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We got her last spring and she's been feeding fine since then. This was true until about 6 weeks ago. She started a shed so she obviously didn't eat during her shed. A week later she finished her shed and still didn't eat. She went 5 weeks without food and has started shedding again.

I've heard of Dums going off feed for extended periods but why would she be shedding again if she hasn't fed since her shed?

I'm hoping she starts to eat again after this one. Any ideas from anyone?

My girl recently went on a 6 month stint without eating, yet continued to shed regularly. She'd been on f/t rats for years, and one day just stopped eating. About a month a go, I tried feeding hr a f/t 0.5lb bunny, and she's been eating one every 10 days ever since. Sometimes they jut get picky! Can't explain the shedding, other than regular growth continuing, but she was (and is) certainly in good health.

Good luck, hope this helped

Don't sweat it. Alot of folks I know are having feeding issues with their snakes right now. Because of the constant fluctuations in barometric pressure that comes with winter weather patterns (in Oklahoma, it is spring/summer the first half of the week and frigidly cold the second half). Even though we try our best to control temps and humidity within a "captive environment", what we can't change is barometric pressure of the surrounding environment. Reptiles feel it and adjust to it.

As far as shedding, just because a snake isn't eating, doesn't mean it isn't growing. I have a '05 female Dum that went off feed for a full year and still managed to put on 10 inches in length. My 9ft female Dum hadn't eaten in the last 2 months and she shed 4 times, twice this last week and then she ate for me yesterday.

Just be patient, the snake should be fine.
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2.5 dumerils boas, 1.1 albino burmese python, 0.2 bearded dragons, 1.0 german giant bearded dragon & 0.0.1 sulcata tortoise