Mia is one of the picky ones.......

[Maybeka]

Ok, it sounds like you're doing everything the way I would have suggested. I heat prey in water too. I find the extra hydration can't hurt.

Some are just smaller than others, some grow slower than others. Without knowing more about her background (parents sizes, hatch weight, how soon they started eating as a hatchling, etc...). As long as she's maintaining a good body structure I wouldn't sweat it.



Perfect example of how different things work for different people and different animals. There really are no "one size fits all" answers.

I stopped feeding my BPs on a schedule because I was getting refusals. Since I started basically letting them "tell" me when they're hungry (by observing behavior at night) I haven't had any refusals and they both eat year round.

Silly little BPs.

That's what we were doing at first, we fed her on a schedule and it didn't work for long at all. Now we wait until she shows us that she's hungry, that's usually the only time she will eat.

She was a little bitty thing that my son had purchased at ….. PetSmart (yes he knows now ….). If you look back at my posts you'll see that she had some major issues with her tongue when he brought her home and he had to assist feed her (with help from a friend of his who has ball pythons also) and as a matter of fact we didn't see a tongue for the first 3 weeks he had her. We REALLY thought she didn't have a tongue at all.

Funny thing was that the vet at PetSmart didn't see reptiles...very odd they sell them but don't take care of them but whatever …

Fortunately we already had a very good reptile vet of our own because we own Sulcata Tortoises and a Bearded Dragon. The vet said she was just probably a few months old and she had gone a bit after my son got her without eating before he finally assist fed her, and vet said she was very small.

The vet had to inside her mouth and find her tongue. That was the first time we actually saw her tongue come out. For the first few weeks he had her we didn't think she even had a tongue and we were quite worried! It was almost like it was stuck inside, like a person who's tongue tied. Once the vet took care of it, my son assist fed her a few more meals and then one day she struck and ate by herself. (it was like party in our house when she actually took that first mouse)