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Annabelle

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Hi, I am new to the site, I'm in kansas. My family has three corns. Yogi is or male creamsicle, Fancy is our female snow, and lola (albino okeetee) is my hatchling that is not doing well.
I got lola at a reptile show last month. I noticed she had a bump on her head and when I asked the breeder he said it was common, so I got her. she ate and everything was fine for the first 3 weeks, now she refuses food. It has been over 2 weeks sense her last meal and I have tried most of the recomeded tricks. I beleive in natural selection, and will not use a pinkie pump. Does anyone no how long it will take her to starve herself. Her skin is already loose. Until then any suggestion are welcome.
Annabelle
 
First of all, welcome to the forums! Browse through the FAQs and previous threads for more suggestions about how to get a hatchling to feed (especially do a search for Jaxom1957's thread "Feeding the Unwilling"). As for letting natural selection take its course, once you take the animal out of its natural environment and make it a pet, it's not really natural selection anymore. :shrug:

Can you detail what methods you've tried to get your baby to feed? Is she in her own viv, or is she being co-habbed? If she's sharing a viv, maybe Yogi or Fancy is stressing Lola. Are the temps in the viv at the right level? Has she regurged, or is it just refusals? How have you been preparing the pinkies you're trying to feed her? Are they live, stunned, pre-killed, frozen/thawed?

By "bump" do you mean her head is dome-shaped? Or there's an injury of some type?

If someone here suggests a method you haven't tried before (or improves upon you have tried), good luck! But if you've given up, please consider euthanizing Lola humanely instead of letting her starve herself to death.

I hope Lola pulls through! Good luck!
 
ok

Thanks for welcoming me.
I don't plan to give up, yet I am worried I'm running out of time. She is caged alone in the quitest room of the house and has been sence we got her. She has dome-head. I have left food in her cage overnight, tried senting the mouse with anole, the two times she ate it was in her deli cup in the closet during the day. I have tried that 3 more times, even with mice from different places. I've given her 1-3 days between trying. I also tried the nudging her body with the pinkie. She is really shy and this seem to frighten her.
Annabelle
 
Quick thought...have you tried heating the mouse up (thawing using extra-hot water; don't microwave the pinky or it could explode), pricking the skin of the back and leaving it in the enclosure? Sometimes all it takes is a little extra mousy smell and heat to get them feeding. You might also want to check your temps and humidity; cold snakes often won't want to eat. Is she still drinking? Snakes can go quite awhile without eating, but it's imperative that they have a good water supply.

Good luck!
 
Hi Annabelle..

Firstly I am sorry to hear of your news of your poorly snake.

I just want to say that both me and Shelby are thinking of you two. I really hope there is a happy ending here.

I got really upset reading this too, I am really sensistive to Corn Snakes esp.

Please keep us informed of Lola's progress.


Good Luck

Rik x
 
braining

I've tried braining 2 of the mice. I've warmed them all in hot water. I even tried on live pinkie. But, the humidity is a possible culprit. it is really hot latley and my air conditioner has left my house a little dry. I'll try spritzing the cage a few time a day befor the next feed. Hopefully it will work, thanks
Annabelle
 
I got lola at a reptile show last month. I noticed she had a bump on her head and when I asked the breeder he said it was common, so I got her. she ate and everything was fine for the first 3 weeks, now she refuses food. It has been over 2 weeks sense her last meal and I have tried most of the recomeded tricks.
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Let it shed... Its probably blue.. I don't recall you mentioning anything about a shed.. Sometimes when they are coming and going from blue, they refuse to eat, likely it would be uncomfortable for them..


thawing using extra-hot water
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Cooked mouse outta do it, hum, ask if it wants medium rare mouse before attempting that one.. :crazy02:


Regards.. Tim of T and J
 
How big is the viv? When I had problems last year with my youngest I found it was because the viv she was in was to big. She felt threatened by the size. I went to the vets and she said it is a common cause of snakes not eating.
 
Hi and welcome to the forums! Sorry to hear you have an issue on your hands. It could be a number of things causing this.

I agree with Tim on this one...If the snake is shedding then most likely it is refusing food because of that reason.

Try waiting longer than 1-3 days before feeding your snake again. Sometimes you can condition the snake to refuse food if you stress it out during a feeding time.

Hopefully the little one starts to eat again.
 
I'm sooooooo happy

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOU ADVICE. She shed last night and ate this morning. My other two eat regardless of shedding, so this is new for me. Something to remember next time :shrugs:
 
Glad to hear it! I think some snakes just don't feel well before a shed, or the clouded eyecaps make it difficult for them to see, so they have no interest in food. Regardless, I'm happy she's eating and doing better.
 
Hi! Nice to meet you! I am so glad to hear she has eaten for you! :)

We've been really lucky with our first pet snake..lol..we've had our corn for about 2 weeks now, he is 6 months old, and was on a diet of live fuzzies before we got him. I was worried he wouldn't accept the f/t fuzzies, but he eats fabulously, and no troubles with regurge so far :) I bought the snake for my 11 yr old son's birthday, and he loves it..named it Hype..lol

Now I am looking into the purchase of my own...mommy wants her own snake..lol
 
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