>>i recently got a spotted python that's only a few weeks old and haven't been able to get it to eat yet. i realize sometimes it takes a while, but was wondering how long it can go without eating until it becomes a real issue. Also, can anyone offer advice on getting it to feed? I've already tried tail teasing (so far it has no aggressive bone in it's body so it won't even strike)and putting it in a deli cup with a pinkie in the dark. neither of which has worked yet. the next "trick up my sleeve" is a split brain, but i'm sure with the multitude of people out there, someone's got some more ideas. Thanks.



I don't know if it carries to Spotteds but my Childrens start well if I house them in loose cover for the first month. Basically I take them out of the incubator and put them into a plastic shoebox with a water dish and the rest full of a layer of an inch or so damp long fiber spaghnum moss. That's it. A few days after their first shed I drop in a live newborn mouse at dusk and leave them overnight. Probably half of them start right away. Otherwise I give them 4 or 5 days and offer again.

Before I set the neonates in cover like this they would go forever before starting and I really got worried. I haven't had a baby go more than a couple weeks since housing them like this.



I know that you can try them in a deli cup with a beheaded live pinkie also. This tends to work a charm with Corns or Kings that I have worked with that were too spastic to start normally.
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