What is the longest your BP has gone without eating?

[meekjz]

Mine just came off a 5 month fast.

[ballpythonluvr]

My male normal is currently on day 56 with no feeding.

[Munizfire]

Keeping proper temperatures and providing good hides is key to having your BP eat. It doesn't take much variance from the ideal temperatures (78-82 cool side, 88-92 hot side) to stress them out enough to stop eating.

Thankfully my Pin has never refused any food, so I really have no experience in this, but I'm afraid it goes way deeper than that. I understand some will not eat no matter what.




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[The Serpent Merchant]

Thankfully my Pin has never refused any food, so I really have no experience in this, but I'm afraid it goes way deeper than that. I understand some will not eat no matter what.




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Yes of course, BP's will stop eating for absolutely no reason, but there is no chance of successful feeding if your temps are off.

[jbean7916]

My pastel female was off feed for 11 months! She lost a couple hundred grams but as soon as she started eating again she gained that back plus some in a very short time.

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[kitedemon]

Snake merchant has this right if your temps are off hi or low they will often not feed at all. I don't get much variation in temps with the way I have my set up and I have a big male (1900) and big female (3700) whom go off for 6-10 months. I try to get 20 meals in while they are feeding. The first meal I offer small. After they have been off for a month I start offering 'small' rats about 50gm it will ease them back into eating again.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

10 Months

[JulieInNJ]

My breeder girl is at 114 days (nearly 4 months) off feed. She laid last week so I'm hoping her appetite returns soon.

[jason_ladouceur]

2 months is nothing to most snakes. remember BP's metabolic needs are very very low when compared to something warm blooded like us. i had one go on an18 month fast one time with very little weight loss.

[JTrott]

I have found that alot of my non-eaters don't eat during the winter becasuse the humidity is too low....don't know how that effects their eating, but I have found that it does......during the winter, I keep everything on cypress, so I can control humidity, if they don't eat, I dump a cup of water on it...mix it up, and then moderatley spray it down, and the next day, I can almost GUARANTEE they will eat.

Just my experience,
Jason