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Here's a pic of them together. She's definitely not as ugly as I thought but still nothing like what I hoped. Damn thing still won't eat either. She's only about a 6 month captive so I'm probably gonna have to wait til Spring till she's ready again. Anyway, not too bad I guess.

Ryan:

Nice pair of copperheads I would like to suggest if they felt more "confortable" on a better substrate you might have some sucess in getting them to eat. I use ZooMed Repti-Bark Reptile Bedding. The animals especially WC snakes are stressed. If you can get them to un-stress they may be more willing to eat. The bark holds mosture better and is easy to clean. Besides it would make them look cooler and a better background for photos.

Just my 0.02 cents

Good Luck,

Al

Enclosure is a Precision Cage I use for my Atheris nitschei

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Hey Al. Thanks for the advice. The female is the one that's not eating. I just got her a little over a month ago. I'm sure she'll come around eventually. It's just because of winter. I have had the male for 3 years. He's completely healthy and eats perfectly. Always has. But he does go off feed or slows down over the winter too. He's pushing 4 feet and has great body weight. I'm hoping to get her weight up so he has something to breed this year. Guess I'll just relax until it warms up a little but she looks so underweight compared to him, it would just be nice to get something in her belly. Something I always notice but forget to mention on here, my male seems so "content" when he has a cagemate. I've gone through about 20 females over the last few years that never measure up to him. And after I take them out, he actually looks for them. Yesterday when I took the female out to shed, he cruised the cage looking for her until I put her back in. And when I did, they both went right for each other and haven't separated since. It's really interesting how communal copperheads are.