Quote Originally Posted by angllady2 View Post
I would certainly try the newspaper thing. It's cheap and clean and easy to do.

Give the snake several days and then try a live pinky rat if you can.

I also had a very stubborn baby who would not eat. She went for over a month and was loosing a lot of weight for something so tiny. I tried f/t, live fuzzy mice, live hoppers, nothing would get her to eat. I finally gave her a new hide, made from an upside down dark blue plastic cereal bowl with a little door cut in it. The next feeding day she took one live hopper, but no more.

I kept struggling with her, she would only take one prey and only a very small one for her size. That worked four times, then she stopped eating again. I was about to tear my hair out in fustration with her. Then, I finally managed to find a live fuzzy rat. At first she ignored it, just like the mice. Then, just when I had given up and was going to remove it, she hit it. She must have held that rat in coil for 25 minutes before she ate it, but she did eat. So there is something to be said for trying a rat instead of a mouse.

I have two extremely shy snakes right now, and if I'm not super careful with them, they go off feed. Another thing I found that can help is to mostly cover the cage when offering food. It's the same principal as turning out the lights, and it has worked for me several times.

Gale
yea i'll try the newspaper thing and maybe a different hide or two, i mean he doesn't look he's losing weight but again i see him all the time and it's hard to notice small changes when you constantly look at something, after the newspaper thing i think you mention give it about a week and i'll try a fuzzy rat, i'm just worried, i mean it's my brothers snake but he's only 9 so i'm taking care of it which i don't mind