Questions about feeding BP

Our juvi ball won't eat....?


We have a juvi ball python, we purchased it in February of this year. It ate fine the first three times we fed him/her, but it has stopped eating (hasn't eaten since beginning of March). I have done several searchs online looking for advice, however nothing I have found hasn't worked. I was hoping someone here may have an idea on how to get our snake to eat. He/she soaks in the water dish, sheds regularly (has shed five times since we bought it), and moves around the tank, likes to hide under its tree branches that are in the enclosure. What can we do to get it to eat. When it was eating, it would eat one adult mouse every 8 days. Refuses to eat solid colored mice so we only offer 'broken' colored ones, but will not eat. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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if he still has good weigth then I would get to worried yet. Try feeding smaller mice. I had some go off food for 6 months and then only started etting again when I offered fuzzy mice. Of course I gave them all the fuzies they would take once they finally ate. but just kep trying differnt sizes and also may try pinky rats or use a gerbil to sent the mice. this will work sometimes too.

Also buy The Ball Python Manual, it ahs alot of good ideas in there also.

i found in some cases, dipping the mice in chicken broth does wonders........