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Hi all, I have a spotted python about 10 months old, and he hasn't eaten for about two months. He's still active and drinks; is there something I should be doing to get him to eat?
Spotted python not eating
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whoisdavedotcom
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Not the most helpful of ideas there bud.
You didn't actually say whether or not you've offered him a feed since he'd stopped eating though.
Given the almost complete and utter lack of information to go on, it's the best possible answer one could offer, unless you were hoping to play a game of 20 questions or detective, bud.
Perhaps next time ask for help you might like to have a go at helping people to help you, bud.
In 30+ years of working with thousands of snakes including hundreds of Spotted Pythons, I've had to deal with plenty which for various reasons stopped feeding, the first problem feeder Spotted Python I dealt with was in the mid 1990s, at the same age as yours, it was a steep learning curve for me back then, but these days I dare say I'm pretty good at it. But with this little information to work with, all I can suggest is offering it a feed. Maybe it stopped feeding because you just moved house or there has been unusual weather or your kids have been handling it too much. Perhaps you bought the snake 8 months ago and this is the first feed he has missed since then or perhaps you bought him two months ago, he did or didn't feed on arrival and hasn't eaten since.
I could go on and on, but if I know what's going on I can probably very quickly identify the likely problem and offer a useful solution. If you can't be bothered offering any useful information, it's like me going on to a car forum and saying "I have a 7 year old Toyota, it hasn't been running for the last two months, is there something I should be doing to get it running?"
Good luck getting your snake feeding, if you'd given me some information to work with I'd have taught you how to feed your snake rather than how to ask a question, but first steps first!
