sigh....

[icygirl]

Going to my iHerp is a bit depressing... and I feel like our dumpster is my personal small rat depository.



Sigh... just looking for some sympathy or similar experiences from other owners of "blossoming" bp's. This girl stopped eating for 3 months in the spring... Then, I put her with a male thinking maybe THAT would spur her to eat. She ate ONCE after that, then stopped for another month and a half!! Husbandry is the same as my other two BP's in the same rack who are eating fine. She just... doesn't want to eat. Gah this girl drives me nuts... I feel like a nervous parent But, she's lost only 50 grams in the last 2.5 months though, and she is now 1341 grams. I figure that means she's not starving at least...


Why is it that BP's sometimes just decide "hey I'm going to stop eating for a few months", don't they know it drives us all crazy?

[Danounet]

How old is she?

[icygirl]

How old is she?

I don't know for sure, but I think around 2.5 years old.

[Soterios]

Pardon my ignorance, but where is that software available?

[seeya205]

iherp is a website! www.iherp.com

[Lolo76]

Pardon my ignorance, but where is that software available?

Here: http://www.iherp.com/Welcome.aspx

I just started using it last month, and it's great!! To the OP, I feel your pain... Mona was a great eater for the first 6 weeks I had her, and then she just got picky (possibly due to my attempt at switching her to F/T). I guess as long as she's healthy, you just have to be patient... easier said than done, I know.

[jglass38]

Try a change of food. If she was eating rats, try mice. If she was eating live, try frozen. Believe it or not, I have a snake that has never eaten F/T (he is probably 4 years old). He was my last F/T hold out. Wouldn't touch warmed up rats or warmed up mice. What turned him was a thawed but still cold mouse. I can't say why but it worked. Sometimes change just spurs them to eat.

[pythontricker]

I wouldn't worry. I just had a male go off feed 9 months. He was about 1250 grams before hunger strike, and about 1050 when he finally fed. Eating really well now and is currently up to 1170 grams.

[nixer]

i had a female go off feed for a year, shes currently eating me out of house and home

[grim reaper in NY]

I swear somewhere there's a weight watchers program for out pythons and they are all enrolled in the damned prograam. I think they all have weight gain issues like supermodels and that's what drives us nuts. I just wish I could find the network that contacts our pythons and convinces them a months long fasting diet is needed in order to keep their figures.