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02-02-05, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Aug-2003
Location: SJ, NB
Age: 46
Posts: 834
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Non feeding ball update
The non feeding ball is now a feeding ball. I have had him since July and he ate one mouse. Yesterday he ate a small/ medium rat left in his cage overnight.
Several months and alot of patience but he is finally eating....for now.
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0.1 BCI 2.2 balls
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02-02-05, 11:39 AM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Posts: 4,768
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Was the rat left in the cage F/T or live? If F/T you're very lucky because that is the easiest way to feed a snake, drop it in and walk away.
Cheers,
Trevor
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02-02-05, 12:05 PM
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Super Genius
Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Southwestern Ontario
Age: 49
Posts: 6,292
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Congratulations on having an eating ball, and for not pulling out all your hair and going crazy.
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02-02-05, 11:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug-2003
Location: SJ, NB
Age: 46
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Neither, it was pre killed. I breed enough rats for my snakes. I killed a small rat, dropped it in, covered the cage and went drinking.
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0.1 BCI 2.2 balls
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02-03-05, 12:30 AM
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Join Date: May-2004
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Age: 36
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Sounds good, happy to your ball python is eating again.
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0.2 malaysian bloods, 1.0 pastel ball pthon, 1.1 het albino ball python, 0.2 66% het albino ball python, 0.6 50% het albino ball python, 0.12 normal ball pythons, 1.0 normal ball pythons, 1.0 rainwater albino leopard gecko, 0.1 reg leopard geckos.
Thats all for now, will have more soon (Hopefully)
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02-03-05, 01:27 AM
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Join Date: Oct-2004
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I'm new here so I dont know how knowleged you are in this area, but in all the research I've done in the last few months, I've found that most of the time, the reason a ball will go off feed is due to lack of humidity.
I'm currently dealing with exactly that problem, and my ball refused a rat last sunday, which I either take as a problem switching over from mice, or low humidity (humidity was at 40% ACK!).
So I'm curious... do you know what your humidity levels have been? Did it go up just before he started eating again?
Oh and congrats on the successful feeding! 
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02-03-05, 02:59 AM
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Join Date: Oct-2003
Location: Edmonton Alberta
Age: 50
Posts: 703
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Where did you see that humidity vs bad feeding response thing? I don't remember it being mentioned before.
The reason I ask, is untill very recently I was housing my Ball in a tank and the humidity was always low... A large humid hide made for OK sheds and all but I never noticed a decrease in feeding response and when I say low humidity I mean LOW as in around 10% ambient in the winter months when the furnace is running. Granted I could just be lucky, but i've had Ymir for 8 years or so now and until this winter he'd never missed more than 1 meal.
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02-03-05, 08:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr-2004
Location: Virginia, USA
Age: 45
Posts: 713
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Ive heard that before, the humidity thing.... dont know how much truth there is too it but I have heard it. 40 isnt that bad for humidity either. I keep mine between 50 and 60, and have never had a problem till now. Still havving issues with this accursed rubbermaid, but my humidity is the same in there as it was in the tank, just has a smaller water dish. I do miss the snake olympic swimming pool I had in the tank, though.
Mark- congrats on the feeding. Hope he keeps it up for ya!
Artemis
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02-03-05, 09:08 AM
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Join Date: Oct-2004
Posts: 201
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Quote:
Originally posted by Artemis
Still havving issues with this accursed rubbermaid, but my humidity is the same in there as it was in the tank
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Now THIS is interesting. What kind of problems? Why did you switch?
Slannesh: 10%??? REALLY?? And no problems?? Maybe I shouldn't be worried at all then about my 40%!
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02-03-05, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Feb-2004
Location: Edmonton
Age: 46
Posts: 842
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The snakes in the tanks here suffer with lower humidity too (40 - 50%) but they are all eating. When they go into shed I mist daily to increase humidity but I've never had snakes go off feed from low humidity. Low heat will cause a fast though, they won't be able to digest and so they won't eat.
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Nita Hamilton
BALL PYTHONS!!
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