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Thanks everyone for their answers to my previous questions.

She still hasen't eaten and I have left her alone in her new smaller cage for 2 weeks now only disturbing her to change the water and mist her cage. She's due to be offered food this weekend so we will see...

Just a couple days ago though I noticed tiny black things floating in the water and when I looked closer I realized they were mites! Could this be a factor on why my Dum wont eat? And has anyone had any sucsess in treating a mite problem? There is so much info out there on where and what to get I figured I'd ask to see if any one recomends one product over another and see where the best place to find it would be.

Thanks for your help!

ok well i havent been up to par on your story but i would put a few cents on thats why not eating. first if your not already use paper as substrate and use plastic for hides and water dishes wood and stuff like that is prime for mite breeding. give your snake a nice 30-40 min soak or so in luke warm water not hot or cold that nice little medium lol. then wipe her down nice n good but while soaking clean the cage like a SOB as far as product goes i love provent a mite. works wonders but has to be ordered online. no pest strips go both way and have to make sure you use the right amount and that the snake can NOT touch it and do like a 3 day of strip in the take out clean cage water bowl etc replace with new news paper let be for three days without pest strip and go back to square one with it back in etc etc. most pet store carry mite off and thigns like that but personaly i dont like them havent worked for me. i hope some of this info helped and hopefully some1 else will chime in and give there 2 cents worth and fill in what i forgot

Try quail if you are getting really concerned about him not eating. How long has it been since he ate? I have never had a dumerils turn down quail. My orange dumerils pictured below ate only quail for his first year and eventually went to rats.

She hasent eaten for 2 months and the pet store I bought her from also had a hard time feeding her at first. When I brought her home theay said she had eaten for them 3 times. she was on small mice when I bought her but hasent shown any intrest in them with me. I'm having trouble even finding frozen rat pups in my area. She's pushing 30in long and I weighed her 2 weeks ago and she was 6.5oz.

Everynight as soon as the lights go out she makes a b-line for her water dish and will thrash around a little bit before settling down in it and soaking for a good amout of time. Im guessing the mits must be bothering her.

How long should I wait before getting worried about her not eating?