Anything you can do about picky eaters?

[Albinoballpython]

Excuse me I just notice you said he did eat lol. I'm glad to hear he ate I wish I could have gotten here sooner and explained I had the exact same problem but hopefully he won't be a special eater! You can always wean him away anyway. My little cornflake is still in day 2 of digestion (that's how close our issues were together) seeing your snake like that breaks your heart, hopefully your snake dousnt give you any problems next week and same for me lol.

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[Galaxygirl]

Excuse me I just notice you said he did eat lol. I'm glad to hear he ate I wish I could have gotten here sooner and explained I had the exact same problem but hopefully he won't be a special eater! You can always wean him away anyway. My little cornflake is still in day 2 of digestion (that's how close our issues were together) seeing your snake like that breaks your heart, hopefully your snake dousnt give you any problems next week and same for me lol.

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I hope for the best for you! I was about to take the gerbil out because the snake was going crazy, coil throwing, striking defensively, and racing around his cage. Right as I was going to open his tub he grabbed onto the gerbil. This guy interestingly enough would show more interest in rats vs. mice, but still wouldn't eat either of them. I dunked a poor little live Rat fuzzy in tuna water and left him over night with him(I felt so bad, haha) and that had no effect. Next week I'm going to get some gerbil bedding from a pet store and scent his cage, and hopefully he'll take a rat or mouse instead.

[Galaxygirl]

Grabbed some dirty hamster bedding from the pet store as they didn't have any gerbils in stock (and I was going to try gerbil scenting). I put the dirty bedding in his tub about 3hrs before feeding. He wasn't acting hungry/was shy when I put the live rat in. I covered him and left him alone with it for 4-5 minutes, and he ate it.

[Galaxygirl]

Little update on this picky guy. I think I've only had success once feeding him a rat without first scenting his cage with gerbil (and hamster once). He completely ignores mice surprisingly, and is eating another small live rat right now. I bought a gerbil to feed him a couple weeks ago, but tried giving him a rat first. He ate the rat, so I decided to just keep the gerbil as a pet and use its dirty bedding to scent rats for him for the future. If he absolutely refuses a rat even when scenting, I put him and the rat in the gerbils cage (I remove the gerbil first) and that seems to get him to eat it.

Hopefully I can get him eating rats without scenting and without having to move him.

He's a year old and has gone from 250g to 400g now. He will only eat for me about once every 12 days.