Adult male, 2 month hunger strike
My adult snow male has not eaten in the past two months. He looks thin to me but not dangerously so... he has been very active lately but has settled down some in the past couple weeks. He's rubbed one of the scales off of the top of his head and his last shed was patchy (he has never shed in one piece since I've had him). I usually place my snakes in a bin with a F/T mouse and leave them in a dark quiet room for an hour. He use to be my most reliable eater but went off food earlier this winter and again this spring. I expect it's a result of breeding season. Every time I place him in his bin with the food he has defecated a small amount of dark brown feces along with plenty of liquid and urates. It usually has a bad smell like you would expect.
I've been trying to not let myself get worried but the fact that he keeps using the bathroom in the bin (never in his viv though) has me worried something could be wrong internally with him. I just got done treating my rosy boa for a RI at the vet so I would like to avoid another vet bill if at all possible.
I can post pictures of the snake if anyone would like to see him. I don't have a weight for him but he's about 3'10" long last time I measured him and he's supposedly 7 years old. I got him as a "rescue" from a girl on craigslist a year ago and he was a little thin when I got him last year too. It took a few weeks before I got him eating when I first got him, that was early last summer.
Thank you!
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