Hognose wont eat

[acidonangles]

He is very movement bound and the tank is a see through glass. They said he ate frozen thawed and is being kept at 30-40% humidity. How much should he weigh? I have a scale but I am not sure if it's correct because it says he is 0.4 oz

[acidonangles]

[QUOTE=Minkness;945927]Hmmm....

I hate to hijack this threat but I'm learning so much from it. I hope you all don't mind if I ask other questions. If you do, please just PM your answers./QUOTE]


Ask way. The more people know the better.

[Cmwells90]

Originally Posted by acidonangles

He is very movement bound and the tank is a see through glass. They said he ate frozen thawed and is being kept at 30-40% humidity. How much should he weigh? I have a scale but I am not sure if it's correct because it says he is 0.4 oz

I wouldn't worry too much. The issue with the weight is that babies all grow so differently, some grow very quickly while young, others don't. So if I gave you the weight of my hoggie at that age, it will surely be different.

[acidonangles]

Thanks guys Just as a first time snake owner i am worried. I am feeding him tomorrow and hoping he takes it. What are the signs that he wants to eat? Like some will strike at it but i am not sure if thats true for hognose snakes.

[Cmwells90]

Originally Posted by acidonangles

Thanks guys Just as a first time snake owner i am worried. I am feeding him tomorrow and hoping he takes it. What are the signs that he wants to eat? Like some will strike at it but i am not sure if thats true for hognose snakes.

Don't worry I'm sure most of us have been there, I would ask questions just to be sure it wasn't something to worry about! The only sign I use is if my hoggie is active, but lately that seems to not be working because he's active, just not eating. So I would just keep offering until he decides he's ready to eat again haha.

[Minkness]

Here's a question....

If you thaw the food item and the snake refuses, can you refreez and thaw to feed later?

[Tsubaki]

You can, there was an entire topic about not too long ago actually. I would be careful refreezing more than once, it doesn't do the quality any good. The prey might go mushy and burst open when the snake grabs it.

[SnoopySnake]

Originally Posted by Minkness

Here's a question....

If you thaw the food item and the snake refuses, can you refreez and thaw to feed later?

Yes, however I would only refreeze once and wouldn't refreeze pinks. I did that once and the pinkie bursted while freezing and the other one bursted when the snake grabbed it.

[Minkness]

Ew...thanks for the heads up!

[Kuamata]

Originally Posted by acidonangles

Thanks guys Just as a first time snake owner i am worried. I am feeding him tomorrow and hoping he takes it. What are the signs that he wants to eat? Like some will strike at it but i am not sure if thats true for hognose snakes.

My hoggie, when I had him, just kinda went at it... No strike or S shaped coil back, just slithered up to it and -nom!-. Often made the mistake of biting the belly, but, eh, he got it eventually lol.

[Minkness]

Lol my girl git the belly of hers last I fed. She looked frustrated as she tried fitting it in sideways XD

She got it eventually...from the tail!

Being a newb I worried "omg what if eating it backwards is baaad!" But she got it all down nice and easy so I figured so long as the end result was the same, nose or tail first shouldn't matter lol.

[Kuamata]

Originally Posted by Minkness

Lol my girl git the belly of hers last I fed. She looked frustrated as she tried fitting it in sideways XD

She got it eventually...from the tail!

Being a newb I worried "omg what if eating it backwards is baaad!" But she got it all down nice and easy so I figured so long as the end result was the same, nose or tail first shouldn't matter lol.

Being already dead, nah, doesn't really matter. If it were live, then, yeah. Back end first would make it easier to attack the snake, but I know you feed dead, so.

[Minkness]

That's right! Lol

[Eggplant]

I recently saw a video of a hognose going after some boiled egg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF5xt_V4Ge4

So I let my hognose (Brent) smell the fork I was using to eat my egg this morning. She went crazy for it o_O.. Which was surprising because she rarely ever strikes at her food.

I did some research and found that it shouldn't be harmful for them to eat cooked egg (apparently they do eat raw eggs in the wild) though it probably wont be good if you ONLY feed them egg.

I suggest you try scenting your mice with egg (I think both yolk and white is ok). Or just stick to feeding her some egg (cut up) for now and once she starts eating egg try switching over to mice by scenting the mice with egg.

[Eggplant]

Originally Posted by Kuamata

Being already dead, nah, doesn't really matter. If it were live, then, yeah. Back end first would make it easier to attack the snake, but I know you feed dead, so.

My hog successfully ate a live fuzzy backwards yesterday night. Took her almost 30 mins poor mousie