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corn not eaten for 10 weeks!

rosshammond999

rosshammond999

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i have had my corn snake for 10 weeks and it has not eaten yet. it has shed twice? but no eating i have tried with hoppers and pinkies, it is 18 months and about 4 foot! should i be worried and try to feed live??
 
I think 10 weeks is a real long time for a snake to be eating. Did you ask the person who you got the snake from what kind of food he has been eating? Maybe he was only used to eating live? I think you should at least try to feed it live...or try holding a frozen/thawed by the tail and wave it around in fron of his face.
 
OK. I have never heard of a cornsnakes thats 18 months old and about 4 feet long if your snake is 4 feet, i'd think it would be on adults or at least sub adults. Have you tried scenting it, braining it, moving it...basically holding the mouse above the snake and tapping its nose and taunting it.
 
i have tried cutting it to make it smell and tapping it on his nose and body. the mice i was using were the ones i was given by the man i got it off which are frozen so i dont know what is wrong, i kept it in the same viv and have not changed any of the setup!! so i dont know what to do except try live!!
 
I have an 18 month old corn who has just ate on Thursday after refusing for 10 weeks. From what i read and was told it is just the time of year...breeding season.Some go off their food others dont.If your corn was a good healthy weight before hand it shouldnt cause much problems.Yes he might lose a bit of weight but nothing life threatening.
 
rosshammond999 said:
i have tried with hoppers and pinkies, it is 18 months and about 4 foot!
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A four foot snake is considerd more of an adult. Pinkies are for newborn snakes and babies. Hoppers for a little bit bigger snakes. A four foot snake should be eating adult mice by now. Maybe you need to give it appropriate sized food.

I believe that a snake can swollow mice that are more than twice the thickness of the fattest part of your snake.
 
Sounds like an adult male off feed for breeding season. Mine went off for 3 months last year and lost about 50 grams in that 3 months. He's been off food for about2 months so far this year but I've been breeding him so I don't know if that will get him on food sooner or later.
 
King21 is absolutely right. A four foot snake is way to big to be eating pinkies or hoppers. It probably doesn't even consider them as food anymore. I'd concur with the suggestion that you try larger mice. Medium to large adults are what he should be eating, but don't jump to that big of a mouse right away. Offer him a weanling or small adult for a few weeks, then a medium adult, then a large one. If you increase the size of food too fast, you risk a regurge.
 
I think you've got a combo-problem. 1) Breeding age and 2) the wrong size food. Are you continuing to try to feed the same item, or other items from the same...sampling? I'd pop up to a small adult or a bigger hopper, using a new prey item to feed him each time. If he's not "hunting," he's likely not in the mood to eat. What are your temps? Cooler seems to encourage less appetite from what I've seen. JMHO...
 
i noticed that you posted that youre using the mice that were supplied now i dont know if this is true but i had a 4' go off feeding for a few weeks i think my problem was the mice i used had got freezer burn and he didnt like the smell i came to this conclusion because he wont eat mice thawed in water only dry thawed so i bought some multi colored rat pups freshly frozen as soon as i lowered the pup he struck at it hes never been that aggressive before so all my feeders are carefully sealed without air before i put them in the freezer.
 
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