Help please!!

[wolf_010]

Hey guys, used to come here but lost the site. Anyway not the point.

I just got a new regular corn snake named Kimi, and she isnt eating!! I have been doing everything I have been told by the store, shes been with me for a bit over a week now, and there not sure when she was fed because ive gotten two diffrent dates!! at worst, its been about two weeks.

PLease any help would be apreacitaed.....

[djcoreyd]

Snakes in the wild would just be coming out of hibernation(burmation) so noly natural for CB snakes to be a little fussy. Are you feeding rats or mice to it? I have some corns that only eat small rats.

[wolf_010]

I was told shes on fuzzy's right now... but i think they look a bit big for her.. im thinking of picking up pinky's just untill shes starts eating, at least i can feed her two of those when she gets eating again... She has me frantic...

[djcoreyd]

You have pic?

The biggest mistake people make is giving them smaller food. They have to stretch, thus the shedding process. I usually fgo 1.5 X the girth, so for example the girth looks like it would fit a mouse I would go with a small rat. Send Pic and I will tell you what it should be eating(include you rhand or something in comparison)


Cheers

[-okapi-]

Its just been moved to a new home, its gonna be skittish and reluctant to eat. Dont handle or mess with it at all until it eats. Also try feeding in the evening. Whats the light cycle, temps like there? Is it's tank sitting next to a tv or in a busy room/Are there people constantly walking by and looking in at it? Does it have a hidebox? Is it eating live or F/T? Have you tried braining or tease feeding?

(Braining is where you take a dead prey and use a paperclip to poke a hole in the top of its head and place it with its head just in the entrance of the snakes hidebox and leave the room for 2 hours or so. The smell and closeness usually causes the snake to feed when it feels safe and secure in its hidebox with no treats around.
Tease feeding is where you take the dead prey and hold it with tongs and tap the snakes body gently with the rodents nose. The snake might strike the food. Slowly release the food from the tongs and hold perfectly still until the snake has 2/3 of the prey swallowed, otherwise you might startle it and it will drop the food.)