niether of my big girls are eating- its been 4 months for one of them, its been 2 months for the other.



Regarding the cage- mine are HUGE.

i use a 'light box'- i use plywood and build a box big enough to hold 2 clamp lights with NO clamp on them. Then i use that metal wire mesh- similar to chicken wire- just smooth, and they can rub thier noses on it but not get burned.

I have the same heating issue.



and with the lights- humidity is an issue as well.



I have a small kiddy pool in thier cages for water and they can get thier entire body inside to soak and they have pretty good sheds this way...

but duing shed- good luck getting them out of the water...



anyway-

If your cages are big enough- try a kiddy pool- it doesnt help the ambient humidity so much but they do shed better.

and so long as the snakes aren't getting skinny or anything- i wouldn't worry about them not eating.



The girl that hasn't eaten in 4 months has lost a whole 6 lbs.... which dropped her weight down to a "puny" 79 lbs.... i'm not worried...



Beth
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• not eating - pamirsburms, Wed Jan 9 04:32:07 2008
• RE: not eating - laurarfl, Wed Jan 9 07:17:39 2008
• RE: not eating - OKReptileRescue, Wed Jan 9 11:23:49 2008
• RE: not eating - HappyHillbilly, Wed Jan 9 22:26:54 2008
• RE: Chickens - jrsnakes, Fri Jan 11 21:32:27 2008
• RE: not eating/humidity - pamirsburms, Wed Jan 16 23:06:56 2008