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RE: What's your trick?

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Posted by: PHLdyPayne at Sun Jun 13 12:40:13 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]  
   

Try a live rat fuzzy..rather small for her I know but a small prey item would work better to jump start her appetite without overloading her digestive system.

Cover the front of her cage so she doesn't get much if any ambient light during the day (in the wild they hide in termite mounds and other fully dark areas anyway.)

Leave the live rat fuzzy in the cage with her over night or at least several hours. As a live rat fuzzy doesn't have their teeth, or just starting to get them, it won't pose a danger to your snake to leave it alone with it.

It seems to me your main problem may be due to your hovering around the cage making her nervous. Though I certainly understand you don't want to leave live rodents in with the snake unsupervised.
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