Hi all.
TLDR: My first question is how long can i leave a thawed mouse in a tupperware w my snake for feeding? 2nd question, any ideas what im doing wrong here and how i can entice this finicky snake
Have a female born in june 24. I got her in sept 24. Ate frozen rat babies once a week w no issues for many months. Until like 1.5 months ago. I was reading online and it said to go up a size for rhe weight of my snake. The place i get them from didnt have rat weeners but had xl mice the same weight and rep said its fine. The snake ate it once, then stopped eating all together for about 6 weeks now. I am very worried for her. She looks good and acts fine but just wont eat. My thaw process is i put the frozen item in a bag and sous vide it for 45 m to an hour at 104 degrees. Then i use my tongs, tap a few times on her tank and coax her out a bit . She seems very interested but just doesnt strike anymore. I try for about 10 minutes but she ends up just climbing around the enclosure w no interest in the food. The enclosure is like 2 feet deep, 4 feet wide , and 3 feet high. I keep it at 85/80, and humidity at 70. At night i have the red heat lamps bc i have a deep bioactive soil w live plants so its the only way i could think of to heat the tank and see what its doing at night. I thought maybe the red light bothered her so i shut those off. No change. I even tried a live rat pup twice. Nothing. I was at a reptile show today and several people there said the enclosure is way too big for such a small snake. So now i put her in a tupperware for a few hours. I just dropped another thawed mouse in there. My first question is how long can i leave it in there? I was worried if i juat dangle the mouse the snake would just get out of the tupperware, so i ipened the top and put the mouse in there and closed it again. 2nd question, any ideas what im doing wrong here and how i can entice this finicky snake ? Sorry for the novel i novel i wrote here.