About 2 months ago I bought a baby ball python. He went like 3-4 weeks without eating. I tried everything from warming up the frozen mice to "body temp" to placing him in a nother tank to feed him in. The one day he just ate. And he ate the next week too. But he hasnt eaten again for the past couple weeks. Any ideas to get him to eat? He seems to be hungry and his skin looks "loose."
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Ball python not eating..
nikimae13
Sep 04, 2006 07:15 PM
Replies (4)
nikimae13
Sep 04, 2006 08:10 PM
he also acts afraid of the mice that im feeding him.
exitwounds
Sep 05, 2006 01:53 AM
does the snake have a hide? one of ma babies from last yr only ate from his hide for the first month or so until he got used to the idea that mice were yummy for him. you could also maybe try smaller mice to get him goin.
Raptorred
Sep 05, 2006 05:48 AM
When i got my new snake 4 weeks agoshe would only eat from her favourite hide. I just placed the small mouse partially inside the hide at night and it was gone by morning since then she has eaten fine. From the advice that I was given loose skin can be a sign of dehyration so it might be usfull to give a soak for 5-10 mins in luke warm water. I wish you the best of luck, hope this helps and she starts to feed for you.
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0.2 Dogs
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0.1 wife
j3nnay
Sep 05, 2006 10:02 AM
You can try prekilling a mouse immediately before trying to feed it to her, leaving it in there over night... Also are you leaving the room when you feed her? My snakes won't eat unless they can't see anyone in the room. It also helps to turn the lights off.
You can also try bumping her down to hoppers, to see if maybe the size of the mice is intimidating her. At the very least, you'll get something in there, and hopefully she'll start taking mice after that.
Also make sure she's nice and warm. The babies we have at my work (I work at a petstore) won't eat unless their cage is good and warm, and they haven't been handled a whole lot prior to eating.
good luck and i hope you get something down her!
~jenny
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1.1 normal ball pythons (cindy and Nameless)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
2.1 betta fishes (Vicious, Killer, and Butters)
3.1 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
2.25 chickens (Jacques the rooster and his harem)
but what I really want is more ball pythons!
