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I have a two year old Leucistic Texas Rat Snake that's always been a great eater. However, it's been about a month now that she's had anything to eat. I'm wondering maybe it's because of the seasonal change? Just curious to see if others have had the same problem and if the snake is in any kind of danger. She looks good, so i'm assuming she's ok for now. But i would like some advice as far as getting her back to eating on a 10 days basis.

Your snake is fine. You may find that she will accept smaller meals less often during the winter months, or she may barely eat at all. Sometimes when they go for well over a month without eating, a cooldown of just a few weeks can cycle them back up to eating again. Very common with the North American Ratsnakes, especially as they get bigger. Duffy

>>I have a two year old Leucistic Texas Rat Snake that's always been a great eater. However, it's been about a month now that she's had anything to eat. I'm wondering maybe it's because of the seasonal change? Just curious to see if others have had the same problem and if the snake is in any kind of danger. She looks good, so i'm assuming she's ok for now. But i would like some advice as far as getting her back to eating on a 10 days basis.

I've got a 20 inch long Leucistic that's doing the same. I'm just offering him much smaller meals and ocassionally, he'll eat one or two pinkies. I wish that he'd eat more because the whole reason for NOT brumating him was so that he'd get in some good growth, but since he's like this, there's no growth, but no weight loss either.

I'm not too worried because he's maintaining, but I do wish that he'd get back on schedule! LOL.
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