Hi everyone.
So we've had our stimmie 2-3 weeks now, about 4 months old I believe. Lives in a plastic tub with paper towel, temps are ok hot spot range of 29-36 on the surface over heat mat which covers less than half of bottom. Snakey rejected first feed, but took second offering a week later of a fuzzy mouse. Prior to that, was feeding on pinky mice with the keepers, but took the fuzzy well at our place, consumed it eagerly (took about 20 minutes to disappear it) and had a nice large bump after eating it. Since then though has been staying in its hide.
Saw the snake come out 3 days after feed and slither around the enclosure, and looked good to me, at that stage couldn't see an obviously large bump any more.
But feed was 6 days ago and still no poo. Should I be worried? Doesn't seem like it's ready for a feed again yet, would like to see her out again and wondering around to signal that, but does this seem reasonable? Do we wait for a poo before we feed again or should we try and feed again since it's been about a week?
Thanks for advice.
So we've had our stimmie 2-3 weeks now, about 4 months old I believe. Lives in a plastic tub with paper towel, temps are ok hot spot range of 29-36 on the surface over heat mat which covers less than half of bottom. Snakey rejected first feed, but took second offering a week later of a fuzzy mouse. Prior to that, was feeding on pinky mice with the keepers, but took the fuzzy well at our place, consumed it eagerly (took about 20 minutes to disappear it) and had a nice large bump after eating it. Since then though has been staying in its hide.
Saw the snake come out 3 days after feed and slither around the enclosure, and looked good to me, at that stage couldn't see an obviously large bump any more.
But feed was 6 days ago and still no poo. Should I be worried? Doesn't seem like it's ready for a feed again yet, would like to see her out again and wondering around to signal that, but does this seem reasonable? Do we wait for a poo before we feed again or should we try and feed again since it's been about a week?
Thanks for advice.