Re: Ball python not eating
Is it because he's flighting during his "fight or flight"? Does he show no interest at all, or run away? Do you hold the prey?
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Re: Ball python not eating
You can:
Mess around with temps. We have some snakes who will take a F/T without warming it and others who need it to a specific degree
Feeding under a red light. Then you can see the snake and prey but the snake (a nocturnal hunter) is closer to its instinctual hunting pattern
Don't offer for 2 feeds. Refusal can become a pattern.
Those are our 3 most successful methods!
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I hold the rat with tongs and try to mimic a live one. He just looks at it and then ignores it
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Do you guys suggest trying a live one or not
I don't like the idea because of the disastrous effects that could happen like the death of a snake but I am willing to try
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William Snakespeare
Do you guys suggest trying a live one or not
I don't like the idea because of the disastrous effects that could happen like the death of a snake but I am willing to try
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did you correct the husbandry issues we covered in your last post?
did you get a thermostat and are your temps regulated? this is most likely a husbandry issue and you need to correct your husbandry before trying anything else.
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Not yet, the guy that sells thermostats is out of stock but that is right at the top of my list right now. I am now checking the temps regularly
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If your husbandry is off then definitley wait before switching. Where I live F/T is the ONLY option. So when we get snakes flown in that require a switch we do it. There cannot be a never for us. If the snake won't switch it will die. So far we haven't had a snake that won't switch. We have even gotten our babies to start live on F/T....not an easy feat!! But no switch should happen if your temps are off. If the guy who sells thermostats is unavailable Amazon will have something and be here in 2 days with Prime.
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Great info, thanks guys. Good news I got the temperatures regulated with thermostat, now the feeding part.
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