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STILL NOT FEEDING

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progressive74

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I have just come home to find that my corn has now had his first shed which is great, when i got in he was out from under his bark and searching the viv, i attempted to feed him but he was simply not intrested and hid under a rock. it has now been twenty days since he last ate. should i be concerned?
 
put him/her in a deli cup and leave a thawed pink in there, put the top on and put the cup in the dark or in something that he can't see anything but that pinky.

if he hasn't eaten for you YET while being in the tank you have a better chance if he is in a smaller setting where he can comfortably confront his food and ingest without harassment.

Good luck, keep us posted
 
YES!!!!!

ok so i left some food in a container inside his viv and i came in this morning to find that it had been eaten thank god, i am now happy that he has both shed and fed. now i could just stop him biting me when i try and handle him i shall be much happier
 
The reason he took so long to start feeding is because you are handling him!!! If it didn't eat for 20 days you shouldn't have been holding it at all during this time.

If a snake stops feeding you stop holding it. They do not like being held, and it can cause young ones to stop feeding for weeks. If you KEEP holding it, they less they will want to eat. Leave it ALONE for a couple weeks until it gets on a regular feeding schedual.

good luck
bmm
 
Bmm's right

and don't worry about the biting. It's highly unlikely that this will continue as he gets older. You can't calm a hatchling. Flightyness and biting are just in their nature, some more than others. Handling isn't going to speed anything up, just stress the snake, IMHO.

I have a real devil I produced this year that is the most aggressive hatchling I've seen out of hundreds, and I haven't (quite) given up hope that he'll calm and normal by this time next year.
 
And when it eats, don't hold it again for at least three days. I finnaly got my hatchling to eat, held her two days after, and that morning I found a little regurgitated pinky in the tank. I'm sure hatchlings are more likely to regurg. from stress than adults.
 
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