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14-Apr-08, 10:57 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Brisbane, Queensland Age/Gender: 13  | | | Children's python isn't eating! Need help!
I have a Male, 15 month old Childen's python. I had him in the backyard on the grass taking some photos and i was handling him most of the day, normally his fine with me handling before a feed. It was like he was scared of the mouse. His not getting ready to shed, he only just shed last Saturday. I have the tempreture between 27-31 and scence his only young im not going to put him into hybornation, well what i've read you should put snakes in hybornation before the mature. I tried putting the mouse in his enclosure. Should i just wait a couple of days and try again? or is there something else i can do in the mean time.
Hope someone can help, and whoever does, Thank you so much!!
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14-Apr-08, 11:05 AM
|  | Bonus Member Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Ballina, Northern NSW. Age/Gender: 24 | | | | trouser, nothing to worry about champion. You will find now the weather is getting cooler, he will go off his food for a while or slow down alot. All my Antaresia have gone off there tucker.
Absolutely nothing to worry about mate. Keep doing what ya doing.
Bill. |
14-Apr-08, 11:09 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Vic | | | | Yeah i wouldnt stress. You could try feeding him just after dark & see if he's more keen. |
14-Apr-08, 11:12 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Brisbane, Queensland Age/Gender: 13 | | | | Well yeah i tried last night. I'll try in another couple of days, if he doesnt eat then i'll take it that he doesnt want food cause his to cold.
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16-Apr-08, 08:38 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Brisbane, Queensland Age/Gender: 13 | | | I tried feeding him earlier tonight. He looked interested but still would eat, I tried keeping the tempreture up around 27-30 but that didnt help. I know its the colder months, but what i know of, you shouldnt put 15 month old snakes in hibernation, and i've done so, Through the day while im at school its at 21 degrees and when i get home i turn the heater on, it gets up to 27-30 degrees, my thermostat doesnt work, im trying to chase up a new 1 so i can control the heat better. For now could i use a fan to circulate the tempreture and keep it down through out the day, or is their something else i can do?
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16-Apr-08, 08:45 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Queensland Age/Gender: 19  | | | | Drafts are a reason for respiratory infection - so no fans... |
16-Apr-08, 08:46 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Geelong VIC Age/Gender: 21 | | | | Its probably just the weather mate.
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16-Apr-08, 08:58 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | Once you bump the temperature up again, all the time instead of only at night, his appetite should return. It won't hurt him not to eat for a while. I had the same thing happen to one of my spotted pythons when a heat mat stopped working, once I replaced it his appetite returned to normal. One end of my tank is in the low 30's and the other end gets to about 24 degrees.
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16-Apr-08, 09:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | childrens not eating
hey mate,
im going through the same thing, i just put a post up about my mle childrens who is juts over a year old, doesnt seem to be anything to worry about.
Dave |
16-Apr-08, 09:07 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: Sydney Region Age/Gender: 21 | | | | bump up the hot end temp to 33-34 and he should eat |
26-Apr-08, 06:21 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Brisbane, Queensland Age/Gender: 13 | | | Got him eating again!!! 
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26-Apr-08, 06:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | yeh mate id say its the weather.. fortunatly all my snakes are Beasty eaters and wouldnt give up an eating oppertunaity but me dragon has stopped eating because of weather changes.. nothing to worry about mate.. but dont stop trying though..
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27-Apr-08, 07:59 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Gold Coast | | | | Now that he has eaten make sure yout hot end stays hot day and nite, otherwise that food that he has eaten may not get digested correctly... |
27-Apr-08, 08:07 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Brisbane, Queensland Age/Gender: 13 | | | | I'll keep an eye on it.
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07-Jul-08, 07:20 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Brisbane, Queensland Age/Gender: 13 | | | | After 3-4 months, i've have gotten him to eat again, I gave him a adult Mice, took it with no worrys, I put him back in his enclosure (Still constricting, I slowing put him in). He held on for it for a while, then let go, I was really pissed off then, then I opened his enclosure, he rapped himself around a log then started pulling the mouse into a darked spot.
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