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My new Brb baby, ate the first week i had him. He went into shed and shed was horrid, and changed substrate and the following week he shed again. Its been another week and he still wont take f/t fuzzies? Any ideas? It has been three whole weeks without eating for him but he is keeping weight.

spmills,
...Your problem seems obvious to me. You do not mention what kind of substrate or what the cage is. Most importantly you do not mention what the temperature and humidity is in the cage. If you have the temperature too high or the humidity too low BRBs will have bad sheds and go off feed. Little BRBs are eating machines. If one does not feed it is because of something the keeper is doing wrong. Fuzzy mice are much less interesting to little BRBs than hopper and small adult mice. Frozen thawed mice are also much less interesting to little BRBs than live mice. Make sure the snake has access to a low temperature in the low 70s and a high temperature in the mid to high 70s in it's cage and that the humidity is near 100% and offer it a live hopper or small adult mouse.
Jeff

>>My new Brb baby, ate the first week i had him. He went into shed and shed was horrid, and changed substrate and the following week he shed again. Its been another week and he still wont take f/t fuzzies? Any ideas? It has been three whole weeks without eating for him but he is keeping weight.

Substrate is Moss. about 4 inches thick very moist, that helped with the last shed complete shed.

Temps are lows 70's at night and 82 max in day. with hot and cold spots. I temped the moss on the cold side during the night at 68.

I use uth and heat nocturnal bulb.

Humidity ranges from 75% to 100%.

sp,
...That all sounds pretty good. I think it is time to try feeding something different to the snake. It may help if you try feeding at night also.
Good luck,
Jeff

>>Substrate is Moss. about 4 inches thick very moist, that helped with the last shed complete shed.
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>>Temps are lows 70's at night and 82 max in day. with hot and cold spots. I temped the moss on the cold side during the night at 68.
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>>I use uth and heat nocturnal bulb.
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>>Humidity ranges from 75% to 100%.

I guess he was holding out on a Thanksgiven meal too. I went to remoisten the cage today and when i picked him up he nailed my thumb and wrapped. So i unwrapped him remove his head from my thumb, and dethawed a fuzzy mouse and sure enough he eat. Thanks guys and gals for your help.

I would reccommend you post all the specifics of your husbandry so someone can "troubleshoot" it for you. Something must be off. What are keeping it in? What type of substrate are you using now? How many hides do you have, and where are they located? How are you heating the enclosure? Where is the enclosure? What are the temps in it? How much humidity is there on average? How do you acheive the humidity? What is your snake doing? Is it hiding all the time? Is it moving around during the day (your earlier post said it was)? Where does it spend the majority of it's time? Do you handle it often? How often and how long? What have you tried to feed it and when? How are you measuring the temp/humidity? do you have daytime lighting on it? Have you changed it's habitat during the time you have had it? Can you describe a "horrid shed"? What does that mean? And are you sure it is already in shed again? Or could it be it didn't completely shed the first time? Just some things we need to know to better answer your question. It may seem to be too much, but I bet you'll be better advised with the added details.

Linda

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