anaconda diet

[erantheking21]

When i got him a week and a half ago he ate a guinia pig at the snake farm, but now i try to give him frozen mice he woulnt eat, he tried one to bite eat and then left him
He is 1.5 years old and like 1.4 meters
1.beacuse he is still not adapt at the cage??
2.beacuse he still full from the guinia pig?
3.they dont eat frozen mice?

[Tsubaki]

Frozen mice? Why would you feed something that small to a snake that size? Feed it a normal sized prey.

[PsychoSnake]

You need to completely THAW the food before feeding. They cannot eat frozen food. Also the size of the rat or rabbits needs to be the size of the thickest part of the body.

[erantheking21]

i gave him a rat and not a mice
my mastike
i heard he can eat rats.

its possibale that he doesnt eat couse he is still in stress ? when i come near the cage he puts his head back in the cave

or that he is still not hungry after a guinia pig?

[PsychoSnake]

Yes it could be stress. Try covering his cage with a towel and leave the rat and him alone. Disturb him minimally on feeding day. This worked well for my green anaconda. Now I just leave the rat in the cage and check on him an hour later and it's gone! :) it took my green anaconda 3 weeks to adjust to his current home.

[erantheking21]

she started to settle and she ate. thanks

[SSSSnakes]

My anaconda eats rats or guinea pigs. He also takes the winter off from eating every year.

[Albert Clark]

she started to settle and she ate. thanks

Glad she began to eat for you! Probably has plenty of reserve stores of fat either way.