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    when will she be ready to eat again?!?! eating strike

    ok so my snakes hasnt been eating which happend a lot with ball pythons so im not worried she very active at night which is when i try to feed her but still nuttin so now when will i know if she ready to eat again is there any sure signs of a hungry snake or a snake that will feed again????

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    There is nothing that is definitive, you just have too try. there are signs that they are hungry but as I said they do not guarantee that they will eat.

    Cruising around at night is usually a sign of them being hungry.
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    Re: when will she be ready to eat again?!?! eating strike

    All I can add is keep offering weekly and keep and eye on weight they will eat again someday
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    Try a different food item. My lesser went off feed for a few months and just ended his strike. He's been fed on rats his entire life but kept refusing after he went off feed. Last week I tried a mouse plus the usual rat. Couldn't hurt to try other things right? And guess what? He took both. Ate the mouse then the rat a second later. Seemed like the mouse scent triggered something in him to strike.

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