Problem feeder

[lady_bug87]

Not necessarily true, My girl's temp dips into the mid 70s at night and she feeds like a champ and is growing steadily eating mouse hoppers at 7mos

If the humidity at night is no issue I would attribute the lack of feed response to a change in prey GTPs can be picky eaters we had an issue when we initially got her with feeding. To get her to start I took the f/t prey and tickled her tail with it. Since it is my understanding that they 'fish' with the tip of it it was a natural hunting response that got her to eat. Since then the only time she refused a meal is when I offer a rat or any kind of rat smelling food item.

It could also be stressed after changing homes. Just offer food every 7-10 days and try tickling the tail and body with the food.

[David RB]

Originally Posted by lady_bug87

Not necessarily true, My girl's temp dips into the mid 70s at night and she feeds like a champ and is growing steadily eating mouse hoppers at 7mos

It could also be stressed after changing homes. Just offer food every 7-10 days and try tickling the tail and body with the food.

I certainly agree that chondros can be determinedly mono-phagous, not just to rat or mouse but even by the species of mouse as I discovered recently,to my cost, with an adult that had only ever eaten freshly killed house mice.
Once established then they will tolerate low night temperatures and continue to feed but this animal has recently been rehoused. This seems to be a substantial stressor to Chondros and I have often found that dormant RIs will manifest following a change in homes.
There is a lot of information on the temperatures that the Highland forms, in particular will tolerate in Karl Switak's book "Adventures in Green tree python country."

[Jenn_06]

with GTP you sometimes have to make them mad, rub the prekilled on him tap him with it just make him mad and then he will try to bite it a few times then cruel around it, worked for my little one and she never missed a meal after that.

[warnerk]

Yeah the only way i get a reaction out of the snake is when i touch him with the food but he has never struck at the mouse, he may start breathing heavy like hes about to strike but he never does. Im starting to adjust the temps a bit so that my average night temp is around the 80s, but I just noticed that he has a bunch of skin he looks like he might be trying to still shed. How is my set up? does it have everything he needs to be happy?

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[lady_bug87]

Originally Posted by David RB

I certainly agree that chondros can be determinedly mono-phagous, not just to rat or mouse but even by the species of mouse as I discovered recently,to my cost, with an adult that had only ever eaten freshly killed house mice.
Once established then they will tolerate low night temperatures and continue to feed but this animal has recently been rehoused. This seems to be a substantial stressor to Chondros and I have often found that dormant RIs will manifest following a change in homes.
There is a lot of information on the temperatures that the Highland forms, in particular will tolerate in Karl Switak's book "Adventures in Green tree python country."

of course, very well put.