I have an eastern milk snake and i am having issues with geting he/she to eat f/t mice hoppers. The snake is almost 3' on the dot. I am seeking help as it is a truly beutiful snake and i do not want it to perish besides not eating it is easy to handle and seems happy in its cage burrowing and coming out to see what im doing.

I have a few questions about feeding.

1. I read that the size of the food item shuld be only slightly larger than the widest part of the snake. Is this true?

2. If the above question is true the hoppers shuld be of corect size for my snake. Shuld i try live to see if it will eat?

When i first obtained this snake i had tryed feeding but it wuldnt take i noticed it was aproching a shed so i stoped trying to feed untill it had. Now it is 3 days after the shed i placed the snake and f/t hopper in a med sized container for feeding it showed absolutly no intrest in eating the mouse but more intrest in moving it around ( almost like testing to see if it was alive) then showed no intrest.

any advice is much apriciated.

cheers

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• eastern milksnake? - duster1971, Wed Sep 7 17:00:19 2011