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I just got a blood python from NERD a week ago. I have her in a 20 gallon long tank. Is this to big. I have been reading that it may be. I then tried to put it in a small rubbermaid and can't get the temps right. So I am going to leave her in the cage?

My question is after having her for a couple days I thought I would try to feed her. She bit it and then let it go and left it. I then tried a week later and she showed no intrest. All while she was in the tank. I then moved her to a rubbermaid and now she is getting defensive. I never got bit while she was in the tank but once I put her in the rubbermaid I got nailed. I tried to feed her again today and she bit it again and did not eat it. I am getting worried that she will not eat. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Jeff
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0.1 Rott
1.0 Super Tiger
0.1 Green Burm
0.1 Ball Python
0.1 Red Tail
0.1 Blood Python

My guess is she's stressed. Do your best to get the temps right in the Rubbermaid container. When I got my first blood, I put her in a 20-long aquarium and she was really [bleep]y for about a month and didn't really calm down until I had had her for a year or so It's best if you don't move her around too much...leave her in one home and don't mess with her a lot.

Also, don't worry too much about her not eating. One of the Borneos I got in October wouldn't eat for me for about nine weeks. Don't constantly try to feed her: she might lose all interest if the food is around all the time. Feed her in the evenings or at night--I got mine to eat by leaving a live two-week-old rat with the snake overnight. I had to try several times, but eventually she started eating and now she's a little piggy

good luck man
.Owen.:.
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0.1 red blood python (Daphne)
1.1 Borneo pythons (Augmented and Diminished)
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Hey,
The best advice that I can give you, is, to get all of the parameters in the cage as close to perfect as possible. Once that is done if he/she, is not eating you at least know that there is nothing wrong with the cage setting. Snakes take sometime to acclimate when they are fussed with too much, and it sounds like you have fussed with this one a little bit. Wait a little while before attempting to feed again. Give him/her two weeks to adjust to its new cage and surrounding and see what happens then. It's good that you moved it too a smaller cage.

-Angel
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"Until we lose our self, there is no way of finding our self."
-Henry Miller.

If you can't get the temps right in the rubbermaid alone, but the temps in the 20 gal are OK, maybe you could put the rubbermaid in the 20 gallon. That's what I do with my babies and it seems to work pretty well.
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Kitt

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One thing I learned about bloods after getting my little guy was they tend not to feed until after the first shed or longer. Mine was extremely difficult and I won't go into the two month story of that but after she shed pig city. B epatient and keep things calm and collected. Get the environment right and try afetr a couple weeks then every four or five days watch for the signs of shed and make sure it has adequate hides available.
Contact NERD and see what info they can give in this particular animal.

As a finasl note you should always give an animal at least a week to acclimate to the new setting before the intro of food.
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Chris, my wife Mary
a dog, two cats, two birds, four snakes
oh and three kids