i think i found a problem with feeding in enclosure...

[Slim]

Oh, LOL I really hate to admit this but I am one frugal momma!

Nothing wrong with being frugal! More $$ for snakes and snake accessories!

[FrankieCarbone]

thats hard, especially since Vic starts looking like a bum when he goes off feed. When he first went off feed when i had a wood mite issue, he stopped eating, but never lost weight, yet u can see his neck area was kind of folding, also now in the winter time when he first went off feed (2-3 weeks) his skin was also folding, even though he was not loosing any weight and even went into shed!

But i actually thought about this, but what i was gonna do is use my spare critter cage and throw some aspen bedding, each week when i buy a mouse or 2 for him, leave the mouse in there and if he refuses, put the mouse back in the for a few hours before "disposing" of him, to create the stinky "mouse" bedding,

[jbean7916]

thats hard, especially since Vic starts looking like a bum when he goes off feed. When he first went off feed when i had a wood mite issue, he stopped eating, but never lost weight, yet u can see his neck area was kind of folding, also now in the winter time when he first went off feed (2-3 weeks) his skin was also folding, even though he was not loosing any weight and even went into shed!

But i actually thought about this, but what i was gonna do is use my spare critter cage and throw some aspen bedding, each week when i buy a mouse or 2 for him, leave the mouse in there and if he refuses, put the mouse back in the for a few hours before "disposing" of him, to create the stinky "mouse" bedding,

If you are going that far just buy a water bottle and some food and keep the mouse til the next feeding

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[DellaF]

I have one that will only eat mice. I get him 3 a feeding. Sometimes he doesn't want them. Sometimes he only wants two. I bought a couple of containers to put the ones he doesn't eat in. Yes they stink. I don't care to keep mice but I don't want to waste money either. He will usually take them the following week. My Spider girl has been off feed for over a month until last week. She was eating small rats. She wouldn't touch them. I offered a mouse and she ate two. Who knows what they are going to do this week.

Also when one of my boys went off feed for a while I had to offer a smaller prey until he decided he was ready to go back to a small rat They are crazy eaters for sure.

[FrankieCarbone]

If you are going that far just buy a water bottle and some food and keep the mouse til the next feeding

noooooooo, thats TOO far, i hate mice/rats!

a couple of hours is way different than a couple of days

[MikeM75]

You may try NOT sitting there staring at him the whole time the mouse is in there. Could be more shy than you know. It is ok to let a mouse in the enclosure for 5 - 10 minutes, then check up on things.

I, myself, wouldn't worry about it too much though. Right now they go on and off feed, just how it is during this time. Mine will take one week and not the next then refuse for a few weeks then take a meal for two weeks straight, blah, blah, blah lol I do fee live rats but I am breeding them so it makes it easier when they refuse, I just put them back in the grow out tub.