Non-eating Baby

[metalsmoker]

Guys here is a little update on my situation. My girl ate on Saturday, however, without constricting. She missed the rat for the first time and then refused to attack him again, so I left it there and after some time she started eating. I was glad she ate, however, I am disappointed that she did not constrict. This is only 3rd time she has eaten since she has been with me (it's been over 2 months now and it seems like eating 3 times over more than 2 months is just so little food).

[Archimedes]

eh, sometimes they do that. at least she's eating a bit, I was in your boat for three months after Izzy arrived to me.

[CORBIN911]

Try enticing her with live ASFs if you want to see her eat again.

Or stop worrying about constricting. And stop watching her. She may be bothered. By it. I have a bumblebee who WILL not strike a rat off tongs. And is too shy for live. I just have to stop a rat in and move to the next. In morning it is usually gone

[AlexisFitzy]

Guys here is a little update on my situation. My girl ate on Saturday, however, without constricting. She missed the rat for the first time and then refused to attack him again, so I left it there and after some time she started eating. I was glad she ate, however, I am disappointed that she did not constrict. This is only 3rd time she has eaten since she has been with me (it's been over 2 months now and it seems like eating 3 times over more than 2 months is just so little food).

Oh don't worry/get discouraged friend. It will be okay. I know how you feel though. When I got my second snake Bubo a year ago it took him at least 2 months to start eating anything and he was only 160g I was so worried about him but now he's a big boy and is happily chowing down and getting fatter by the week. Just give it time and your snake will become a great eater for you. They just get in weird ruts where they just don't want to eat. I have one doing it now but she's kinda a jerk lol pretty as can be though..but anyway try and keep you head up and keep us updated

[Stewart_Reptiles]

How big is she and how big is the prey that you are feeding?

Also can you give us some details on you husbandry, everything from enclosure size to hide to temps etc.

[metalsmoker]

Well I don't know her length, but she weighs something over 310 grams. As for her enclosure, her cold side is 28°C (82,4°F), her hot spot is 33°C (91,4°F), as for the ambient temp it varies between 29-30°C (82,4-86°F). The humidity in her enclosure is usually around 54% (65-70% during shedding). I feed her small rats which are approximately as big as her width. I have already tried feeding live (as the breeder I got her from told me she was on small live rats), feeding in separate enclosure, leaving the rat overnight but nothing helped.
As for her enclosure, she has two hides (one on cold and one on hot side), water bowl, cypress mulch as a substrate, infrared lamp to keep the cold side and ambient temps up, as it tends to get colder sometimes where I live. In addition, she has some artificial plants to feel safer, the tank is covered from three sides. She is in my room, however, there is not much disturbance since I live here alone.
I thought of moving her to the tub, but cannot afford to rebuild my room for rack system right now

[metalsmoker]

I tried feeding her yesterday as she was two days after shedding and she approached it a bit, smelled it but did not strike and after a while lost interest. She is not losing her weight (still on 310 grams) but not gaining either and she shed perfectly.

[J.P.]

i once had an albino of about the same size as your problem feeder.......after 3 months of fruitless efforts trying to trick it into eating an assortment of rodent species, size, and color, i asked for help in this forum and got all the usual advice (which i have already tried prior to asking)...what solved my problem was moving the snakes and rats in the same room. i did not do this for the purpose of improving her feeding response but rather to control the super high summer temp which was decimating my rat colony. within a few days of smelling the rat aroma 24/7, my hunger striking albino made a complete trun around and has been a regular eater ever since. only negative effect of this arrangement is my previous champion eaters turned into outright monsters....they are in hunt mode 24/7, and i have to be very careful to avoid getting tagged.....

[BrandyL1193]

The last few times I have had to use a blow dryer to warm up the rat real good..otherwise one of mine would just smell it then go back in his hide.

[metalsmoker]

The last few times I have had to use a blow dryer to warm up the rat real good..otherwise one of mine would just smell it then go back in his hide.

I also tried heating it up more than I usually do with the blow dryer but did not help either. But thanks anyway