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07-Mar-07, 03:47 PM
| | | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Bush Age/Gender: 37  | | |  Worried
I Have Had My Spotted Python Hatchling Now For 3 Weeks And Think She Was 4-3 Weeks Old When I Got Her. She Wont Eat For Me Has Any One Got Any Sugestions How I Get Her To Eat I Have Offerd Her Pinkie Mice And Wont Take Them. She Did Eat A Baby Skink 1 Week After We Got Her And Nothing Else. Can Some One Help Me.
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07-Mar-07, 03:51 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Townsville, North QLD Age/Gender: 21 | | | |
i wouldnt b e too worried... my bredli didnt eat for 4mths after i got him and my jungle wouldnt eat for 5..... check out the wiki itll help u out...also if she ate a skink maybe try scenting ur pinkie with a skink (theres a million way su can do this but i always just rub the skink on the mouse for about 30seconds which always works for me)...
cheers
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07-Mar-07, 04:00 PM
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yeah don't worry hatches have been know not to eat for 6 to 8 months due to them still full on their yolk from their egg the reason for this is survival, in the wild the hatchling may not get another feed for a while so the egg yolk keeps them alive until they can catch something
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07-Mar-07, 04:05 PM
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What SoS said try rubbing it on the mouse, don't be too woried, don't handle until later.
She'll be right. Just check everything else, temp, hide size etc
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07-Mar-07, 04:11 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Sydney Age: 28 | | | |
By feeding your snake a skink you have made things difficult for yourself. Your snake now has a strong preference for food which smells like skink, it may take some effort to convince it to eat rodents.
The first thing you should do is make sure your snake feels secure; this means checking your temps and placing it in a click clack with a hide in a quiet room.
Then you should offer the snake a pink mouse once a week or so, try tapping the snakes neck with the pinky...this provokes a strike.
I would try this for several weeks and only as a last resort you could use skink scenting; rubbing skink urine or blood from a skink tail. Skink scenting will work very quickly but it prolongs the preference for skink and is inconvenient. Catching skinks is illegal and annoying...I would try very hard to train your snake to eat rodents.
Have patience and good luck.
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07-Mar-07, 04:20 PM
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my childreni didnt eat for over 2 months when i got her, so dont worry yet
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07-Mar-07, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by fishbot  By feeding your snake a skink you have made things difficult for yourself. Your snake now has a strong preference for food which smells like skink, it may take some effort to convince it to eat rodents.
The first thing you should do is make sure your snake feels secure; this means checking your temps and placing it in a click clack with a hide in a quiet room.
Have patience and good luck. | Fishbot is spot on
And can i ask why you gave it a skink
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07-Mar-07, 04:52 PM
|  | Electrical Snake Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Inner-West Sydney Age/Gender: 21 | | | |
double check with your breeder if he/she was feeding it rats or mice as it took me ages to wean my stimmy off mcie and onto rats. And also see how they got it to feed as in what did they do, did they jiggle the mice froma pair of tongs infront of the snake or just leave it in its container overnight? Eitherway i wouldnt worry too much.
-Paul
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