I picked up 3 JCP last november. Each form a diff. vender at diff. shows. The ages of the animals are unknown to me. The male is about 3 1/2 feet. I keep him alone in a cage with an ambient temp of 80 and a warm end of 90. He eats every thing I offer. #1 female is 5feet long and takes frozen/ thawed rats most of the time, occasionally refusing. She is housed with another female 5 1/2 foot that has only fed once in 3 months on a fresh killed rat that was actually still twitching. I've offered prey in the same manner as well as live and frozen thawed since with the snake showing interest each time but never feeding. I've left food items in the cage overnight. I've separated the females without any different results. The females are kept At the same temps as the male... 80 with a warm end of of 90. The female that is not feeding is good body wt.. She is active in the cage, especially at night..... where as the feeding female is very inactive, hiding all the time. I am not experienced with this species and would appreciate any coments on the situation......Thanks.

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• JCP feeding habits question...... - Coach, Sun Mar 13 19:59:44 2005
• RE: JCP feeding habits question...... - Jim_O, Mon Mar 14 10:31:27 2005
• RE: JCP feeding habits question...... - Coach, Wed Mar 16 10:42:23 2005