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That One Weird Girl
My 1 year old okeetee has been roaming around his tank for 2 weeks straight and refused food today. I'm pretty sure this is part of breeding season, but he's now wrapped on his water bowl and pushes my fingers away when I'm checking his body temperature. And the water bowl is under his heat lamp!

What's going on here???
 
There may not be an adequate heat source. This would explain his searching around. Snakes often don't eat without good stomach heat, as they cannot digest. I would move away the water. The evaporation may cause mold. Also, snakes are one of the few animals who move away from something when they are burnt. They could be sitting on an oven and not move even up until they get a third degree burn. It's important to get a UTH with a thermostat.
 
Do you have a hide on the warm side? If so, I would say probably just the breeding season. I don't think evaporation will necessarily cause mold, just a high humidity. Just keep offering him food every week or so, and he will eat when he is done looking for females.
 
Dakota314 said:
Do you have a hide on the warm side? If so, I would say probably just the breeding season. I don't think evaporation will necessarily cause mold, just a high humidity. Just keep offering him food every week or so, and he will eat when he is done looking for females.
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I have a hide on both sides, and just switched the cooler and hot sides so the water bowl isn't cooking water. But thank you! I'm pretty sure the evaporation is what he is actually looking for. He's usually neutral before breeding season came around.
 
Lyion said:
There may not be an adequate heat source. This would explain his searching around. Snakes often don't eat without good stomach heat, as they cannot digest. I would move away the water. The evaporation may cause mold. Also, snakes are one of the few animals who move away from something when they are burnt. They could be sitting on an oven and not move even up until they get a third degree burn. It's important to get a UTH with a thermostat.
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His thermostat reads 82, and it's stuck at the bottom of his tank. It gets pretty warm in my room so that's not the problem. I switched the hot and cool sides and still he roams around, so I don't think that moving his water will change anything. I think he needs humidity, to be honest. And it's due to breeding season that he's going nuts.
 
Thermostat or thermometer? I think you mean thermometer, and honestly the stick on ones don't work well. You need a probe style one you can put on the bottom of the tank, and also a thermostat hooked up to your heat source to regulate the temps.
 
Do you have a humidity gauge in his tank? My tanks are all around 60%, and that's with the water bowl on the cool side and a screen top.
It's funny that you post this though, because my girl who is on a hunger strike right now was sitting perched on her water bowl yesterday when I woke up, with just her tail dipping in the water. Strange snakes. :rolleyes:
 
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