Skyler update

[CDN_Blood]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

Has she been eating again?

Nope, still only eaten once since November. I'm hoping some exposure to the Sun today will kick her back into wanting to eat...

[alessia55]

I loooove Skyler. Probably one of my favorite snakes in your care

[Snakesitter]

She's looking good for someone playing supermodel diet. ;-) Hopefully the sun helps!

[CDN_Blood]

Originally Posted by Snakesitter

She's looking good for someone playing supermodel diet. ;-) Hopefully the sun helps!

Supermodel, lol. I'm just about ready to offer her a live mouse if a couple of days of sun doesn't do the trick. Thankfully she came to me with quite a bit of extra weight, so she's had lots to ride on since, but she's starting to look a little thin for my liking...just a tad, so it's time to pull some tricks out of my bag of goodies

[Snakesitter]

I say go for it. Even one small live might reawaken her feeding instincts. Please keep us posted!

[CDN_Blood]

A couple from today...

[Hurrok]

Gorgeous! Hopefully she goes back on feeding soon, I'm sure the sun will help too. Although she does look pretty nice!

[Snakesitter]

I think we need a daily pict from now on. ;-) (Kidding!!!)

[Caylan]

If we didn;t see how big she was last year, you'd swear she was still eating really well this whole time lol. I still think her colour beats that of any rainbow boa out there!

[millertime89]

Originally Posted by Caylan

If we didn;t see how big she was last year, you'd swear she was still eating really well this whole time lol. I still think her colour beats that of any rainbow boa out there!

not a chance, but she is very pretty.

[CDN_Blood]

Originally Posted by Caylan

If we didn;t see how big she was last year, you'd swear she was still eating really well this whole time lol. I still think her colour beats that of any rainbow boa out there!

She's eaten maybe 4 times in the past year, and very little each time. There are a few factors at play here - she was overfed before I was asked to take her, she'd gone off food just a few weeks before coming to me *and* she had just turned 3 1/2 years old at that point.

I think she's just taken all the extra mass she had acquired, hit sexual maturity and turned all that into length rather than bulk so she could really be all she could be in preparation for breeding. It's the only thing that explains how little her girth has changed with such little food intake.

As for her colour, it's great and I like it, but she's still not as deeply coloured as my original male Columbian Rainbow of years ago, but she's close

[Tekpc007]

i bet if you offered the right sized brained rat she would eat it right up , but mine will not eat sometimes unless its night time and the room is dark and he is in his viv.

[CDN_Blood]

Originally Posted by Tekpc007

i bet if you offered the right sized brained rat she would eat it right up , but mine will not eat sometimes unless its night time and the room is dark and he is in his viv.

I've never done that in 25 years and I never will. It's wholly unnatural and 99% of the time unnecessary.

My snakes get the same 2 options as my dinner guests: take it or leave it. Here you either adapt or you perish. She knows what she's doing and she'll eat when she's good and ready, trust me

[CDN_Blood]

Well, she did it again...here's another fresh paint job from the past hour.





So, that makes her slough history since her last meal (early December) as follows:
2011.12.15
2012.01.25
2012.03.06
2012.04.08
2012.05.18

For a snake that hasn't been eating, she's pretty regular with her sloughing at 30-40 day intervals. She was acting a little hungry last night, so I'll try her again tonight...

[Snakesitter]

I was about to make the same surprised comment: she sheds a lot for no food! Maybe she's ordering takeout on the sly? ;-)