Dumeril's Boa won't eat

[doronxl7]

Dumeril Boas are aggrassiv eaters, they don,t go off food like ball pythons. There must be a reason for that. Is she healthy? Does she have any kind of health problems? If she is healthy, you should ask the store where you bought her from what she usually ate there. I would feed her at this age and size adult live mice. Don,t switch between live and frozen just stick to one of them. Does she spend time at the warm side? If yes then its ok. If no then reduce the temperature to 86-88f. I fed my male Dumeril Live mice until he reached 10 months old and then i switched him to live rats. he eats regulary, never went off food.

Try dropping the basking to 85-87.

Does she have hides?

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As long as she is not losing weight, I wouldn't worry. My Dumeril's is an infrequent eater, as well, but is still managing to grow just fine. Continue to offer an appropriately sized prey item every 2 weeks and see how it goes. Also, she may be slowing down feeding for winter. Either way, know that this is a common problem, as Dumeril's are VERY well known to be finicky eaters. I read a breeder's account of a hatchling that took their first meal at 8 months! As long as your temps are good, she has places to hide, and is not losing significant weight, don't worry. 😊

Young dumeril's tend to be shy and often require hides and/or burrowing opportunity to feel secure to eat, sort of similar to ball pythons.

What does your setup look like? I would provide a thick burrowing substrate, like either aspen or coco chips.

Also yes, like others have said, they are a cooler species and their hot side doesn't need to be that high. 85-87 max.

You don't need to take her to the vet unless you observed clear symptoms that she's sick. Vets can't do anything if there's nothing wrong.

She finally ate today
I still can't figure out what happened that she ate, I hope to get to know her better from now on

I gave her today almost adult live black mouse instead of medium rat \ thawed mice (most of the times I tried white mouse, read somewhere some snakes like diff color),
raised the temp from 84-86 f to 86-87.5 f or even the long period without food break her.
I hope that everything will be alright from now on