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I have an amazon tree boa that is not eating. I have tried pinkies and newts. I have raised the temps and humidity to help. Any other things that I can do to get it to eat would be great. It is about 3 months old.
thanks

Ok I have some Ideas for you.

IMO stay away from the newts if you can. Get yourself an anole to scent(rub on the Pinkie) the pinkie. This sometimes works great. If this does not work you could also tease the snake with the anole and get him in feeding mode!(make sure the snake does not grab the anole) Just let him get a few wiffs of it. Then switch to a pinkie and he/she may take it.

Another way is place the little guy in a smaller container and place the pinkie in over night.(never try this with anything but a pinkie!) This works great also with a bunch of snakes!

I freeze all anoles or other reptiles I use for scenting to kill anything that might be useing it as a host lol.

I hope this helps in some way
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I have done that with the pinkies. She just strikes the pinkies and kills them and lets them go. LOL. really annoying. Thanks.

I had this problem with my adult male. He would strike it coil and then not eat it. I found the problem was me. I would be in the room feeding the rest of my snakes and he would kill it and then leave it because I bothered him. So I changed my feeding ways I would feed him last and right after he took it I would quietly cover is encloser with a towl or blanket and walk out of the room. and I would leave it like that over night. and the second time I did it he ate.

Is your ATB in a high traffic area in the house? Living room or anywhere else where people are at all the time? This may be the problem. ATBs hate company lol. And most not all but most hate eating with people watching.

another thing you could try is splitting thre head of the pinkie open this works sometimes.

Also have you tried to feed about an hour after lights out? This is another trick that sometimes works. Also right after misting them down sometimes works.

I am just putting some ideas out here lol.
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it's not in a heavy traffic area. there is another snake that is with him but it eats well. I will try covering the feeding area tonight and feed and see if it will eat. Thanks

Hey, GGR gave some great advice, also... I was able to get alot of my picky neos to eat fuzzys dieced up. What you do is take about 10 live fuzzys, put them in a bag and soffacate them (this gets a good sent all over them) next take a sharp knife (Dont do this if your a little "weasey" and cut a fuzzy into a few pieces, also cuting open the head of the mouse and spreading a little brains on the fuzzy helps. Sounds grose but my baby ammys ate them up as fast as they could. Good luck,
Philip

p.s

Try turning the lights out and leting it be pitch black for a hour or two, mist really hard, I was able to get my picky female to eat the other day like this,

I talked with a couple people at the Kentucky Reptile Expo today. They think that the snake is stuck in a shed. So I am trying to increase the humidity more to help. It has been a long time since the snake had shed.
thanks

Something that has worked well with me is to use the ATB's agressions to get him to feed. Take a pinky on tongs, and lightly slap it in the face and on its body. This normally ticks it off enough to try and put an end to the bother and eat it.

Also teps and humidity will keep them from eating too. What are your temps at? And humidity?