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#2076835
GunshotxRomance3
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Quick feeding question 
I never had this problem with my BP, but my new boa won’t eat his food. The people that I bought him from said that he’s eating small mice and I THINK they might have said that he was eating live mice but I’m not 100% sure. I don’t like feeding live mice and it’s just much easier to feed f/t, so I tried lastnight and then today to get him to eat and he isn’t interested at all. He doesn’t even look at it or anything he’s more interesting in trying to get out of the box I put him in for feeding and exploring around the room..I think I read somewhere to keep trying to feed him after a couple days and keep doing that until he does eat it because eventually he’ll be hungry enough to have to eat it? Like I said I haven’t had this problem before so I’m not really sure what to do since he’s a baby and all..
Thanks!
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09/26/09 01:55pm
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#2077002
Tav13
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2076835
Quick feeding question
Wait a week or so, try f/t and it might be a good idea to try in the evening and do not disturb him. Just let him settle in and give him some time and he should come around. Good luck.....Also I would feed him in his regular enclosure. No reason to feed him outside of it.
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09/26/09 10:07pm
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#2077470
Fairy Frog Mother
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Message To: Tav13 In reference to Message Id: 2077002
Quick feeding question
Depends on the substrate, but heck you can feed a F/T on a piece of cardboard, inside its regular enclosure ( or in a paper lunchsack set on its side near the most used hide in its cage) and just leave it.
And yes, wait a week without handling it to let it get used to new surroundings and smells. One week or two wont hurt it as long as its had a meal before. It has to get used to its new environment. Trying every few days will just stress it out. Go in to change water daily and ignore the snake cept for watching it.
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09/27/09 11:33pm
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#2078052
GunshotxRomance3
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Message To: Fairy Frog Mother In reference to Message Id: 2077470
Quick feeding question
Okay thank you.
I’ve had him for a little over a week now. I have a climbing tree type thing in his cage and all he ever does is wrap himself around it and sit there all day/night, and sometimes nosey around the rest of his cage. But I’ll try feeding him a f/t on thursday night and leave it in his cage over night, I didn’t know you could leave the food in there over night I always thought it would go bad if they didn’t eat it and that they wouldn’t eat it if it wasn’t warm.lol
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09/29/09 12:04am
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#2078969
GunshotxRomance3
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2078052
Quick feeding question
so i’m attempting to feed him tonight, i put the mouse in his cage and i have all the lights turned off and even covered it with a towel because i was told that sometimes they like eating in the dark. if he still doesn’t eat what should i do? should i go out next week and buy him a live mouse?
thanks.
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09/30/09 11:35pm
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#2079001
Fairy Frog Mother
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2078969
Quick feeding question
Yeah, that would be the best. No stress. Just change water and let it acclimate.
I got three of my baby corn hatchlings to eat so far, one just hasn’t eaten yet and I’m still crossing my fingers it will eat.
All we can do is hope
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10/01/09 12:22am
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#2079056
GunshotxRomance3
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Message To: Fairy Frog Mother In reference to Message Id: 2079001
Quick feeding question
so the weirdest thing happened...when i checked to see if he ate the mouse this morning he hadn’t...so I figured I would try one last time dangling it by his face..i dangled it a few times and he struck at it and is in the process of eating it right now! i don’t know if i was just lucky or if that’s how he’s going to eat from now on? i’m just so happy and relieved that he finally ate, hopefully he won’t continue to be this difficult. I e-mailed the breeders that bought him from and asked them if they were feeding him live mice and if they had any suggestions on switching him over (i did that lastnight just incase he didn’t eat, i figured better safe than sorry).
thank you so much for replying to all my forums and your help Fairy Frog other, I greatly appreciate it.
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10/01/09 08:05am
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#2079329
ReptileJay
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2079056
Quick feeding question
Get yourself some feeding tongs. boa’s will eat f/t without much problem, but you usually have to move it. my milk snakes will eat it just laying there, but none of my other snakes. jiggle the mouse, and he’ll take it almost everytime... almost, cuz right now my young boa is refusing to eat. i think its cuz i tried to feed him outside the cage... he has eco earth substrate, and i don’t want him swallowing it. good luck, glad your snake ate though. wish me luck, i have three non-feeders right now.
