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Re: Doesn't Want To Eat...
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Thank you.
When my Carpets get finicky like this, I offer food to them only if I Know that another snake is available that will not turn down a meal. Otherwise I skip a feeding cycle.
The one thing I found that you can count on about Balls is that they are consistent about their inconsistentcy.
1.2 Coastal Carpet Pythons
Mack The Knife, 2013
Lizzy, 2010
Etta, 2013
1.1 Jungle Carpet Pythons
Esmarelda , 2014
Sundance, 2012
2.0 Common BI Boas, Punch, 2005; Butch, age?
0.1 Normal Ball Python, Elvira, 2001
0.1 Olive (Aussie) Python, Olivia, 2017
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Re: Doesn't Want To Eat...
I clearly need mote snake's! 😂 Xena is my go to snake when the BP refuses!
I feel a noodle Christmas gift coming my way 😍
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Re: Doesn't Want To Eat...
Hey Kez, I remember when you 1st got Xena. She looks great. I got into carpets around the same time. I agree with Reinz, a few missed feedings is no big deal. I also agree that a large rat every 5-7 days is too much food for a carpet that age and size. If she's striking the glass and trashing her enclosure I'd double check her temps. You can also offer larger meals but I'd still space them out a little more. My adult carpets eat every 2-3 weeks during the warmer months and every 4-6 weeks during winter. They definitely could eat more often but there's no need. My animals are pretty much the same size as yours as Reinz's. 6-7 ft long and roughly 3kg.
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Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy
Hey Kez, I remember when you 1st got Xena. She looks great. I got into carpets around the same time. I agree with Reinz, a few missed feedings is no big deal. I also agree that a large rat every 5-7 days is too much food for a carpet that age and size. If she's striking the glass and trashing her enclosure I'd double check her temps. You can also offer larger meals but I'd still space them out a little more. My adult carpets eat every 2-3 weeks during the warmer months and every 4-6 weeks during winter. They definitely could eat more often but there's no need. My animals are pretty much the same size as yours as Reinz's. 6-7 ft long and roughly 3kg.
Thanks Ziggy I'm pretty proud of her! I've got the itch for another one and as we've just got our own home and are settled it's just a matter of deciding what to get! I felt the feeding was too much but her breeder recommended bulking her up for winter? I guess I just need to read her behaviour and follow your guys advice as keepers but not breeders 👍 the more I think about it her activity isn't feeding activity! She's calm and relaxed on her perches by day and exploring/cruising/trashing by night so I guess she's probably just looking for a male!
I've double checked her temps and they're no different to how I usually have them, what kind of temps do you have yours at in summer/winter?
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Re: Doesn't Want To Eat...
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
Your probes really oughta be on the outside of the enclosure...
That would depend on what the probe is regulating. For a uth, yes the probe should be outside against the uth, preferably between the uth and cage bottom. For rhp or che, the probe should be inside the enclosure under the hot spot.
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Hudson 1988 1.0 Colombian rainbow; Yang 2002 1.0 Corn snake; Merlin 2000 1.0 Solomon Island ground boa; Kett 2015 1.0 Diamond Jungle Jaguar carpet python; Dakota 2014 0.0.1 Children’s python
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Eli 1990 1.0 Normal; Buttercup 2015 1.0 Albino; Artemis 2015 0.1 Dragonfly; Orion 2015 1.0 Banana Pinstripe; Button 2018 1.0 Blue Eyed Lucy; Piper 2018 0.1 Piebald; Belle 2018 0.1 Lemonblast; Sabrina 2017 0.1 Mojave; Selene 2017 0.1 Banana Mojave; Loki 2018 1.0 Pastel Mystic Potion; Cuervo 2018 1.0 Banana Piebald; Claude 2017 1.0 Albino Pastel Spider; Penelope 2016 0.1 Lesser
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