help! I have a adult taiwan beauty snake that hasnt eaten in almost 2 months, ive tried using smaller rats and chicken broth and she seems semi interested but she still wont touch it. is there anything else i can do without force feeding her?
Reptile & Amphibian Forums
Welcome to kingsnake.com's message board system. Here you may share and discuss information with others about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements, permits and licenses, and more. Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the oldest and largest systems on the internet.
my taiwan beauty wont eat
lil_7
Jun 07, 2003 10:55 AM
Replies (4)
jeremy carroll
Jun 07, 2003 03:43 PM
Have you tried:
-snake and thawed mouse in brown paper bag
-tease feeding (pressing prey item gently up against the snakes lips cauing it to possibly opening its mouth therefore allowing you to put item in it's mouth)
-overnight feed
-----
Jeremy Carroll
Center for Reptile and Amphibian Propagation and Conservation
http://www.onet.net/~eagle/Reptile/index.htm
lil_7
Jun 07, 2003 08:27 PM
I havent heard of using a brown bag, but have tried overnight feeding and before when she did eat if i would sort of smack her in the face with the mouse she would eat it but now she just runs away and tries to go in her hide box.
jeremy carroll
Jun 07, 2003 09:05 PM
Maybe it's just not hunngry. As you may know snakes can go for a while without eating and 2 months is really not that long. As long as it is not getting noticebly skinnier and acting normal then I would not worry.
-----
Jeremy Carroll
Center for Reptile and Amphibian Propagation and Conservation
http://www.onet.net/~eagle/Reptile/index.htm
jeremy carroll
Jun 07, 2003 09:07 PM
n/t
-----
Jeremy Carroll
Center for Reptile and Amphibian Propagation and Conservation
http://www.onet.net/~eagle/Reptile/index.htm
