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Hey guys, my green (about 9 months old) has not eaten in 3 weeks. The last thing he ate was a thawed mouse and three times now I have tried feeding him live ones and he wont. I left them in his cage for half an hour, dangled them in front of him, he just tries to hide and gets scared whenever the mouse touches his face! Is this typical of condas when they have some specific thing wrong with them, and if so, what? Could it be that he LOVED the thawed one so much, he's just become to lazy to attack prey now? Well, during those 3 weeks, I did have him on newspaper in a sterile cage because I thought he had mites and was decontaminating him. Then I put jungle earth in his cage when I thought they were all gone. Then I saw more bugs and thought I didn't kill all the mites so I put him back into a sterile cage. Now I believe these bugs to not be mites at all, but rather just some sort of bug inherent to that substrate and they can be easily killed with a few mins in the microwave whatever they are/were! Do condas get upset easily when you mess their cages around a lot? I am going to try thawed again and hope that works. What should I do for him, and what should I do if he does not eat the thawed mouse? Thanks guys. I know condas can go a while without eating, but he's still a juvi and this is kinda getting to the really worried level.

well buddy buddy,i can have a question for you,actually a few.for starters,if he was eating frozen why would you ever go back to live?seems kinda foolish.second i have never bugs inherently come with bedding and on that note...you should just keep the newspaper bottom,period.if your snake ate for you already,it sound the battle is half won.and yes all the chaos and cage changes could have him stressed enough to refuse eating.
my advice,stick to frozen and never go back.stick to newspaper or something similar and never go back.
hope it helps.
rob