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W/C finally ate
We have had this WC in our care since the beginning of June, and she has refused to eat since then. We tried every single way to house her, from the 32 quart blinded tub, to the tall tub with 4 inches of cypress and an underground hide, blinded. Anything to simulate her in the wild and make her feel comfortable. We would feed her a f/t; feed it off the tongs, or lay it next to her tub. When we tried live [teenager size] she was very interested and struck, missed. So we took that as her being stressed still.
She doesn't show any more signs of "Lights are on, but nobody's home." [from VPI's guide] Every Saturday she waits to be offered a rat, she's in hunting mode.
A few weeks ago, we put her in a 41 qt blinded, fed f/t laid next to hide, still no go.
Finally 1 week ago we put her back in a 32 qt, newspaper, no blind. still no L.O.N.H syndrome, she's aware and ready. We decided we were going to house her like all the other snakes.
I've recently had 2 litters of 15 ea. so we fed everyone 2 weeks old rats last night. She was the 3rd to be fed, drop in the rat, and within a minute, WHAM!! She slammed that thing and put him down quick. After about 15 minutes, dropped another one in and she didn't hesitate for a second! Just got that second one again and made us proud.
I'm very excited that she finally ate, after every different way we tried to feed her, the normal tub set up worked just fine. It could be the size we were feeding her just was too big. She's a big girl herself, and has only lost a total of 90-100 grams since she's been with us, bringing her down to 1280 at the beginning of a\August. We would always feed her the small rat, around 50-60 grams, we never thought it would be too much for her. But apparently a 2 week old has put her back on feed. She'll be fed live babes until we can work her back up to the small rat size. Hopefully everything goes well from here.
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