I think you are making a big mistake tube feeding a snake after only a few days. Tube feeding is extremely stressful, potentially dangerous to the snake, and decreases the chance that it will feed by itself soon.



Now that you have a few calories in the snake, don't do anything to it for a week or two. Don't handle it, don't stress it, and certainly don't tube feed it again.



I have had hundreds of baby sandboas over the years and I have tube fed a total of 2. Those two eventually died and never started eating on their own. Every other one started eating on its own without tube feeding.



Have you tried:

- braining pinkies?

- offering fuzzies (sometimes snakes like mice with fur)?

- live vs dead pinkies?

- offering a handful of live pinkies (a nest of mice)?

- feeding at night/day/dusk?

- start feeding (putting a pinkie in the snake's mouth the freezing)?

- being patient?



I have had a number of sandboas that went 6-8 months before they took their first meal. East African/Kenyan sandboas are usually not that tough.
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Chris Harrison

San Antonio, Texas

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