What are some good ways to get a nonfeeder to feed?
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Not eating.......help!!
zeus1228
May 28, 2010 12:59 PM
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thunderpaws
May 28, 2010 01:30 PM
Offer it food once a week. Change up what you offer if you want and just keep offering it ONCE a week. When a snake stops eating most people start freaking out and offer it the same food day and night thinking that is going to work, when it only makes it worse. I am guessing you are offering food to the BP more than once a week... What ever day and what ever time the snake decides it is hungry it will eat on that one day during the one week you offer it a rodent. This is providing your snake is 100 Percent healthy and the food item is appropriately sized for the BP. BPs can go months with out eating and be perfectly fine.
Bill
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snakeeyes1618
May 28, 2010 03:47 PM
>>What are some good ways to get a nonfeeder to feed?
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Sometimes you just have to wait them out. I had a piar go off of food for 13 months. I used ASF to sprk them back on. Not sure if i can give them all the credit they might have just been ready to eat again. Now they are pounding live.....now I have to ween them off of that and back on to FT liek they were. Make sure you give fresh water and keep the temps as stable as you can. Be patient. Just make sure your husbandry is on point.
Scott
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snakeeyes1618
May 28, 2010 03:49 PM
Thanks to Alice Cobb for your advice!!
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Scott
"The most powerful person never has to use it"
ohernz
May 30, 2010 09:17 AM
I have a male that hasn't eaten since November. Most of my snakes went through their non-eating stage in the winter and most of them (except pregnant females) are eating . This male still refuses to eat. He is a big boy, so I'm not that concerned. Yes they do go through periods of not eating. keep offering food one a week.
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