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Why did she turn her nose up?

Haya Tha'baan

Haya Tha'baan

my little worm
I attempted to feed her when she was looking a bit grey. Her eyes weren't blue yet and I've fed her in this state before, but she wasn't interested in eating, so I figured she was extra sensitive this shed time. So I waited until she was done shedding and I attempted to feed her 24 hours after.

I offer her 3 large fuzzy mice since they don't offer weanlings where I live and adults are too big. She ate one and poked the others with her snout and that was it. She ate just fine til now but a few issues I thought of: I feed her in a mesh laundry basket and she spends a lot of time trying to poke through the holes so maybe she's distracted by that. I also thaw my mice in water and I heard that washes away the smell and was advised to thaw in a ziplock bag so that they're more enticing.

I know she's hungry because she's poking her head out of her hide even in the daytime. She does that around the time I'm supposed to feed her. Any other ideas?
 
Personally, I would feed in the viv. Also, make sure those mice are nice and warm. With stubborn babies, I often wash and dry pinkies, I don't find that washing hurts for most. In fact, it can help with some.
 
If she's been eating fine, and didn't just this once, I wouldn't worry at all. Some snakes that have been on multiple prey items decide at some point that they will only eat one thing at a time. Or maybe she's going blue and doesn't _really_ feel so hungry, so she stopped after one. I wouldn't worry about it.
 
Has she eaten multiple items in the past? I have some snakes that just won't eat more than one item, no matter how hungry they are or the size of the offerings. Every once in awhile, I'll have a snake refuse the meal after a shed as well as the one offered while blue. Also, some snakes seem to know instinctively what season it is, even if we don't alter the temps in their viv, and they go off food temporarily in anticipation of brumation. I wouldn't be too worried at the moment, she did eat the one fuzzy. Wait and see what she does next scheduled feeding.
 
I was going to post something, but realized Nanci pretty much summed up what I was thinking pretty well. So I agree with what Nanci said.
 
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