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Reluctant to eat today...

Maloof

Maloof

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Hey guys my year and a half corn was very slow to eat today and it has me worried. Every time he has ever fed he has been very quick to strike and he even coils each time. Today he just kind of lazily wondered over to the mouse and bit it and started eating. No striking and no coiling. The only difference I can think of is that the mouse got a little bloody this time during thawing but if anything I'd think that would make him more enthusiastic. He isn't going through a shed cycle so it can't be that... Could this be a warning of a health condition or was he just eating slower today? Thanks guys.
 
It is hard to tell from one eating... but as long as he is acting normal otherwise (not limp when you hold him, no bubbles when breathing, no mites or scale rot), I wouldn't worry.

Maybe he just finally realized that the mice were already dead! ;-)
 
Do you eat the same every day? Have there been days when you weren't really hungry? Have there been days when you just felt like taking life slow? Some days you are just not yourself. Kind of sluggish. Activia.
 
lol, Wade.

I wouldn't worry too much yet. Any chance you're getting near the end of a bag of mice? My snakes seem to eat "fresher" mice from a new order a lot more enthusiastically than the ones that have been in the freezer for a few months.
 
Maybe he has other things on his mind. It's spring, ya know! Many males will go on a bit of a hunger strike this time of year.
 
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