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I cannot for the life of me yto get my pair of biaks to eat I have tried everything that I know of to get them to eat short of force feeding any help at this point of time will be greatly appreiciated.I have only had them for a couple of weeks so I'm not sure if the moved from ala. freaked them out or what I have them in 3'slant front neos. 70% humidity at about 83-85 degrees.I am stumped in calf. Oh they are housed together

Housing Chondros together is usually not a good thing athough i know people that do it ans have no problems...
but i will not do it unless i have to or i am breeding...
ala.??? is that alaska??? if so i am assuming that they came from Rich Culver... or maybe ala. is alabama... i dunno...

their are several ways to get Chondros to eat... If i was you this is what i would do...
first seperate them to feed them... get a box or something that is big enough to put some kind os perch in, but does not have alot of space... then get a pinkie mouse or rat depending on the size of the snakes... and drop it in the bottom... and just leave them alone for about 30 minutes... but dont put the pinkie in the cage till the snake is perched... and when you drop in the food be sure to bump the cage a bit so you have the snakes attention... this method has worked really well for me..
i have not had a bad Chondro yet and i'm sure when i get one my entire collection will follow suit... lol... but i have a pair of Carpets that take their sweet time eating...

Good luck

Shiloh

>>I cannot for the life of me yto get my pair of biaks to eat I have tried everything that I know of to get them to eat short of force feeding any help at this point of time will be greatly appreiciated.I have only had them for a couple of weeks so I'm not sure if the moved from ala. freaked them out or what I have them in 3'slant front neos. 70% humidity at about 83-85 degrees.I am stumped in calf. Oh they are housed together

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Shiloh Hawkesworth
kansas
(Midwest Serpents)

2 weeks is not cause for alarm, at all. To put things in prospective I got a yearling a little more than 2 weeks ago and havent even tried offering it food. These things need a period of adjustment.

SPLIT THEM UP! I'm sure this is stressing them out.

Split them up, wait a week or 2 then try again.

I completely agree with Julian. SPLIT 'EM UP! If you can afford two biaks, you can afford two cages. If you can't, send one to me, lol.

I have had snakes go off feed for months. dont worry about it. but you probably have a combination of a problem between the shipping and the housing together
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Chondros and colubrids... my 2 favorite types of snakes!

"Life is hard. Life is harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne

I agree with splitting them up. If they still don't eat, try this...

Set up a black light, and feed them late at night, with no light other than the blacklight which won't effect them. Heat up a pre-killed prey item till it's warm to the touch, and hang it in for them. If they don't immediately get interested, bump it into them lightly, and hold it up in front of their face where they can smell it...that normally gets their attention and activates a feeding response.

Chris
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0.0.1 Biak GTP-Angela
1.2.0 Black Rat Snakes-Robert, Cady, Kylie
0.1.0 Red-tail Boas-Xena
1.0.0 Bearded Dragons-Ruff
1.0.0 Ball Pythons-Donnie
0.1.0 Carpet Pythons-Lindsey
0.0.1 Savanah Monitors-Izzy

Don't use flourescent blacklights for any lengthy amount of time as they have been shown to damage the retina. The painted bulbs, like a regular 60 watt incandescant bulb is fine, but don't use a flourescent blacklight strip in any fish enclosure.
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Chondros and colubrids... my 2 favorite types of snakes!

"Life is hard. Life is harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne

I didn't mean to hang a blacklight over the snake for hours..i meant more keep it in the distance to give yourself enough light to make sure you're not offering your hand to the snake lol, and it'll also reduce any confusion/stress on the snake.

chris
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0.0.1 Biak GTP-Angela
1.2.0 Black Rat Snakes-Robert, Cady, Kylie
0.1.0 Red-tail Boas-Xena
1.0.0 Bearded Dragons-Ruff
1.0.0 Ball Pythons-Donnie
0.1.0 Carpet Pythons-Lindsey
0.0.1 Savanah Monitors-Izzy

I hadn't thought about using a party blacklight to feed by. I've been using my redlight, but I think that would be even better. Does it make them look cool??? Are we talking 70's? With a lava lamp??? J/K

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