Specific eating habits

[mthurston0001]

So I have a baby ball. I had him for a couple of weeks around which point he ate a frozen thawed rat pup (warmed in water) and then ate another the following week. Then he went about a month and ate nothing. I was concerned so I put a small live mouse in with him, which he quickly ate. At this point its been a few weeks since eating. When i dangle a frozen thawed and make it "run" around the shows interest but wont attempt to eat temperature is good. Hides are available. Night comes with a slight temperature drop. So my question is anyone have a ball with the same feeding issue? If so how were you successfully getting it to feed regularly (at least for a ball)?

[Alter-Echo]

Well, first off, what are your temps *exactly*?

Also, yeah, my adult female pastel went off feed all winter and 5 month later started eating again... but will now only eat live prey. The winter fast was no mystery, the the sudden desire for nothing but live after eating frozen for so long? No idea.

So I feel your pain and if your temps turn out to be good then hopefully someone more experienced in this will chime in.

[redshepherd]

Can you post how you measure your temps, and what your warm side and cool side temps are? Also post a pic of your setup, because not all hides are good hides.

Eating live and eating mice can be addicting to some ball pythons, so feeding him that one live mouse could have thrown him off eating f/t rats. Make sure your husbandry and setup is correct, and then stick to offering f/t rat every 4-5 days. You may need to try some tricks to convert him back to f/t.

Maybe you can post a pic of your ball too and its weight?

[mthurston0001]

Air temp is 75* several inches up from the bottom. All the way at the top of the vertically placed core bark log(where he seems to like the most) its also 75*. Ground temp in the hotel spot at one end is 95* and the other end is about 73*.

I have to figure out how to add pics

[mthurston0001]

The center terrarium. Hide on the left under the plants. Also logs on the right.



This one is from the cooler end. You can see he's in his favorite spot.





And that's him. Excuse my bad photography...

He hasn't lost weight that I can measure, but he's not gaining either

[mthurston0001]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiZmLxMF...eNs2_X0g-YPk0/


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[mthurston0001]

Well maybe this will work. There's only snake pics on there plus a jar of peanut butter lol

https://www.instagram.com/mthurston0001/

[mthurston0001]

Oh and I have a herpstat 2 an cheap (analog?) Petco temp gauge and a laser thermometer