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Ok.. so my CB baby female Green, Yaku, still hasn't eaten for me.. My boyfriend bought her for me as a birthday present on October 4th. She was around 2 months old then. She shows NO interested in food what so ever. Brained, hot, teased, leaving in cage, fresh killed, live.. Just no interest. Showed slightly more interest then very warm, brained mice, but that was it. How long does it take for baby condas to have their first shed? I know in the case of blood pythons, it can take up to 3 months for them to have their first sheds.. Do condas take a while as well before becoming interested in food? Maybe try some large feeder fish? She's kept in an aquatic set up, with rocks and flat driftwood basking sight..
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Currently keeping:
1.2 southern scrub pythons
1.0 reticulated python
1.0 albino burmese python
1.1 jungle carpet pythons
1.0 irian jaya carpet python
0.1 blood python
4.0 ball pythons
0.1 green anaconda
1.0 amazon tree boa
1.2 colombian redtail boas
1.1 argentine boas
1.0 sonoran boa
1.0 cancun boa
0.1 bullsnake
1.2 albino and het albino chinese beauty snakes
1.2 taiwan beauties
2.2 cornsnakes
3 sandfire bearded dragons
0.1 nile monitor
0.0.1 savannah monitor
2.5 leopard geckos

>>Ok.. so my CB baby female Green, Yaku, still hasn't eaten for me.. My boyfriend bought her for me as a birthday present on October 4th. She was around 2 months old then. She shows NO interested in food what so ever. Brained, hot, teased, leaving in cage, fresh killed, live.. Just no interest. Showed slightly more interest then very warm, brained mice, but that was it. How long does it take for baby condas to have their first shed? I know in the case of blood pythons, it can take up to 3 months for them to have their first sheds.. Do condas take a while as well before becoming interested in food? Maybe try some large feeder fish? She's kept in an aquatic set up, with rocks and flat driftwood basking sight..
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>>DarkWave Exotics
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>>Currently keeping:
>>1.2 southern scrub pythons
>>1.0 reticulated python
>>1.0 albino burmese python
>>1.1 jungle carpet pythons
>>1.0 irian jaya carpet python
>>0.1 blood python
>>4.0 ball pythons
>>0.1 green anaconda
>>1.0 amazon tree boa
>>1.2 colombian redtail boas
>>1.1 argentine boas
>>1.0 sonoran boa
>>1.0 cancun boa
>>0.1 bullsnake
>>1.2 albino and het albino chinese beauty snakes
>>1.2 taiwan beauties
>>2.2 cornsnakes
>>3 sandfire bearded dragons
>>0.1 nile monitor
>>0.0.1 savannah monitor
>>2.5 leopard geckos
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DarkWave Exotics

Currently keeping:
1.2 southern scrub pythons
1.0 reticulated python
1.0 albino burmese python
1.1 jungle carpet pythons
1.0 irian jaya carpet python
0.1 blood python
4.0 ball pythons
0.1 green anaconda
1.0 amazon tree boa
1.2 colombian redtail boas
1.1 argentine boas
1.0 sonoran boa
1.0 cancun boa
0.1 bullsnake
1.2 albino and het albino chinese beauty snakes
1.2 taiwan beauties
2.2 cornsnakes
3 sandfire bearded dragons
0.1 nile monitor
0.0.1 savannah monitor
2.5 leopard geckos

I'm no expert but sounds like you just need to wait a little more, particularly if a shed is due. You might want to start keeping her in a more dry environment; it will be pretty hard to keep it up as she grows big. Might as well get her used to
a drier (no big water pools) environment while she is young. Plus, will help avoid skin problems. Got a pic? Regards.

` Baby Anacondas can take so long to shed, then eat, that it can drive you nuts worrying about it. Some do shed, then eat, soon after birth. Others will go for months, then shed, get really hungry, and grow like mushrooms! Just don't keep them too warm, 75 to 82 degrees is plenty. In my experience, Anacondas do best on newspaper, with a 78 to 84 degree soaking container that you can take out and sterilize, often. Belly heat is really the best for them.
` Most feeder fish have been raised on antibiotics and chemicals to keep them alive, really bad for them, and critters with slow metabolisms that eat them. Besides that, if you get your Anaconda hooked on some unusual food, you'll be sorry. Wait until she is ready, then give her rat pups.
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I have a female greenn anaconda and when i first got her she was supposed to be feeding on mice but when i tried to feed her she wouldnt touch anything. After about 2 months i got tired of her not eatingand noticed in an issue of reptiles magazine where somebody was having problems with thier anaconda eating and they suggested trying chicks. I went out and bought a couple chicks put 1 in the cage and no sooner did i put the chick in the cage it was struck and being wrapped up by my anaconda. I dont know if this might work for you but i thought id mention it.

There has been some good advice given here. Additionally, keep the setup simple until it starts feeding (newspaper substrate, hidebox, water bowl). If it refuses rodents for several months, try newborn chicks, as was mentioned above, as I have had really good luck with them. However, switch over by scenting as soon as possible. Good luck and let us know what happens.

Kelly