I also have feeding troubles with my nearly 4 foot long, extremely finicky, W/C Great Basin Gopher snake of unknown gender. Go-Go was caught in May of 2002 between 1 and 2 miles away from my house. In general, s/he will usually only eat during the few months of late Spring and early Summer, and completely refuse food the rest of the year.

I would like my snake to eat something, even just one mouse, (and pass excrement) before going into Winter dormancy. Since s/he has not eaten much all year, I am worried that my Gopher snake will starve before next Spring's appatite return.

Over 95% of the time this snake will refuse to take any f/t, so I usually have to feed live; even though I know that is not the best for my snake, but try telling that to Go-Go.

Housing is a 55 gallon acrylic tank, with 5 interconnected cereal box hides for a substrate. Go-Go has been spending a lot of time lately trying to push through one corner of the tank, which knocks the extra hide box located there into the water dish.

How can I convince my Gopher snake to eat?

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• Feeding troubles - cynth201, Sun Oct 17 21:57:52 2010
• RE: Feeding troubles - DISCERN, Mon Oct 18 00:36:50 2010
• RE: Feeding troubles - monklet, Mon Oct 18 09:49:52 2010
• Feeding troubles - too - SnakeyLakey, Tue Oct 19 05:50:18 2010
• RE: Feeding troubles - too - monklet, Tue Oct 19 10:33:13 2010
• RE: Feeding troubles - too - metalpest, Sun Oct 24 10:46:52 2010