I have a hatchling from this year that is not eating. She ate a mouse every week up until this past month, when she has refused food. We fed her freshly-killed, still-warm mice. Now I have tried that, plus frozen/thawed, and she merely ignores them like she has no interest in food.
My concern is that she is such a young animal and still needs to do alot of growing. She does not look thin yet, but she also has not defecated in a few weeks. She had a good shed two weeks ago, and I attributed her lack of appetite to her need to shed, but that's done now. She appears disinterested in food and just goes back in the hide, and even ignores the f/t mouse I left in the tank overnight. Could going without food harm such a young, growing snake? Help me!
I have her in a 10g-sized rubbermaid container, heatpad and all the right temps with 2 hide spots and a waterbowl and newspaper substrate. Thanks!
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*~Ginevive~*
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Not eating hatchling, could growth be stunted?
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>>I have a hatchling from this year that is not eating. She ate a mouse every week up until this past month, when she has refused food. We fed her freshly-killed, still-warm mice. Now I have tried that, plus frozen/thawed, and she merely ignores them like she has no interest in food.
>>My concern is that she is such a young animal and still needs to do alot of growing. She does not look thin yet, but she also has not defecated in a few weeks. She had a good shed two weeks ago, and I attributed her lack of appetite to her need to shed, but that's done now. She appears disinterested in food and just goes back in the hide, and even ignores the f/t mouse I left in the tank overnight. Could going without food harm such a young, growing snake? Help me!
>>I have her in a 10g-sized rubbermaid container, heatpad and all the right temps with 2 hide spots and a waterbowl and newspaper substrate. Thanks!
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>>*~Ginevive~*
>>[image] http://www.angelfire.com/pq/autumnjenleaves/beanerblue.JPG [/image]
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- Joel Smith
"If you're not part of the solution, you're still part of the problem"
I just did; I even tried several different mouse colors. My friend has a petstore and "lent" me a few mice of various colors to try out. No response 
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*~Ginevive~*
