Like the previous poster said, these guys need quite a bit of acclimation to get comfy enough to eat.



I usually wait at least a week (again, like the previous poster said) before offering any food. My primary concern is usually to get the snake eating what it was eating before (because then I know I am keeping the snake at least as well as the previous owner was), so I offer whatever the previous owner was feeding. If the snake doesn't eat live food within 15 minutes, I remove it and try again in a week. If it doesn't eat F/T or prekilled overnight, I try again in a week.



Right now, the best thing to do is try and minimize stressful things in the snake's life, because stressful things are usually the reason the snake isn't eating. Make sure it's in a quiet room of the house, that it has a few places to hide (on both cool and warm sides of the cage), and don't handle it until it's eaten a few times for you.

If everything else is fine, then all that's left is to wait out the snake.



Just be patient and stick to offering food once a week until it eats.



~jenny
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