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I followed Randy's advice and one of my hondurans is eating (small fuzzies). The other though is going on 44 days since he ate. I've tried all the easier solutions--cupping, brianing, etc. I'm thinking of buying a lizard and using it's tail at this point--anoles work OK for these guys or should I try something else? I'd catch a sceloporus or something but outs won't be out for about another 6 weeks.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

Does the snake look real thin? If not, I would not worry too much. 44 days is nothing, as long as he/she has good gradient and is otherwise healthy. I have a mt. king that went off feed MAY 25th the two last years, and just took her first meal of this year last week.(pretty much did the same thing last year) As long as they have a cool area to retreat to they can go a LONG time without a meal.

Joe

It hasn't budged on wieght since it stopped eating--22 grams.

I just feel inadequate :lol: It's been a long time since I had a colubrid go over a month (well, excluding burmation).

The other's eating a fuzzy a week real regular and growing a small bit.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

I forgot any of the details you may have previously posted on those guy's, but was it ever eating with regularity on F/T before?

I agree with the others about it not being a big deal yet, but they generally stay eating just fine if they have been unless something has changed. Could be seasonal environment, or whatever else that may have possibly changed, don't know.

Is it a SUPER SPOOKY individual?, or just a typical "spooky" youngster?..LOL!, because they sure as heck are when young..

Anyway, yeah, if it's weight is still good like you mentioned, no biggie. I would guess it is jprobably just a particular critter for right now if it was feeding well regularly before.

If it doesn't eat within the next couple weeks, you might have to use some other scenting tricks that might turn it on that I have in mind.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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Good advice Doug. My female hondo was a SPOOKY hatchling and would only eat when she was in her hide box and I left the food in there with her. That lasted all the way until her first brumation. Now of course they both chow down......

Joe

Yeah, very true Joe. Every once in a while, you get a juvenile here and there that is extremely quirky and so nervous they don't want to settle down enough to eat after they have seen a person (huge monster) until they are alone with the meal in a dark warm place for a while after this happens.

Out of the countless Hondo hatchlings I have produced over the years, it is very rare that they won't accept F/T immediately or at least after just a fairly short while with patience. But many years ago I had a hatchling that wouldn't look at a pinky either live or F/T no matter what I did for a LOOONG time. So I indroduced an appropriately-sized anole on the end of some long tongs, and BAM!, it grabbed it in a heartbeat. So I scented with anole for just a few more times, and it naturally began to associate the pinkie's scent as being food until after a few times of scenting, it accepted un-scented F/T from that point on.

In Nicaragua and Honduras, I am absolutely certain their main table fair would probably small lizards anyway, even though most all do generally take rodents right off the bat.

I guess his was eating foe a while on something, or it wouldn't be big enough for fuzzies anyway. But I don't know how long Paul (varanid) has had them.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Got them in december. They both ate really, really well for December and the first week or two in January, then went on a fast. The one's eating again, but this one isn't.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

Oh, okay. In that case it sounds like the one is just a bit slower getting back with the seasonal feeding program is all. I would bet money that within the next few weeks now that it is into March that it will start feeding again normally. It will be nothing for the snake to go for another while longer until it does.

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Most likely you are worrying for nothing. Well, that's what I think anyway. I've had plenty of well fed reptiles stop eating for awhile this time of year, then go back on. I wouldn't bother with scenting and all of that if the snake has taken mice w/o hesitation before.

It is when they start getting skinny or regurgitate that you worry. But if plump and seemingly outwardly healthy, well, not much to do.

Good advice from both Joe and Doug... though I understand all to well your anxiety a month or two without eating is no big thing if everything else as you say is fine.

Offer her something every week in an area where she's in her comfort/save space and she'll come around.

Gerry

Don't listen to JoeCop two years w/o a meal is too long.
"Somebody get that snake a hamburger"

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"He's down in the basement staring at his snakes " My Wife
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Doug L

Jeeeez. Who said two years. Look what the cat dragged in-----a tri-colored crazy man. LOL. What is up Douglas!!! You getting ready to do some flipping?

Joe

lol @ cat draged in
Old herpers never die,they just smell that way

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"He's down in the basement staring at his snakes " My Wife
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Doug L

44 days isnt' two years Yes, I've offeredl ive pinkies, no luck still.

I'll just keep offering once a week or so I guess.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

I think Doug had forgot his reading glasses and saw two years somehow.

Joe

Dust off your google earth
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"He's down in the basement staring at his snakes " My Wife
Wake me whens it's april

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Doug L