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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