Meet Maxine (Max for short-Stranger Things)

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Does anyone have any recommendation on getting Maxine to eat. She’s 8 months old and only weighs 78 grams; she has not been a good eater since hatched. About 5 days ago I took her out of the 35 Liter tub and placed her in a 9 liter tub with sufficient clutter and hides. The temps on warm side is 91 degrees and cool side is 76-80. I do understand during the cooler months some of our snakes won’t eat as much, but she really hasn’t eaten much, ever! I’ve tried feeding her 2x last week (small eat fuzzies) with no luck. Today is feeding day I may try a rat pinkie tonight.

On the flip side my ball python is the same age and is already almost 400 grams.

Any help is greatly appreciated


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Hi,

I missed the "eating" part as I was admiring the pretty animal. I have a coasty myself and she was a very slow starter with food. She's still bizarre in certain ways. She was so strange at the beginning with feeding that she would only eat if I held her in one and and put the snout of the prey up to her nose. She'd gently open her mouth and take it.

I've used live rats, F/T rats, F/T chicks and quail and F/T rabbits.

Sometimes she'll only coil and not bite. Other times she'll bite and coil and then not eat.

BUT, when she's on she's on. She started small but she's full sized now.

Keep at it and go with Nicks advice.

My girl when she was young back in 2014 when I got her. She's a mutt. Coastal and likely jungle and or something else, nobody knows.


This is summer 2019 at over 7 feet.


They grow at their own pace. You'll end up with something 6 feet at minimum and possibly 9 if she's genetically predisposed to size.