juvenile ball python WILL NOT EAT!!

[dextersmom]

Nobody is condescending you. We're trying to help.

But if you did enough research you'd know you MUST REGULATE ALL HEAT SOURCES with a thermostat.

Your temps wouldn't have been too low

You don't measure the temp of substrate, but the glass surface itself.

Pinkies aren't even recognized by BPs as food because they're WWWWAAAAAYYYYY too small.

Just because someone has a pet doesn't mean it's properly cared for. If this employee has a snake and didn't tell you that a thermostat is A MUST, he doesn't know what he's talking about. If he told you to feed a pinkie he doesn't know what he's talking about.

This forum mentions the "3 meals before handling" almost every day. It's in countless threads.

We have a thermostat, that's how we knew the enclosure was too cold and the bulb was too weak when the weather changed.

Also, we know pinkies are too small on a regular basis, but since he had regurgitated his mouse, and didn't have the proper amount of digestive flora in his stomach, the pinkies were meant to be a temporary solution.

Finally most of the reading I've done hasn't been in this forum... There are LOTS of resources out there and I'm trying to synthesize all of it into usable advice. I came to this forum to ask questions and get clarification.