Hello all,
I'm a bit worried about my corn snake. It's always taken food without any problems. He/she is around 2 years old now. I've pretty much sticked to feeding schedules and never had any problems with feeding. On the contrary he always seemed to want more and took food straight from the tweezers. I've always given thawed mice. Never had a regurge or anything like that.
There are no signs of being sick and he's still very active. He's always been a very active snake (chose the most lively one from the nest ;-)
It's been two weeks now since he's fed and refused a meal three times now. Normally I feed every 7/8 days. For a few months he's been taking two bigger or three small weened/ medium mice. I now first tried an adult mouse, the weight around 29gr. more or less the same weight as I fed before with two medium mice. I figured he didn't like the adult mouse so I tried a few days later with two weaned but he didn't take those either.
Should I be worried or is this not abnormal? I was thinking maybe he/she is getting around sexual maturity and he's priorities have shifted ;-) Is there a period of the year where snakes are thinking about nothing else then reproducing?
I'm a bit worried about my corn snake. It's always taken food without any problems. He/she is around 2 years old now. I've pretty much sticked to feeding schedules and never had any problems with feeding. On the contrary he always seemed to want more and took food straight from the tweezers. I've always given thawed mice. Never had a regurge or anything like that.
There are no signs of being sick and he's still very active. He's always been a very active snake (chose the most lively one from the nest ;-)
It's been two weeks now since he's fed and refused a meal three times now. Normally I feed every 7/8 days. For a few months he's been taking two bigger or three small weened/ medium mice. I now first tried an adult mouse, the weight around 29gr. more or less the same weight as I fed before with two medium mice. I figured he didn't like the adult mouse so I tried a few days later with two weaned but he didn't take those either.
Should I be worried or is this not abnormal? I was thinking maybe he/she is getting around sexual maturity and he's priorities have shifted ;-) Is there a period of the year where snakes are thinking about nothing else then reproducing?
as long as he's not losing weight and the poop is fine he should be fine!