Quote Originally Posted by metalsmoker View Post
Sorry for such a late reply. Anyway, after posting my previous reply, she ate like five days after. However, then she refused again twice and has not eaten since. She has only eaten twice since she has been with me (going to be 2 months on August 1). I am really getting desperate.
This isn't exactly the same thing because my Albino is older (3 years). I got him mid March to very early April. His previous owner never had a problem feeding F/T. I tried everything for months. He'd never eat no matter what I tried. Temps and humidity were perfect. Everything was perfect I thought. I was heating with heat pads (I have a few other BPs... including two other problem feeders who I'll get to after). I had a Herpstat running the heat pads because I'm kind of in between building a rack and other stuff. Right now I'm using the poor man rack system (stacking tubs) :-) .

It was bothering me using the heat pads, but I didn't want to run heat tape on the container below. I came up with taking the backing from a dresser or tv stand or something (that thin cheap back that you nail on to budget furniture) and putting the heat tape on that. I wired everything perfectly so there are three rows of heat tape on three of those janky boards. I then attached them to the Herpstat and temps were perfect according to my temp gun.

(Sorry this is so long btw :-/ ).

So I've been running this little system for about a week. I have some great feeders and I have three that never eat. The albino just ignores it and happily slithers over it and around it (and I swear he smiles at me :-) ). A newer acquired Lesser just looks scared at feeding time. Last is a Spider, who came with the lesser. She can be either scared or indifferent.... another thing about her.... I was told she only eats live.

So to wrap this up, the first time feeding since my janked up heating contraption... (just 2 days ago)... Here's how it went. The Albino looks at the dangling rat for a second and then punches the thing with it's whole body, mouth first :-) . The rest was typical of a good eater. The Lesser looked at it for about 30 seconds, and then boom! Second successful feeding. I'm hoping for the Spider, but I don't feed live so F/T attempt once again.... Bam! Three for three!

The moral of this long message is first, don't give up... and second, are you sure the are getting a good regular heat (set properly) with a reliable heat source? I think my stupid mistake was using heat pads. I now think they weren't providing a regular enough heat for the picky ones (the rest were champion eaters). Take a good look at your heating methods and look at all the parts involved.

I hope that might help a bit. Good luck!