stopped eating :confused:

[sniper]

It'll take several months of not eating for her to lose 25% of her current weight. She'll be fine. Don't do anything extreme until then....

it going on 3 week now but only 10 days since the last offering, and she's very activeduring the night and afternoons so she not getting sluggish.

[AK907]

i was going to give another week and then take her to my vets to get her weight 3 week ago she was over 1lb. and
thanks

Does your vet charge you for a weight? You can save a lot of time and energy purchasing a digital food processing scale at Wal-Mart (or any department store for that matter) for less than $20. Most will have a gram setting and weight up to 5,000g which will be enough for 99.9% of ball pythons. They are very handy to have around.

[sniper]

Does your vet charge you for a weight? You can save a lot of time and energy purchasing a digital food processing scale at Wal-Mart (or any department store for that matter) for less than $20. Most will have a gram setting and weight up to 5,000g which will be enough for 99.9% of ball pythons. They are very handy to have around.

no my vet does not charge for a weight check

[zeion97]

Have you tried to offer at night? Our adult female we saved from a pet store and she's a horror eating... when she isn't shedding shell strike a medium rat any time of the day, she just wont take it. We've had her 7 months and she's only ate twice. You shouldn't have anything to worry about with yours going on this little strike. And I agree, purchase a digital scale. You know, unless you vet lives next door. Lol good luck getting her to eat!

[sniper]

Have you tried to offer at night? Our adult female we saved from a pet store and she's a horror eating... when she isn't shedding shell strike a medium rat any time of the day, she just wont take it. We've had her 7 months and she's only ate twice. You shouldn't have anything to worry about with yours going on this little strike. And I agree, purchase a digital scale. You know, unless you vet lives next door. Lol good luck getting her to eat!

yea we feed her at night only she seems to eat better in low light, and yes i realy need to get a scale cause winter is setting in up here

[Lolo76]

it going on 3 week now but only 10 days since the last offering, and she's very activeduring the night and afternoons so she not getting sluggish.

Three weeks is nothing for a Ball Python, so don't stress out... I have one (adult) girl who went 9 MONTHS without feeding, ate for a few months, and then fasted for another 6 months. She's still fine, in fact she gave me a beautiful clutch of 5 babies in September - and now she is eating like a pig.

[sniper]

Three weeks is nothing for a Ball Python, so don't stress out... I have one (adult) girl who went 9 MONTHS without feeding, ate for a few months, and then fasted for another 6 months. She's still fine, in fact she gave me a beautiful clutch of 5 babies in September - and now she is eating like a pig.

thanks everyone for the support, she had a mouse last night took her 3 hours to get it , norarl time for a rat in under 5 minutes but this is a start

[sniper]

she just went on a diet for 3 week and now she's back to normal , but now she's into the blueing of the shed so about 10 days from now she'll eat again.

and thanks to everyone for their input and help

[sniper]

i put her little and i do mran little she can't hardly fit into it but when she does its off the ground and sh's hanging out of both sides, she went on a hunger strike until she got her fav hide back. she now eats two 85gr to 125gr rat a week, she weighs 1.45lb and she's 6 1/2 months old.when she get hungery she goes on the prowl during the day and night then we wait a day the feel, the last rat took less then two minutes.

weell i want to thank everyone for there input and help
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