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    HI to everyone i have female pastel about 700gr pick her up in repticon
    past 9 days she haven't eat no interested at all i try mice and rat now
    she look really healthy

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    How often have you been offering her food and how is her setup? (Temps, humidity, substrate, hides, etc.) Are you offering live, prekilled, or f/t rodents? If f/t, how are you heating it up?
    Leave her alone for about a week, not bothering her other than to fill her water and check her temps/etc.
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    Re: advise BP

    Quote Originally Posted by Kymberli View Post
    How often have you been offering her food and how is her setup? (Temps, humidity, substrate, hides, etc.) Are you offering live, prekilled, or f/t rodents? If f/t, how are you heating it up?
    Leave her alone for about a week, not bothering her other than to fill her water and check her temps/etc.
    belly is about 87 to 90 she does have a hide i try live mice and hopper rat
    left in the tub 30min nothing jet

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    Increase your warm warm side temp to 93*, leave the snake completely alone for a week, no hadling at all only go in encloser to check water. Then offer a live appropriate sized meal.
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    Re: advise BP

    Quote Originally Posted by llovelace View Post
    Increase your warm warm side temp to 93*, leave the snake completely alone for a week, no hadling at all only go in encloser to check water. Then offer a live appropriate sized meal.
    ok im going to try that

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    You probably should not leave a live rodent in there for more than ten minutes and hopefully you were monitoring it to be sure it didn't bite the snake since clearly the snake wasn't interested.

    I suggest reading through this entire caresheet to be sure you have your husbandry perfect. If it isn't a husbandry issue then I suggest you leave her alone for at least one week to let her settle in. Get her two matching hides one for the cool side, one for the warm side. Offer her another live mouse after you've left her alone for one week. Read through my thread here, I listed the many things I did to get a stubborn eater to finally eat. You may want to try what I did. If that all does not work, you may want to try to find an ASF rat breeder near you. Some picky BPs readily accept ASFs.
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    9 days, she could still be stressed and settling in. Be patient and give her a chance, you could also contact the breeder to find out what she was fed before, and how often.
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    Re: advise BP

    Quote Originally Posted by Kymberli View Post
    You probably should not leave a live rodent in there for more than ten minutes and hopefully you were monitoring it to be sure it didn't bite the snake since clearly the snake wasn't interested.

    I suggest reading through this entire caresheet to be sure you have your husbandry perfect. If it isn't a husbandry issue then I suggest you leave her alone for at least one week to let her settle in. Get her two matching hides one for the cool side, one for the warm side. Offer her another live mouse after you've left her alone for one week. Read through my thread here, I listed the many things I did to get a stubborn eater to finally eat. You may want to try what I did. If that all does not work, you may want to try to find an ASF rat breeder near you. Some picky BPs readily accept ASFs.
    thanks

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    I think your main issue may be that your feeding too small, 700 gram snakes can easily eat a 30 to 40 gram weanling rat or a full size adult mouse.
    I'd try upping the size to an appropriate size before anything.

    9 days is fairly soon to be stressing on it as Maixx mentions, I've had them shipped to me and take 2 months to get eating.
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    i just got mine at the tampa repticon and she has not ate for me yet. i will try again in a week. just dont keep trying as it will make it worse. if she dont take it then wait 7 daysbefore you offer again. she will eat when shes ready.
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