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Old 30-Oct-06, 10:05 PM
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North Queensland Sleepy Snakes

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated;

Our 2 adult Costal Carpet Pythons, had a feed two and a half weeks ago and promptly curled up, went to sleep and have been very inactive since.

They usually curl up and go to sleep for a couple of days after they eat, but with the weather being very warm and settled, I would have thought they would have been far more active...not hibernating!

The rats I feed them were a little bit smaller than usual (The Aussie Pet Barn only had large rats, I usually get them extra large) but the rats looked good and were defrosted for about 4 hours out of the sun and warmed up to around 32c (internal temp(I double bag the rats and float them in hot tap water to bring their temp up to close to fresh killed) before I gave them to our snakes.

These are usually very social snakes and come out of there cage every night and cruse around the house for a few hours before we go to bed - but now after there last feed, that have not even really uncoiled them selves.

They live in a split level cage, with the boy on top and the girl below, the temp is good at around 30c at the warm end and 26c at the cool end. (They are both at there respective warm ends)

Is this behaviour normal as it is both our snakes behaving the same way?

They are defiantly still alive, they are just sleeping and particularly unsociable, and I am a little concerned – can somebody please shed some light on this for us?

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