I had snakes do that size thing.....eat anything for a few weeks then go back to small fuzz only.........an eastern milk would eat peromyscus for a few weeks after brumation, then anything, then after he'd stop in summer for awhile he'd eat pero's for awhile in the later part of summer till brumation again...





ball babies,,,I have the opposite.......I have a couple that ate..then stopped.I use smaller meals when they stop so they aren't as afraid and don't get hurt, seems a couple wanted bigger....they missed like 4 meals of hoppers so one day while feeding it's "here's a big mouse, eat or die, Bam, same saneks did it during test feedings in the next few weeks....small in, nothing, big, wham......



......when my critters stop eating normal stuff I just switch to a different prey...it has bitten me in the butt too many times,,,they don't always go back to regular mice/ rats....



rats and mice.....

(peromyscus,chinese hamster, african soft rats, gerbils,I have always...)

and I have used syrian hamster,russian hamster, degus ,spiny mice,guinea pigs, rabbits and chicks.....



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snakes train us all the time.--as you mentioned earlier......

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(I love how people have a company name and all , maybe even a website,BEFORE they know anything OR ever bred one snake clutch...!!LOL.makes me wonder when they ask questions that any paperback, piece of crap book would answer)......

just a thought.....

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