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Feeding & Shedding

PACorn

PACorn

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My new Fluorescent Orange Corn Snake I bought at MARS back on Sept. 16th has been doing pretty fine, up until last night. He has eaten two day old pinkies in that time. Last week he started into his shed mode. Several days later on his scheduled day to eat his eye caps really hazed over so I didn't offer him any meal that night as he didn't seem to want anything. Two days later he shed overnight. Last night I offered him his meal the way I have for the last two successful meals (paper bag method) and he refused to eat it. I placed the pinky in his enclosure over night in a shallow feeding bowl, but this morning it was still there.

Is this normal for a CS to stop eating during and after a shed?

Do I wait a day or two and offer another meal again?
 
Before, during and occasionally shortly after a shed cornsnakes will often behave a little differently form normal, and yes will often not want to eat. I would say wait until the next day you would have normally fed him if he hadn't shed or refused. Snakes are capable of going for quite a long time without food if they have to, so missing a meal or two isn't a big worry. More information would be helpful, such as your normal feeding schedule, when he started to go blue, when he shed, when you attempted to feed.
 
Yeah, this is def nothing to worry. Like sbourget said, I would just wait until the next feeding cuz snakes can go for quite some time without a meal, plus if you wait a little while you will ensure that the snake will be hungary and you wont waste a pinkie. Plus leaving the pinkie in the enclosure might result in the snake dragging it off the feeding dish if he did eat it and could possibly ingest some of the substrate. Hope he eats soon.
 
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