Please Help, Me and My Baby Ball are Desperate

[Stewart_Reptiles]

It's not about assisting it's about getting them back on track and this is what needs to be done to a T https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...-hatchling-101

[Moose84]

It's not about assisting it's about getting them back on track and this is what needs to be done to a T https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...-hatchling-101

OP... Please take the above advice. In my opinion that 20L is waaaay to big for that snake and it doesn't feel secure. When they don't feel secure feeding is the first thing that goes. I know a ton of focus and comments have went into temps and thermostats which all need to be said but the FIRST thing I would do with that snake is put it in something a LOT smaller as far as the enclosure goes. The above advice is the best I have seen on this long thread.

I will give you an example:

I purchased a BEAUTIFUL sub-adult from an excellent breeder a while back.. He was used to being in a rack. I wanted to keep him in a rack but my son insisted on a larger tank to "show him off..." Like I expected, he food struck him for 3 weeks.. I cleared a rack space for him, gave him 3-4 days to settle in and dropped live prey in there and BANG... Have had no feeding issues since.

To close it out, get that snake out of that big tank and into something smaller and it should eat. Once the snake is on track you can always transition it back to a tank.

Good luck..