So I thought I would feed her tonight...

[Elise.m]

Or even yesterday. So we went to the place where we bought her, and turns out they're shut down for the entire first week of August. I took that as a sign of "You better wait one more day" and waited til today to go acquire a feeder. I go to the other pet foods store in town, Discount Pets, and they're completely out of all feeders, and won't be getting more til tomorrow night 10 mins before they close. Petsmart or Petco don't carry live feeders (at least here they don't), so those two stores are out the window. Now I have to drive 20 mins away to go get a feeder... Feeding is nothing like I thought it would be!

So I found this store (Yay Yellowpages!!) and they're giving out rat pups that were born today, I think. I guess I can't complain if they're free, but I'm kinda hesitant on if it'll be big enough for her. I guess a small meal is better than no meal, at least I hope.

[2Devious]

You could always start the conversion to F/T. Being able to have a months supply of food in the freezer is pretty nice. Once you drop down to a weeks supply you can order more, and mix n match the sizes for your growing snake.

I have one that refuses to take F/T and I agree that finding feeders can be a huge pita when you only have a small number of suppliers in the area.

[Elise.m]

Well I'm terrible with directions, and couldn't find the store. I decided I might as well try F/T, if she's hungry, I would imagine she'll take it. I thought they were rats, turns out they're mice fuzzies, but I got 3 in a pack. Wish me luck, we'll need it!

[Elise.m]

She didn't eat. Actually I think we pissed her off more than anything.

I'm at my wits end. This snake is gorgeous, I would prefer to keep her, but if she's not going to eat with me, and she's eaten with the breeder the best thing to do would work out a deal with him, right?

Here she is, it's a really bad picture, but the best I could do without using a flash


And here is her tank. It's blurry, sorry. If need be I can get one tomorrow when I'm more calm. It's very cluttered, two hides, temps hardly ever go over 95, and never under 75. Humidity is consistently between 50 and 60. The only thing is that the two hides aren't the same, I tried two exact hides and she didn't want anything to do with them.


I called the breeder and left a message. they're closed the entire first week of august, but I'm hoping he'll at least give me a call back concerning a bad feeder that he told me was a good feeder. I don't know what do to. I'm kinda freaking out inside right now.

It's also possible that she didn't eat cuz it was frozen. How long can a baby go without eating? According to the breeder she was born early July, last ate July 23rd. But, he doesn't keep feeding records so I have no idea if this information is even accurate.

Anyways, any info would be greatly appreciated. I guess next thing we'll try is putting her in a separate enclosure with a live rat, maybe she'll be less stressed out in 5 days. But, she seems to not be the typical snake so I'm sure that won't work either.

[CoolioTiffany]

She looks very skinny to me. When I looked at the lower part of her body, I couldn't believe how small it was. You really need to put some weight on that snake, even if you hate feeding live, you will need to get her some live hoppers or something that will fill her up pretty good.

[Elise.m]

Well today I had no way to get a live feeder. Soonest I can get one is tomorrow, and even that's iffy. I have no idea how much she weighs, I forgot to mention that. He never told me how much she weighed, and I don't have a scale. I'm tempted to try and feed her tomorrow, cuz I know she's gotta be hungry, and she does need to eat.

[CoolioTiffany]

Well today I had no way to get a live feeder. Soonest I can get one is tomorrow, and even that's iffy. I have no idea how much she weighs, I forgot to mention that. He never told me how much she weighed, and I don't have a scale. I'm tempted to try and feed her tomorrow, cuz I know she's gotta be hungry, and she does need to eat.

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if she had internal parasites (worms) :\. Internal parasites take most of the nutrients your snake takes in, so in result, you end up with a skinny and underweight snake with a worm that is full of nutrients and is completely healthy inside of that underweight snake.

[llovelace]

How old is she?
When was the last time she has eaten?
How long have you had her?

[Elise.m]

If she does have that, I'm going to be extremely upset with the breeder. I even looked him up on Fauna and saw nothing but good things. Go figure, my luck I would get the one bad feeder of his entire collection...

[Elise.m]

How old is she?
When was the last time she has eaten?
How long have you had her?

I answered these earlier, but I'll answer again.

She's 3-4 weeks old, born in early July.
Last time she ate (That I was told) was July 23rd.
We've had her since July 25th, have not handled her at all.