Hypo Feeding Problems

[blackcrystal22]

Change her enclosure and hides, wait a week and let her settle, then offer.

I bought live mice at Petco for quite awhile when I had a small number of snakes. At $2 a pop, it's not cheap, but if she'll eat it, that's what you have right now. As an adult, all she would need are 3 adults, no biggie.

Try a small-medium adult, weighing around 20-25g. If you have to buy it now, and grow it up for a week to ensure it has had proper food and water(and to get a little bigger), that's fine too.

If she refuses, you can either return it to the store, or keep it until the next week.

But really, if their environment is correct and they are happy with it, I've not really seen a live mouse refused(unless you have my first snake Amani, who likes to do this winter fast crap, doofus snake).

I've been having a similar problem and I was directed here. My thread is this one: click?

You said that you haven't seen anyone refuse a live mouse. My snake has refused live every time. :[

Also, this may be a dumb question but if I were to move him from my 20gal to a smaller tub, how on earth do you heat those things?
If I hooked up a lamp I'd be afraid it would melt it or something.

[starmom]

Oh jeez Jess, let me show you another thread that is going on in the boa section. Jimi posted great pictures of how you heat an individual tub. I'm sorry to be directing you all over, but the pictures are really good! The thread is here: http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...t=68935&page=3

[kc261]

You said that you haven't seen anyone refuse a live mouse. My snake has refused live every time. :[

Becky didn't quite say that. She said IF their environment is correct and they are happy with it, THEN she has never seen a live mouse refused.

Snakes feeling insecure or otherwise unhappy with their environment (temps wrong, humidity too low, no good hides, etc) is a very common reason for feeding refusals.

[starmom]

Woo hoo hoo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!

Went to Petco this evening and picked up a 21g mouse (for $2.49) and took it home. Pre-scented for one hour; long enough for the mouse to chew through the little cardboard box and go scurrying around the half tub. Not to worry, she did not get out and so we picked her up and put her in the Hypo's side of the tub. We were in stealth mode, tippy-toeing and using a tiny flash light pointed away from the snake. We checked back in 30 minutes and the mouse was GONE!!!!

Thanks so much Becky for the excellent advice.
I needed to be told to break down and get a darned live mouse; not the end of the frozen/thawed world!!!!!

I suppose I'll be doing this for several weeks for her; actually I think I'll be doing this until she puts on a few hundred grams.

A question: Because she is becoming triangular in body shape, should I feed her every 5 days on this size of mouse for the next few weeks??

[SatanicIntention]

I wouldn't worry about it. Every 7 days should be fine so you're not shocking her back into non-feed mode. You want her to get comfortable with eating and get aggressive.

My babies get fed every 7 days unless they are under 100g, then it's every 5-6.

I'm so happy for you!

[starmom]

Okay- will do!!
I'll also keep feeding her on a Monday so that she gets only the mouse scent and not the rat scent when I feed the rest of the crew on Thursdays.
Oh, I am so happy Becky!! While I can't give you any rep points, I will give you big hugs