I have a 2 year old male w. hognose. He was a fantastic eater as a neonate and for the first year I had him until the first winter. He has gone off feed last 2 winters and eventually ate again and never lost weight or behaved odd or anything. He went off feed this winter, no big suprise, and I kept offerring to see when he would feed again. Well he continued to refuse and I upped temps a little, no response. I started to notice weight loss so i tossed a live pinkie in there. He took it after a while, refused the next one a few days later and took 2 at once last week (all live). I figured he was beginning to normalize again and tried a F/t yesterday. He wouldn't even look at it. He usually won't react to them until they move, or flintch, then I see his predatory instict take over. He slowly jerks closer and closer with every movement and eventually eats it. I am pretty conifident he'll eat ok on live but it would it a lot easier and cheaper to get him back on F/T once his weight gets back up. Any tips?
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Can't get back on F/T
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Do you have anything you can scent them with?
reako45
No amphibians, at best some sheds from my other snake. He's taken more live fuzzies so he's feeding again, I'm just going to try moving it around somehow to trigger the predatory response. If i use my finger or pen and perch over the tank he hides and won't look it at. I got a WC black racer to take F/T by tying it to my fishing pole and "jigging" it around. If i was closer than 5-6 feet to the tank he would just strike the glass and ignore the mouse.
