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Kenyan sand boa
05-14-14, 02:41 PM
I have a KSB who will not eat. He is a 10 inch male, 25 grams. He lives in a 20 gallon tank. The substrate is walnut. He has heat pad on one end of his terrarium at 92 degreesF. He has a cave, a water bowl, and a rock to help him shed. When we bought him at an expo he was feeding well on defrosted pinkies. He ate twice in a Tupperware container before he started refusing food. We have tried feeding him in a paper bag, turning the lights off, braining pinkies, wiping
shed giant day gecko skin on the pinky, putting a blanket over the container, wiggling the pinky, feeding african soft furred rat pinkies, wiggling those, and rubbing them on a crested gecko shed.
If anyone knows how to help him eat please reply.

CK SandBoas
05-17-14, 09:29 AM
How long has it been since his last meal? And how often were you trying all those methods? I have a few younger males that have refused their past couple meals, and it is entirely possible that they are interested in breeding, even at such a small weight.

You may also think about downsizing your enclosure....A 20 gallon is huge, even for a fully grown adult male Kenyan.....What I would do is offer only once a week, put the snake and pinky in a deli cup that has air holes in it, and place the cup with the snake and the prey item in the enclosure...