggest thing that gets me going when they go on a dry spell, and despite it going against everything you want to do which is just see them eat, you've got to trust the process.

Obviously if you witness drastic weight loss or other signs of concern, then consider a reptil vet but remember how long these guys can go without a feed... my longest dry spell has been circa. 6 months for an adult, but I've spoken to someone who had an adult female go almost a year :O

But have confidence he'll come around. He's young and is hardwired to eat and grow so it will almost certainly kick in with him eventually!

Think I’m just used to my female who I just put it on top her hide and she’s right out. No Tis no hassle


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Think I’m just used to my female who I just put it on top her hide and she’s right out. No Tis no hassle


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Snakes that aren't fussy can spoil you, for sure. It's why I prefer rat snakes & many other kinds of snakes other than BPs. A certain percentage of BPs are just "royal pains" about feeding. ;)
I swear that's where they got the name "Royal" pythons!? :rofl:If you're set on keeping BPs, it just goes with the territory- make peace with some of them being fussy, needy snakes. :snake:

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

Snakes that aren't fussy can spoil you, for sure. It's why I prefer rat snakes & many other kinds of snakes other than BPs. A certain percentage of BPs are just "royal pains" about feeding. ;)
I swear that's where they got the name "Royal" pythons!? :rofl:If you're set on keeping BPs, it just goes with the territory- make peace with some of them being fussy, needy snakes. :snake:

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This is a 100% fact :rofl: some nights I'll go 16/16 on feedings and others I'll go 5/16. I've said it a million times, they're such weird animals LOL