Hatchlings not eating?

[metalmomma23]

I have 4 baby spider ball pythons that hatched almost 6 weeks ago. I have not been able to get them to eat on their own no matter what I try. I have tried pinkies, fuzzies, and rat pups. I have tried putting them in a small bag for a few hours and putting them in their tubs at night an leaving them till morning no luck. For six weeks with no food two of the look great and healthy but the other two look smaller and skinnier but yet are still very active and normal. Can anyone give me some much needed advice on this subject I really hate to have to force feed four snakes. Thank you everyone!

[Freakie_frog]

Have you tried mice..? sometimes for what ever reason they will start on mice or ASF hoppers and after a meal or 3 they can be switched to rat pups at that point.

[metalmomma23]

Yes I meant to say pinkie and fuzzy mice and rat pinkies not pups.

[Freakie_frog]

Are you offering them a hide, are they housed seperately, what size tub are they in?

[metalmomma23]

Yes all separated in 6qt tubs with two hides.

[Freakie_frog]

Can you shoot a pic of one of your baby tubs I may be missing something.. What are their temps like??

[metalmomma23]

Can't do a pic at the moment cause I'm at work but temps are 78-80 at night and 86-88 day

[Seru1]

Doing live or f/t?

I have heard it's harder to get babies on f/t, much to my chagrin. I hope they start eating for you!

[Freakie_frog]

Can't do a pic at the moment cause I'm at work but temps are 78-80 at night and 86-88 day

That's not terribly cool, Cooler than I keep my babies but still.. why the temp drop at night is that something you are doing or is it something that happens normally in the room. Babies neither need or benefit from a drop in temps at night. So try and get them to 90-92 all the time for a week and see how it goes..

[metalmomma23]

I tried having them at a steady 88-90 when for the first 4 weeks but then added them to my snake room which is why the temp diff. Well thank you everyone for the help.

P.S. Offering live but have tried f/t twice just to see if any different reaction.