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A friend of mine that lives in Riverside Ca. had a Rosy Boa come in to his patio, he let it go back to the field that it came from, only to have it return, so he gave me the snake I have had the snake for two weeks and I have offerd it a mouse at one week and again at two weeks, the snake shows no intrest in eating a mouse, could this be becouse he is looking to brumate or not liking his new home in a tank, it is a 40gl. tank with a heater(under tank) aspin and a hiding rock and a water bowl. Anything else that I can ad to make him more at home?

Thanks
Cecil
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1.1 Bearded Dragon (Drago,Medusa)
1.1 Desert Iguana(Dima, Dianne)
1.0 Green Iguana (Igor)
0.1.1 Chuckwalla (roxy,Little Chuckie)
1.3.5 Collared Lizard (Fred, Wilma, Betty, Pebbles #1,2,3,4,5, KND)
1.1 Desert Leopard Lizard (Simba, Kimba)
0.1 AZ. MTN. Kingsnake (Nimo)
1.0 Coatal Rosy Boa (?????)
0.1 Hamster (Tofu)
1.1 Kids
0.1 Wife

Your set up sounds fine. The lack of eating sounds like a seasonal issue to me.

Some rosys prefer small prey items / find them much harder to resist. Try offering him a crawler or small hopper as a meal.

If he refuses this, and he looks like he has a healthy body weight etc. you may just want to turn off the heat and put him somewhere cool and let him sleep through the winter.

Some of my rosys have started to slow down and stop eating too.

-Alice

It looks like you are on all these boards, every time I get a new animal and post, you have one or some of your own, you must have quite a collection, I'm jealous

Cecil
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1.1 Bearded Dragon (Drago,Medusa)
1.1 Desert Iguana(Dima, Dianne)
1.0 Green Iguana (Igor)
0.1.1 Chuckwalla (roxy,Little Chuckie)
1.3.5 Collared Lizard (Fred, Wilma, Betty, Pebbles #1,2,3,4,5, KND)
1.1 Desert Leopard Lizard (Simba, Kimba)
0.1 AZ. MTN. Kingsnake (Nimo)
1.0 Coatal Rosy Boa (?????)
0.1 Hamster (Tofu)
1.1 Kids
0.1 Wife