Two Florida kings housed separately, identical conditions.
Ambient air temperature is 68-74, hot spot-ventral heating is 80.
Both are three years old but female is not fat enough to accept female. Trying to fatten them up but they are eating inconsistently at best. Being offered small frozen-thawed rats, both snakes about 4.5-5 ft long.
At nights they are really active.
What to do to get them eating and fat for breeding?
Should ambient temps be increased?
Are they driven by phermones and off cycle now?
Thank You!
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Not Eating and Nocturnally Active?
bernstein
May 13, 2004 05:48 PM
Replies (2)
Brandon Osborne
May 14, 2004 09:57 AM
Raise your temps to about 80-82. Lower temps like that may make them want to brumate. Remember, in FL. winter temps sometimes only drop to the 60's. Give them a hot spot of about 88 for a week and see what happens.
Brandon Osborne
Tom Anderson
May 14, 2004 12:22 PM
Try mice. Some of my kings have a preference and don't eat rat pups as readily as mice. Also, some snakes prefer smaller sized prey items, for example, three hoppers instead of one rat pup.
