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I've got a pac. gopher that has not eaten for about a month. I held off food for two weeks because I was not certain if a pink I found in the enclosure was a uneaten, but nasty, corpse or if it was nasty because it was a regurge. After waiting the two weeks I offered small pinks, first live then dead, but she has refused all for the last couple of weeks. Currently she is residing in my Q room at a friends house but I will drop by there to look at her mouth and to try again to get her to eat. I just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on what might entice her to eat, what might be interfering with her appetite, or additional things I should check for besides mouth rot.

She did eat a few meals after arriving to the enclosure in the Q room but has not eaten since the first couple of meals.

Sean.
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1.1 BRB
0.1 Pacific Gophersnake(unproven Hypo)
1.0 Amel Pacific Gophersnake
0.1 Striped Anery Pacific Gophersnake
1.1 Triple Het TPRS's
0.1 Silver TPRS
1.1 Amel Bloodred Corns
0.1 Abbott Okeetee Corn
0.1 Blizzard Bloodred Corn
1.1 Thayeri Kingsnakes
0.1 Reeve's Turtle
0.2 Amstaff's
1.0 Pudytat

could be as simple as a response to shortened day length and or temperature drop. it may be wanting to brumate. do a search of this topic and read what has been said about it below. good luck.

I'll keep that in mind. The reason I was not thinking brumation is that it is a 08 hatchling and the other 08 hatchling pac gopher in the same room is eating fine.

I did a forum search and nothing came up for "not feeding" or for "brumation". I'll manually look through later. As I said above I would not worry if it was a yearling or older where they have more body mass but a hatchling trying to brumate makes me worry. Also she hangs out in the warmer section of the enclosure.

Sean.
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1.1 BRB
0.1 Pacific Gophersnake(unproven Hypo)
1.0 Amel Pacific Gophersnake
0.1 Striped Anery Pacific Gophersnake
1.1 Triple Het TPRS's
0.1 Silver TPRS
1.1 Amel Bloodred Corns
0.1 Abbott Okeetee Corn
0.1 Blizzard Bloodred Corn
1.1 Thayeri Kingsnakes
0.1 Reeve's Turtle
0.2 Amstaff's
1.0 Pudytat

Sean,
I had a couple of my holdback plains hogs (08s) go off feed in mid October, I cooled them for only 1 month (Nov. 15th to Dec. 18th), & they have eaten twice since warming them up. Others from the same clutch never stopped eating.

Dan Eby