Not eating after breeding question.

[SlitherinSisters]

lol, like I said, if you like your males off feed, go ahead, I'll keep mine eating ty.

This post is a fine example of why to regulate your male breeding

I know people are touchy on this, but I'll have to agree with you. That's exactly why you regulate how often the male is in with the female. A young male, especially, has the chance of stressing himself to death, by not eating or pure stress. I personally would rather not risk something that is based on fact in a round about way. Males can stress from over breeding, if your snake is stressed it doesn't eat, if your snake doesn't eat, it dies...... Simple yes?

To the OP, we all make mistakes, it's just the difference of an honest mistake or pure ignorance/laziness (it's not that hard to take the male out for a few days). I know you won't do it again. Good luck getting him to eat again He'll eat regularly next year for you as long as you give him breaks. Also, I can understand why you would be confused reading stuff online/from books. Don't worry about it. You didn't do it on purpose knowing that most people take the males out every few days for a break.

If you feel your snake is losing weight and getting weak I would suggest giving it some oral flagyl. This drug is a miracle worker for this problem. If it was me I would do it right now. I have never had a snake not come around and start eating very shortly after giving it flagyl. One simple dose usually does the trick. Good luck.

Where do you find that? I've never heard of it.