Hey all,
I purchased a female northern White Lipped Python, supposedly CBB, from an expo a few weeks back (Nov 28th to be exact). I was told that she was eating F/T pinkies and had been fed the previous Wednesday to the show. I've yet to have her take food from me. I'm looking for suggestions or tips to improve my husbandry to make this girl eat!
She is about 3 months old, and she is in a 10g tank with an UTH in my reptile room. Her hot spot is 95-100f and the cool side is high 70's. She has a humid hide over her heat pad, and one on the cool side. She has a humid hide over her UTH and a toilet paper roll hide on her cool side. There is a large water dish on the cool side, with plenty of branches for her to use, which she does. Paper towel substrate.
Now, I've tried feeding her 4 times by tong. She has struck at the pink, but I don't really think it was a feeding response. Once I tried braining the pink a little bit, and she was a bit more interested but still didn't eat. Each time, I leave the pinky in overnight, but no interest. I would like to try live but I don't have access to any live pinkies near me at this time...I've seen her out of her hide plenty, she loves to come out and chill on the branches after I raise her humidity, and I've seen her touring around at night, nothing that, to me, really looks like hunting behaviour though...I realize this species is frequently WC but I do have reason to believe that she is (she didn't come from the actual breeder however).
Any constructive suggestions are appreciated! I'm more of a gecko/lizard person
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