I just rescued a ball python. Poor baby is underweight and was fed live and I am hoping she will take frozen thawed, but I completely agree with your viewpoint. Whether she takes f/t or not, it is my responsibility to see that she gets healthier. So if all of the suggestions don't work, I will, as you say, bite the bullet and give her a small live rat. Hopefully I can transition her, though! Thanks for the video!
I did a while back. No go when I did. I've got her feeding regularly on two mice a week currently. I might try to switching to live rats soon now that she has a routine and knows her feeding time.
Hey I have a 4 month ball python and she always eated for me and she was in shedd and she shedded perfectly and a 4 days after I try to feed her and she didn't eat i then waited a week and today I offered again and she is not eating, I didn't change anything in the terrarium and I didn't change the tipe of food, everything is right like the temperature the humidity and the hides, I don't know what to do, she was in the vet like 3 weeks ago and she was healthy, I don't know what is going on with her, can you help me?
Paula, they will go on and off eating pretty often for any number of reasons - or no reason! Check humidity and temps, clean cage, and then just keep offering once a week. They can go a very long time without food. My male just started eating again after three months not eating. Make sure the husbandry is right and they will eventually eat.
I had the same thing with an orange ghost got her at a year and a couple of months not a lot bigger than 200 grams breeder told me she was a problem feeder but would feed payed full price for her she was tiny on the day she came but give her a week offered her a frozen thawed rat weener and she took it straight away i thaw my rodents in the room and the last 2 hours i put them on an heatmat at 90 degrees turning it about every half hour dip the head in hot water in a flask mug and she never misses she is upto her full size and weight for her age now but i don't like feeding live and its against the law in the uk but got 2 more so called problem feeders since and had no problem with them 1 is on asf and the other is on rats but the last 2 was only babies so they didn't need alot to catch up
Shes a nice snake fella she will get there when she gets there thats what i say so if she doesn't breed till she's 4 as long as she is healthy there's no rush
@@ProperRoyals good luck buddy you will get there but now rush i got a few recessive visual males to start so its the long game iam going for so you look like your like me time isn't the problem the snakes are priority best of luck
I just rescued a ball python. Poor baby is underweight and was fed live and I am hoping she will take frozen thawed, but I completely agree with your viewpoint. Whether she takes f/t or not, it is my responsibility to see that she gets healthier. So if all of the suggestions don't work, I will, as you say, bite the bullet and give her a small live rat. Hopefully I can transition her, though! Thanks for the video!
Good luck, and thanks for looking out for that animal. 🖤🙏
Have you tried giving her live rat pups?
I did a while back. No go when I did. I've got her feeding regularly on two mice a week currently. I might try to switching to live rats soon now that she has a routine and knows her feeding time.
Hey I have a 4 month ball python and she always eated for me and she was in shedd and she shedded perfectly and a 4 days after I try to feed her and she didn't eat i then waited a week and today I offered again and she is not eating, I didn't change anything in the terrarium and I didn't change the tipe of food, everything is right like the temperature the humidity and the hides, I don't know what to do, she was in the vet like 3 weeks ago and she was healthy, I don't know what is going on with her, can you help me?
Paula, they will go on and off eating pretty often for any number of reasons - or no reason! Check humidity and temps, clean cage, and then just keep offering once a week. They can go a very long time without food. My male just started eating again after three months not eating. Make sure the husbandry is right and they will eventually eat.
@@ProperRoyals ok, I will do that, thanks
@@lalapascoca1 Good luck, it will come around.
I had the same thing with an orange ghost got her at a year and a couple of months not a lot bigger than 200 grams breeder told me she was a problem feeder but would feed payed full price for her she was tiny on the day she came but give her a week offered her a frozen thawed rat weener and she took it straight away i thaw my rodents in the room and the last 2 hours i put them on an heatmat at 90 degrees turning it about every half hour dip the head in hot water in a flask mug and she never misses she is upto her full size and weight for her age now but i don't like feeding live and its against the law in the uk but got 2 more so called problem feeders since and had no problem with them 1 is on asf and the other is on rats but the last 2 was only babies so they didn't need alot to catch up
Shes a nice snake fella she will get there when she gets there thats what i say so if she doesn't breed till she's 4 as long as she is healthy there's no rush
Yup, she's doing well now on live mice. When work slows down some, I'll back to working on switching to FT Rats.
@@ProperRoyals good on you buddy
@@ProperRoyals good luck buddy you will get there but now rush i got a few recessive visual males to start so its the long game iam going for so you look like your like me time isn't the problem the snakes are priority best of luck