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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2009, 07:19:00 PM »
Its not the most appetizing obviously but when I first started with BP's I had a lil girl no one told me hadn't ever had a meal.  Ever.  So I tried pretty much anything that would cavort in front of her and be small.  I listened to every bit of advice that ANYONE would give me.   I tried it.  I almost tried standing on my head in the corner spitting out pinkies but figured...that might be going a bit too far.  I don't like psych units too much....at least not my idea of a vacation!  Anyways...  I finally found a site that talked about getting hatchlings to feed.  In detail.  And this one trick seemed to make alot of sense to me.  I've used it now on 5 different snakes.  That may not be alot, but it seems like it might be worth a try.  Of course we do know Boots is no Ball Python....though he was hanging with one, maybe she taught him some bad habits?

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Lol, well yeah I'm going to try the chick down probably before I resort to cutting one open.  I don't really mind blood/guts, but I'll try the chick down first lol.  I'm also going to wait a full two weeks again from the last time that I fed him.  He's not losing weight and he's an adult, so I don't see where that would be a problem. 

Lol, he surely didn't get any bad habits from her cause she's never had a problem with eating.  Still chowing down nicely on every meal that I've been informed.
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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2009, 03:47:50 PM »
no doubt tara just let me know i you can't get your hands on any I'll ship ya some good luck tell boots i said hi lol later

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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2009, 07:35:20 PM »
Sorry to hear this. Is he eating now???  :snake1:
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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2009, 08:31:08 PM »
no doubt tara just let me know i you can't get your hands on any I'll ship ya some good luck tell boots i said hi lol later
Lol, well been crazy busy with the new job and I haven't got around to call the feed store which is closed tomorrow but I'm thinking I'm gonna wait til next weekend anyways so that'll give him two weeks before trying again.  I will keep you guys posted though, thanks :)

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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2009, 08:31:51 PM »
Sorry to hear this. Is he eating now???  :snake1:
Naw I tried last weekend so I'm going to wait til next weekend to try again since I tried two weeks in a row, figured he can wait another week and hopefully he'll be hungry by then :)
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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2009, 02:25:28 AM »
Hopefully he starts eating again! It sucks when they go off feed! :(
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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2009, 07:21:36 AM »
Hopefully he starts eating again! It sucks when they go off feed! :(

Yup it does ! But hun, we all believe in him ! He's a good boy  :-*  lol
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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2009, 12:18:46 PM »
its difficult when anskae goes off food to not start worrying but honestly  i have had a snake go 10 months without eating  then just up an start back like it was nothing.
 Sometimes they take aphase in their life when they decide ok i'm good for now an they wont eat or they are tryin to tell you its time for a meal change- ie, larger prey, diffrent prey etc.keep an eye on his body condition, long as hes not  doing what i call pyromiding (where when you look down form teh top they look /\ instead of round) or when youy run your hand down the spine you feel teh indiviudal ridges i wouldn;t honestly worry to awful much.
Also i wouldn;t try alota things back to back, if you offer a rat an he doesn't take it then wait a week or two then try again with something else maybe a diffrent size or species.

btw fo rteh aslepn thing i dun realy recomend keeping rtb on aspen due to their humdiity requirements if you were gona switch substrate i'd  call for cypress mulch thats only if you were gona change it though ^^. paper towls an newspaper arejust fine though ;)


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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2009, 01:36:36 PM »
Hopefully he starts eating again! It sucks when they go off feed! :(

Yup it does ! But hun, we all believe in him ! He's a good boy  :-*  lol

He better be or else! lmao. I sure hope that he starts eating again.  :goodluck:
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Re: Boots not eating..
« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2009, 05:49:39 PM »
if u can't get him to eating, try a guniea pig, that is the boa contrictor's native food source in the wild
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