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Originally Posted by kiiarah
... Even a month isn't necessarily unusual for a snake to refuse food and just about anything can trigger it. The primary thing is to remember that they will get hungry eventually and eat on their own....
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I know you mean well. You're asking a lot of questions of your own and that's great to see you have your pet and others at top of mind.
However, you're giving out poor information. In an earlier post you also mentioned about snakes not eating and why. You aren't wrong in that a shed might cause a snake not to eat for a single week but it's not the reason why they would hold out for weeks or months. "Stress" you also mentioned but it's a very general and broad statement.
"Stress" is usually related to husbandry issues. Quite often it's simply a re-check of husbandry to get the animal to eat again. Most keepers don't want to fault themselves so it goes overlooked and the blame is placed on the animal or the prey for whatever reason.
All these tricks are pretty pointless if husbandry is absolutely correct. I have never ever in the hundreds of ball pythons I've dealt with had to use tuna scenting. This includes wild caught babies and adults all the way to CBB babies and adults.
As for this hognose snake, without more details of the set up it's difficult to pinpoint the problem. I'm glad it ate. No clue why it's eating egg whites though. That's just silly. Solutions are usually far more simple than most people realize.
Oh and with the tuna scenting I usually just dip the head in the juice and then pat it dry, then blow dry it the rest of the way. The tuna can be really sticky and I am using shredded aspen, so I try to minimize bedding sticking to the rat by making sure it is completely dry before putting it in.
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