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    Not Eating

    Its hard to say, especially without seeing a pic so we can judge his condition now. Do you have a digital scale? If he starts losing weight, then it may be an issue. From the feeding schedule you describe, I would guess he would be on the leaner side. So, if he was in our collection I would probably make it a priority to get him eating. I would make sure temps were correct, clutter up his enclosure as much as possible, black out/cover the sides of the enclosure to minimize stress, leave him alone for a week, then offer him a live appropriately sized prey item in his enclosure (probably something slightly smaller than what he normally eats). I'd just put the prey item in the enclosure, cover the enclosure (or turn out the lights) and go away for 15min or so. If he doesn't eat remove the prey item and try again in a week. This method as worked for me so far.

    It isn't normal for a 230g BP to fast, so obviously something is bothering him.

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