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mine have been off feed for months guessing about 4 that sucks!!! i raise rodents and just hate the fact they eat so sparingly its really driving me bananas!!

i've had a few that went off for several months as well. I also breed my feed, a deep freezer can do wonders.

Pitoon

not when you feed live!

Most of my snakes fed so little for the last several months I separated most of my male and female rodents and brought breeding to almost a halt. Now I guess its spring cause all of a sudden they're eating like crazy, I may have to buy rodents. CM

i've also done that in the past, separate when they are not eating. But it always seems that they begin to eat again the moment you are short of feed. then i have to go out and buy for almost 1.5 months until the litters are born and get big enough to feed.

i just keep breeding and freeze what i don't use. once i get a large enough stock in the deep freeze i just the sell frozen and continue on like that.

Pitoon

My previous ball python went off feed for 7 months straight. Then one day, it just started eating like a pig again.
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1.0.0 Dumerils Boa
1.0.0 Royal Python

I know, it's frustrating as hell. My biggest female hasn't even attempted to eat since mid November. But, she isn't losing weight and has shed 3 times since then. So at least I know she's still growing. I'm only offering every 3 weeks until she takes.

That said though, all of mine are on F/T. So I'm sure your going nuts about now.

I had a 2200gr. Male go off feed for 8and a half months and when he started eating again he was down to 1654 gr. . David