Hello Guys,

I bought a pair of cb. baby Vipera xanthina (ottoman viper) from a respectable breeder and the snakes looked nice and healthy when they arrived. (One of them was smaller than the other but looked fine).

I got them set up in their tanks with room temperature of mid 80s in day time and low 80s at night. After a week of getting them settled, I offered food. The bigger one had a great feeding response and ate immediately but the smaller one is refusing food. I have tried almost anythink that comes to mind like paper bag method, scneting the mouse, frozen vs. live but the little guy refuses. It looked quite thin to me yesterday (its been three weeks) so I tried to forcefeed it with a tiny pinky mouse but no luck with that either.

Can you guys give me more ideas? What should I do next?

I am keeping them in 10 gallon tanks (tehy are tiny) with no extra heat source accept for the room temp and paper bedding. Clean water is always available.

Thanks beforehand.
Yasin
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