I recently bought a juvie western hognose, which ate two pinks the first night home. It's been two weeks, and has not eaten, nor shown any inclination to eat.
I'm in CT, and my ambient temps are a little cool. Do these snakes shut down in the fall? Or is there possibly something in my husbandry? Or maybe a shed cycle?
Hot spot is mid 80's in the cage...about 30%-40% humidity...two hides...cypress mulch as a substrate.
I keep large boids, and other than one ball python of mine, none of my other snakes shut down eating for fall.
Makes me wonder if it's something I'm doing wrong.

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• Western stopped eating - burmaboy, Tue Oct 24 20:18:25 2006
• RE: Western stopped eating - durrus, Wed Oct 25 10:11:47 2006
• RE: Western stopped eating - lateralis, Wed Oct 25 12:11:16 2006
• RE: Western stopped eating - polosue25, Sun Oct 29 18:08:27 2006
• Mine too!! - FloridaHogs, Sun Oct 29 21:10:53 2006
• RE: Mine too!! - polosue25, Mon Oct 30 22:34:24 2006
• my yearling too..it's that time of year. - wisema2297, Fri Oct 27 11:23:53 2006