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    Re: BP acts weird when feeding/won't eat

    Quote Originally Posted by ballpythonsrock2 View Post
    Sometimes I wonder if people read what is posted very carefully. He said he hasn't handled since it has started refusing.
    Also please quote to me where he said or even implied he fed every night. I didn't see that, he didn't say how often he fed at all.

    I agree about the feeder size. And I agree about maybe feeding live for a while. Feeding at night and in front of the hide with dim light is good.

    To OP, I would wait a week since your last offering. Maybe feed an adult live mouse. When doing f/t you could try what I did with great success last night. I laid the frozen feeder above the enclosure for an hour. My snake came out smelling and reaching upward toward the feeder. Which is usually always does. Then after that hour with the feeder still pretty frozen and having got my snakes attention. I just dropped it in an old ice cream bucket with cool water, (faucet cool ) after about another half hour with the belly now soft and defrosted I heated it up real good with the hair dryer till the fur was real dry and warm and the feeder was up to about a hundred. Using my temp gun I waited till it dropped to the upper 80's and put it in and it was bam.

    I use to leave it out till total air thaw but I have compromised with Bogertophis one hour air which gets my snake out and hungry then cool water thaw away from the enclosure (in old ice cream bucket set inside bath tub) and then the hair dryer. Worked like a charm. I didn't use a bag I just put it in cool water but you can use a bag if you want. PS This new method of air/cool water cuts thawing time about an hour. This feeder chart is great to use.
    Thank you for reading everything! I used to feed every week when he was actually eating since he didn't move up to appropriate sized rats but now that he's stopped completely I just offer whenever I go to feed my other snake which is every 10 days.

    I've considered feeding live but I really hate having to do that. I'm going to try what you said with the f/t but if I'm not able to get him to eat after all of this I'm going to try live.

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