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need feeding help!!!!

I agree Bitsy, the heat source should be use as it was directed, & I should have clarified. I only wanted to point out that under belly heat is not the only way to do it.

Yes, snakes can scale the side of a tank, better than you would think. When I got my first hatchlings, I had a 10gallong tank that had a glass divider in the middle, but the divider didn't fully extend to the lid. There was a gap at the very top. One of the hatchlings very quickly figured out how to get up & over that divider, & into the other section of the tank, with the other hatchling. I got rid of that tank after that.
 
CRAZY!

i just ended up putting the lights we have on top of the tank cause i was trying to get stuff around the house done. it finally heated up to 84 with the lights on, so we are going to use those tell we are able to go to home depot on monday to get a dimmer switch.

still dont know what to do about him not eating, we were told to try again and dangle the mouse but thats not working but you can tell hes getting hungry cause hes getting feisty but i told my husband not to try but hes trying to feed it again. ugh i feel bad for that snake!
 
If I read this correctly the tail shapes are different, a good clue to them being different sexes. Also a very good reason to separate them. The temps need to be taken on or under the bedding as that is where the snake spends most of its time. I doubt it is warm enough in Kansas for the snakes without a UTH, not sure why you turned it off.
 
well we took the one back that was looking sickly, so we only have one right now.
once we figure everything out and actually know what we are doing for sure, and if my husband still wants another one, then and only then will we think about getting another one. =]

its been pretty warm here tell the dang rain moved though, but still with it being off and we are keeping it warm right now with the light is 84 in patches tank. It was dd seeing him on the cool side beside the water dish and the glass this morning hes never over there! maybe he has learned that there is more to his tank then the one hide, or he just tired of being warm wither way i was surprised!

Also is there a certain % that his humidity should stay around?
 
My gang tend to spend most of their time at the cool end, only moving to the warm end to digest or if they're feeling under the weather - sometimes when they're about to shed. As long as that warm side is within the safe range, then it's pretty normal to find them hanging out at the cool end.

You really need two hides minimum - one on the warm side and one on the cool side, so that he can choose which one to use. That way he doesn't feel forced into a temperature range where he doesn't feel comfortable.
 
SO, my little buddy still wont eat he hasnt eaten for 14 days for us!

patches is in his Tupperware right now with his little pinkie mouse and wont eat it, its beginning to worry me. i dont know what else to do for it.

UGH HELP ME lol

Side note, we got our dimmer today and we have the heating pad set at 86.
 
Good on the dimmer!
Did you put some more hides in there with him?

Wait at least 5 days between trying to feed. You'll teach him to refuse otherwise.
 
well he has one on each side and a log he goes in.. ill have to get pics of it and get your opinion on his housing! =]

ok i will do that, i went to petco where we got him and i told him that hes not eating they said none of there corn snakes are, is that odd? and that if he doesnt end up eating and looks sickly in a few months that we should bring him back and get another. have you ever heard of that?
 
Has your snake ever eaten?

Does the pet store know?

Trying to get a non-feeder that has never eaten to feed can be a trick.
And sometimes they never eat.

How are you attempting to feed?
Walk us through it and we will give you tips.
 
1) take pinkie out of the freezer and put it warm water to thaw.
2) wait about 20mins so the little mouse is warmer then room temp.
3) put patches in his little Tupperware thing
4) EITHER
A) dangle the little mouse "night of the living dead style" so it might try to attack it
B) just lay it in there so it will pass by and be like wow a mouse nummy
C) we have also tried it once with its head cut open, yucky but i totally understood why that might work, but alas it didn't.

5) leave him in the Tupperware in the kitchen with a towel over it for a few hours, once even over night.

thats what we try, i hope its not sick there not a vet close to us that does snakes that i could find.

also is it true that they can go along time with out eating? i could see a big one not eating for a while but not a little one! =[ eek
 
I had problems getting my petco baby to eat right at first too. I ended up getting a small disposable coffee cup (like they give you at Starbucks), wadding up a bit of paper towel, shoving the snake in with a thawed pinky and threw on the lid (tape up the mouth piece or they'll crawl out!). After 30 minutes the pinky was gone. I had tried everything you described above and this was what finally worked for me.
 
im going to try to feed this little guy again tonight..

i hope it eats he hasnt eaten sense the 3rd ugh he bothers me, he still looks healthy not looking any different then when we bought him.

has this ever happened to anyone else? some guy told me his only eats every 7ms. but that doesnt sound healthy at all ( i wish i could go that long)
 
A healthy baby should eat every five to seven days. I would heat the pink in hot water for a few minutes. When it is thawed, run it under very hot tap water for 30 seconds, then put the pink in your feeding container, put the snake in, close the lid, cover it up, leave him alone with no peeking for an hour. If he hasn't eaten, do that again. If he still doesn't eat, reheat the pink and put him and the feeding container in his viv over night. I'd feed him in the evening when he is normally active.
 
still didnt eat! its been almost a freakin month sense he has eaten!

but he looks as good as when we got it!

i will try again next week =[
 
How did you try to feed him? I'd probably try again in four days. Is it possible he's blue?
 
:shrugs: i dont think so, if anything he looks a bit shinier then normal!

i just thawed out and warmed up the mousy, put patches in his Tupperware and left him alone in the dark with a towel for a while like 3 hours. then peeked on him but nothing so i put him back in his tank cause i didnt want to leave him out over night, last night!
 
Put him in his tank, in the feeding tub, and leave him overnight (as long as there are airholes in the feeding tub!). Sometimes they need absolute dark and quiet for hours before they feel safe enough to eat.
 
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