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10/02/09 01:23am
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#2079421
GunshotxRomance3
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Message To: ReptileJay In reference to Message Id: 2079329
Quick feeding question
i feed my BP out of his tank that way he doesn’t "mistake fingers for food", but I guess I can’t do it with this guy. and I have a pair of tongs but my roommate used them to feed her snake and we aren’t sure where they are at the moment.lol
but yeah, i will definitly say goodluck to you! i hope they start eating for you soon! i just laid a piece of newspaper or computer down over top of the substrate in my boas cage that way he won’t accidentally ingest it.
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10/02/09 12:37pm
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#2079460
ReptileJay
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2079421
Quick feeding question
yeah. i did that last night with my boa. since he was so insistent on eating in his cage. i slid him onto a piece of cardboard, then jiggled the mouse... he had struck and wrapped up before i even realized it... guess the little guy was hungry. one down, two to go.. i’m going to try the tuna fish method with my honduran milk snake later today.. I’m not trying with my GTP again until next week, so hopefully i can get this milk to eat and i’ll be back to one problem feeder.
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10/02/09 02:47pm
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#2079462
ReptileJay
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2079421
Quick feeding question
also, my son feeds his two BPs out of the tank as well. they’re cool like that. i don’t know why boas refuse to do it, but he doesn’t try to bite me when i reach for him, so that’s cool. i know a couple of BPs that will strike at your hand because of being fed in their cage for so long. i guess we’ll both just have to accept the fact that our boas will be eating in their enclosures.
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10/02/09 02:49pm
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#2082200
GunshotxRomance3
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Message To: ReptileJay In reference to Message Id: 2079462
Quick feeding question
So two updates,
on either sunday or monday of this week when I was holding him i had him in one hand and i was cracking my thumb on my other hand and when I was doing that he just went and randomly striked at my hand. He hit my thumb and i felt like a little prick/scratch type of feeling but he didn’t bite down or anything and there wasn’t a mark or anything, so he lost a little bit of trust there, now when I hold him I just make sure I watch his head and make it so he can’t move his head all around all the time to where he can bite me.
and second, he ate again today with no problems! and he’s even going into shed, i’m so happy about that. i was even able to put him into a seperate feeding box and i dangled the mouse in front of his face a few times and then he struck at it and ate it. i’m hoping this means we won’t have anymore feeding problems.
:D
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10/09/09 01:31pm
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#2083324
ReptileJay
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2082200
Quick feeding question
awesome... about the eating. Not about the biting. It may have been that the cracking just scared him, or it was a sudden movement in his peripheral vision. My boa just shed today. let me know how long it takes yours to shed, because he started on Friday and finished Monday afternoon. This was his first shed with me and I thought it was pretty fast. I have two milks and they take at least five days, usually a week and a half. (of course they’re in less humidity). I gave up on feeding him outside his cage, plus when he’s six feet, where am I going to get a container for him? Anyway, congrats on getting yours to eat outside of the enclosure, I hope you don’t have any more problems either.
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10/13/09 12:34am
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#2085104
GunshotxRomance3
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Message To: ReptileJay In reference to Message Id: 2083324
Quick feeding question - shedding
Mine started shedding around friday of last week and when I took him out of his tank on tuesday he was done. But, when I looked in his tank for shed skin there wasn’t any? It’s really weird, I’m pretty sure he shed because he turned kind of brownish in color and his eyes got the milky gray color to them but there isn’t any shed skin anywhere in his tank..
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10/17/09 01:44pm
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#2085338
ReptileJay
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Message To: GunshotxRomance3 In reference to Message Id: 2085104
Quick feeding question - shedding
Your snake hasn’t shed yet. There is a phase of shedding referred to as bluing. When the snake goes dull and the eyes cloud over is the first step. Next the skin to be shed actually releases from the snake and sometimes its hard to tell that it is still on the snake. The skin to be shed is still there, but its not attached to the snake so it appears clear and it makes it look like the snake has shed. The shed skin is there, its just a matter of the snake actually working this old skin off its body. Give it another day and you’ll find the skin.
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10/18/09 01:20am
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