Feeding my Stimson Pythons

[KingCobra]

Hi Guys,
Probably been asked this Question many times.
I recently purchased a Stimy Python 5 months old female, had her for a week and today I tried feeding her Fuzzy mice in her enclosure, I put in a ceramic feeding bowl and placed it in.. she has gone there a couple of times but not eaten the fuzzy but left it, how long can you leave the fuzzy mice in there before you remove it, and when do I try and feed her again.. any tricks or tips

 

[Wayne]

tip one dont put fuzzays in a feeding bole use feeding tweezers grip the neck of the food slightly and give it a wiggle to make it look like its alive the python will show some intrst if you move it beckwords abit slowly the python will see it and woyld shoerly pounce it but if not a simple light sqwees of the food nose just enugff to have the goo drip from the nose would get the pythons atension do to the seant yes pythons do have a tast of sent via the toung whan the stick thare toung out and gtive it a flick it thare way of tasting the air picking up the sent

 

[Vixen.]

Also it's winter, might not eat until late august.

 

[KingCobra]

tip one dont put fuzzays in a feeding bole use feeding tweezers grip the neck of the food slightly and give it a wiggle to make it look like its alive the python will show some intrst if you move it beckwords abit slowly the python will see it and woyld shoerly pounce it but if not a simple light sqwees of the food nose just enugff to have the goo drip from the nose would get the pythons atension do to the seant yes pythons do have a tast of sent via the toung whan the stick thare toung out and gtive it a flick it thare way of tasting the air picking up the se

Hi Guys,
Probably been asked this Question many times.
I recently purchased a Stimy Python 5 months old female, had her for a week and today I tried feeding her Fuzzy mice in her enclosure, I put in a ceramic feeding bowl and placed it in.. she has gone there a couple of times but not eaten the fuzzy but left it, how long can you leave the fuzzy mice in there before you remove it, and when do I try and feed her again.. any tricks or tips

Tried that, I did exactly that and wiggled it in front but did not show any interest, I put in a bowl cause I have red sand down, this is 3 weeks now no food. I might try to take it out into a container and try feed it in there..

how long can she go without feeding..? She only 5 months old and very friendly..

 

[Mack86]

From what I can gather a couple of months without food is nothing, even to a snake of the same age. I have a 5 month old Stimson's as well and he went 19 days without food. I was told by a vet and a few people on here not to stress and he will eat when hungry. Vixen is right with the cooler weather as well. Takes a bit for them to settle into their new environment too. I understand the concern, I have no shame in saying I'm a bit of a worry wart..but only because I want the best for the animal.

 

[Vixen.]

They won't feed during winter, some occasional piggy ones will, but majority won't. IF there is a UNUSUALLY warm day or two, you can offer food and they might take it, but not likely especially how cold this winter is. Snakes brumate a state or condition of sluggishness, inactivity, or torpor exhibited by reptiles (such as snakes or lizards) during winter or extended periods of low temperature This subterranean torpor is not a true hibernation … but a cold-blooded version of slowing down called brumation. Thus you don't see snakes out and about in winter unless on those rare few warm days they're suddenly out and about as they're opportunistic hunters and take advantage of that to warm up and hunt, but they don't need to.
Yes in captivity we keep them warm and give them a good environment, but they're hard wired to the seasons, you'd have to have a completely sealed house with no airflow and perfect climate control through the whole thing to convince a snake that it's got the season wrong. Regardless it's good for them and natural to go through the seasonal cycles.
They won't lose enough condition for it to be a concern and in August/September they'll start munching away. It's hard to not worry about them, I get it, but you have to re-evaluate your ideas of how animals function when it comes to reptiles, they're efficient little machines and know how what they need.