I had three pueblan 07 hatchlings go off feeding this fall.One was exposed to an inadvertant drop in temperature to about 63 degrees for a night. Another was eating well from August until early Nov and a third was a second clutch and was a reluctant feeder since hatched in Sept...Most advised me all three were unlikely to feed again unles brumated for about 60 days at 60 degrees...I kept the second two going with assist feeding, force feeding, scenting etc. but was tiring of that...The first snake I mentioned did begin feeding again after 14 days and raising the daytime temperature in the room from around 80 degrees to 84-86 degrees.It took a live fuzzie crawling all over him in his hide box to get him started but that did get him over the hump!.. The wondered if the other two needed to be brumated so long. They were not being prepped for breeding, just to get them thinking it's springtime and time to eat again...I picked an arbitrary time period of 21 days to brumate at 60 degrees in darkness... I brought them up from 60 to 84 degrees in 5 days Yep, they ate thawed pinkies without hesitation on the fifth day and ate again four days later. Just something to think about!

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