I have a 3 year old who has stopped eating again and we are going on 8 months. He has dropped 500g in those 8 months. We have force fed him once last month per direction from the vet after all other avenues were a fail (listed below). My concern is that he used to be a religious feeder and was great. He had a bad reaction to coconut at about 1.5 years of age and went off of food when he got a skin infection from the coconut. He finally went back on after 8 months, ate about 3 months, then discovered the ladies and went off of food now for 8 months. He was at 1768g in August (the last time he ate), I just weighed him last night and he is 1274g. He literally flees from the rats. We have tried it all. We feed frozen thawed but below are all the things we have tried:
  • Live
  • heating the F/T above 100degrees
  • keeping it cooler
  • braining
  • quail
  • chicks
  • scenting (vanilla, mouse, gerbil)
  • feeding out of the enclosure
  • feeding at different times of days
  • changing keeping him in a different room other than the females for a month
  • taking him on a drive
  • decreasing/increasing the humidity
  • not offering for months
  • leaving the food in overnight


We are now at the point where I can only think that we will need bloodwork or imaging. Does anyone have any other ideas? Normally I wouldn't be concerned but he has loss too much weight and he is getting lethargic. We have force fed him and he regurgitated it once. He is a very sweet snake and I really don't want to traumatize him as he will avoid us for days when he is put through too much. What am I missing? Is there anything that I could try before we start poking and prodding or are we at that point?