Ok, Here's the deal. Toki is my 900+ gram het Pied female. She's always been a great eater.
About 5 months ago, I moved all my snakes into a rack, and have had nothing but feeding troubles since then.
Toki went from F/T rats to small live rats, then from that to mice over the course of that 5 months with sporadic feeding. For the last two weeks, she will hunt and strike her prey, but then drops it immediately. She won't even glance at F/T, but a live rat or mouse is stalked eagerly, but as soon as she strikes it she drops it, only to repeat the hunt-strike-drop over again. If she weren't actively hunting the prey, I'd think she just wasn't interested. But she IS hungry, I know she is. But it seems like she has forgotten how to eat ?
I can't get ASF here, they are illegal, but I've tried mice and different sizes of rats, with the same result. I just don't know what to do for her. Any suggestions, or do I just need to wait it out and hope she'll get hungry enough one day ?
Gale
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