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Chino Not eating.

MACS76

MACS76

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Chino has not eaten sense 12/13/13. At that time I found out that in the evening and nigh time they cut the heat to the room. She(we think but not sure) now has two UTH one set at 72 degrees F and the other set at 88degrees F. She stays in her hide(warm side) or goes up a branch in the evening.

I have continued her feeding schedule of every 5 days. She will not eat. Her weight has changed fro 35g to 34g over this time. Should I worry or just give her more time.

I also have not had the student handling her sense the break. Should I go back to the handling. Any Feed back is GREAT.
 
Hmm... My only suggestion would be to add more hides. Sounds like she is in a classroom setting. She might feel too exposed (but I don't know your set up so it's hard to say).
 
Three hides one warm, one cool, one in middle. Three branches to craw on or in and vines that she can hide in.
 
You could also try scenting the mouse. I have heard that scenting it with a lizard such as an anole will entice a troubled corn to feed.
 
Boiling and lizard scenting has worked 99% of the time for me!!
Boiling pinks is just fine to do, and done quite often. I just microwave a cup of water and then put the pinkie in as soon as I am done microwaving. It will sizzle and turn white, then you can offer it to your snake.
 
Thank You all SHE ate her pinkie weight had dropped to 34g. Working on trying a second pinkie. If she does not eat it I will try her next week on another round of pinkies and then work her back to the fuzzies.
 
ClutchItAllDay said:
Hey Nanci I was told not to boil pinks. Does it even really matter?
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You don't normally boil pinks when preparing them.

I heard, long ago, that boiled pinks would work for getting non-feeder hatchlings to eat. Silly me, I thought that really really really hot was just as good. The same thing. Like, if I took the hottest tap water, and thawed them in that, it was the same. It never worked for me.

Then Tara was heating pinks, and accidentally left them on a burner on high, and they boiled, and she fed them, and all her non-feeders ate. So I tried it on three of my non-feeders, and they all ate. I'm talking babies that had refused EVERYTHING.

So- in terms of tempting a non-feeding snake to eat, it matters a LOT. My method is thaw in hot water, then pour boiling water over the pinks and serve just like that- boiling hot. It tempts about 90-95% of my non-feeders, and has worked just as well for most other people. It is like a miracle of snake-raising. It has even worked on king snake hatchlings, who are notorious lizard eaters.

I have _never_ had luck with lizard scenting, BTW.
 
I checked it out and body temp of a live mouse is 98 degrees F. Maybe that is what they are looking for is the heat.
 
Corns are quite unique in their "hunting" methods, as they've evolved to rely on each of their senses almost equally. While some species are more dominantly temperature reliant and others are more dominantly scent reliant (with a few exceptional species using actual sight more than anything else), Corns seem to utilize a combination of all of it.
 
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