I keep all my snakes and bearded dragons in a shed in my backyard. It is insulated, but has no central heat or air. I keep it cool in the summer with a window AC unit and warm in the winter with a space heater with a thermostat. It has worked fine for me.
Somehow, after a night that got almost to freezing, my heater cut off. When I came in the next morning, it was very cold in the shed. I checked all the animals. Everything was curled up over their heat tape, but everything was fine...except for my male Mojave. For some reason, instead of sitting on the heat tape like everything else, he was curled up in his water bowl on the cool side of his tub. I picked him up and he was cold to the touch. His movements were very slow. I rushed him into the house and put him under a heat lamp. After just a few minutes he livened up and started exploring his new tub he was in. I kept him inside for about two weeks to let the cold snap pass and make sure I had everything straight with my heater and to observe him.
Needless to say I found out what happened with the heater and I have moved the mojo back out to his tub. He seems completely fine and just as healthy looking as he has always been. However, he was always an aggressive feeder for me, usually taking 2 mice or 2 rat pups every 7 days. Since this event, he has not taken a meal. I offered him a mouse a week after the day I found him cold when I had him inside, and he would not take it. A week after that, since I moved him back to his original tub, I offered him a rat pup that I left with him over night (too young to cause any harm to the snake) that he also would not take. It's been almost 3 weeks since his last meal. His last meal was 2 mice on 12/30/09. Do you think he just got really stressed out from the cold, or something more serious? Also, being moved around from outside to inside to outside I'm sure stressed him out...like I said, he looks and acts perfectly fine other than not having taken a meal in three weeks. Any ideas on what I can do to get him eating again?
Thanks in advance
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