My ball python isn't eating.

[Leda]

I don't know if it's because she's stressed with the new tank and surroundings or what. But she hasn't even been interested in the mouse it appears.

I take the mouse out at night and put it in a seperate container, so it doesn't try to bite my snake again >:[. A scale or two was damaged. Grr.

I was mad. I almost threw the bastard out the window.

So about her eating. Should I just let her take her time to get used to her new surroundings? I don't know what it is. She ate last a week and a half ago or so. She should be hungry!

[NickP]

She's in a new tank? When did you move her? What are the temps, humidity; how many hides are there?

[Leda]

Two hiding places, she's in her half log right now, humidity is sufficient, it's 83 degrees in there, I moved her two days ago.

Maybe she isn't interested in the mouse because it was in a pickle jar. I cleaned it out first and well, but it still has that pickley-smell to it. Hm. Maybe I should bathe the mouse.

It's a giant cleaned out jar that I use to put mice in over night. ( I won't leave mice in her tank over night, they tend to bite.)

[k1ingdomKaa]

Id say give it a week or so, and try again maybe its just stressed, that what happened when my snakes cage changed.

[NickP]

Could be few things:

1. She might be about to shed.
2. Might be extra stressed. Let her be, without handling, for a week.
3. The mouse is too big?
4. Do you have a warmer end as well? You need one end to be 80-84, and the other 90-94.
5. Once I offered my bp a mouse that was wet and he refused. 2 days later I offered same mouse dryed up and he ate. So the smell, or wetness might matter.

[Leda]

Yes, she does have one end of the tank that's warmer. No, the mouse isn't too big at all.

>:[ Now I have to keep this mouse for awhile longer til she wants to eat it. You wait and see, I'll start naming it and buying a nice little tank for it. It'll be like Mr Jingles.

[Moriar]

Yes, she does have one end of the tank that's warmer. No, the mouse isn't too big at all.

>:[ Now I have to keep this mouse for awhile longer til she wants to eat it. You wait and see, I'll start naming it and buying a nice little tank for it. It'll be like Mr Jingles.

haha i have a pet male rat that has been added to my breeding colony. he was refused by my female normal. and he was a cool little dude and like to hang out on my shoulder so next feeding time he wasnt offered up!

[k1ingdomKaa]

lol i wish i could find something fascinating in f/t lol.

[NickP]

I wanna feed live too but he's hooked on F/T and as long as he keeps eating F/T I'm not gonna offer live.

[Leda]

That mouse is gonna be a problem. I can see it already.
I laughed pretty hard today. At Christmas dinner my grandpa says "Do you HAVE to feed your snake, mice? Can't it eat hotdogs or something?".

Haha. It was pretty funny. Mostly because he was serious.