I have my first African Rock Python here and he's being stubborn as hell. I'm 95% sure it's a male, I haven't probed him, but he's 8 or 9 feet and has a huge set of spurs.That,and he mated with an albino Burm that I have that I know for a fact is a female.They were locked up for a about an hour.Anyway, he's been here for several months and has yet to eat.He moves around well,he soaks in his tub and he's even had one good shed since he's been here.He doesn't SEEM to be losing weight.The only thing I have noticed is that he strikes a LOT, but has yet to connect.When I'm cleaning his cage he strikes at me and sometimes actually hits me,but never actually get teeth in,it's almost like he's headbutting me.Does that make sense to anyone?He does the same thing when he strikes at rats, he strikes a few times and always misses.So I put him in a tub with a pre-killed rat and he sat with it for about an hour just looking at it.So, I turned out the lights and left him with it for a couple more hours and he still didn't take it.I gave him a larger rat to maybe give him a bigger target,and I also tried a smaller rat thinking the maybe the big ones were intimidating him,I got nothing.I tried some store bought chicken thighs,because that's what some of my other smaller guys get, he didn't want that either.The guy who had him before me said he was eating medium rats for him,but never specified PK or live,and I lost his contact info so.....I have a snake that just won't eat.I open to ANY suggestions,I DO NOT want this guy starving on my watch.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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0.1.0 Burmese Python 12'- "Baby"
1.0.0 Albino Granite Burmese Python 6.5'-"Capone"
0.1.0 Albino Burmese Python 11'-"Lacy Underall"
1.0.0 Reticulated Python 8.5'-"McLovin"
1.0.0 African Rock Python 9'-"Pauly Walnuts"
1.0.0 BCI 7.5'-"Mr.Pink"
0.2.0 BCI 6'-"Scarlett O'Hara & Sloane Peterson"
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons-"Radar O'Reilly & Carol Anne"

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