Can’t get baby sand boa to eat, tried everything.
Hello, I purchased my little guy from a pet expo Oct. 21st. I was told he was roughly 2 mo and had eaten a week before the show and always ate live pinkies.
I have tried everything
-live
-frozen
-braining
-garlic
-leaving overnight
-dangling
-feeding in enclosure
-feeding outside of enclosure
-putting tub inside enclosure
-made mouse nest
He seems interested. He will look at it, come out of the sand to look at it, even sit by the mouse nest almost completely out of the substrate, but he will not eat.
He is in a 10 gallon aquarium, cal sand is substrate, has an under tank heater and a non light over tank heater I only turn on during the day, he has a water dish and a cardboard hide away. The temp range is 95 on one side and 70 on other. The hide away is on hot side
He weighs 6 grams and I saw on one site that hatchlings weigh around 7 or 8 grams. So he is not conserving body fat but might have lost weight. His skin also seems slightly loose.
I have a vet appointment for him on nov 16th, and I’m going to try another live pinkie next Monday.
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