My corn snake didn't eat her food

[Iseitaku]

I have two corn snakes Red and Ruby. Ruby always eats her food with a "vicious" mindset striking and strangling her (dead hopper mice) almost instantly. However I had just fed them and Ruby didn't even go for the mouse

I am worried its mouth rot but I cant get her to open her mouth to check.

[zedth0]

Did you try leaving the mouse in the tank and turning out all the lights? My one corn is picky and won't usually eat until I turn out the lights and don't move. Actually just tonight I put a blanket over his tank and just left him for like an hour and half later he was done eating. I would try that first.

I don't know anything about mouth rot. I would guess she's probably fine if she's been accepting meals previously and hasn't gone on a hungry strike for a while she might be going into blue or something.

As far as opening her mouth I have done one thing. I have no idea if this is the right way or not but I did it with my rainbow boa. Get like a smooth wooden stick and hold her behind the head firmly but not in any kind of harmful way then I wiggled the stick long ways to open her mouth to look into her mouth. She had some substrate stuck in her mouth that she couldn't get so I had to open her mouth. I'm still shocked I even did that, though she did manage to get the substrate out by herself.

That's just my experience but I haven't had much experience.

[craigafrechette]

Are the two snakes housed separately or together?

What makes you think it's mouth rot?