Indie, my little, once adventuresome, male Anerythristic Kenyan Sand Boa has not eaten since I brought him home over a month ago. If he were a full-sized adult, I wouldn't be so worried about it, but he is only six months old. My other 2 Kenyans are literally double the size of Indie, and they seem to eat whatever I put in front of them.
I have a theory as to why Indie refuses to eat. Indie is the leader of a tribe of sand boas that are under the rule of a tyrannical government- and until they leave his tribe alone, he has decided to fast. He calls it "passive resistance".
Because of this new behavior, I've decided to rename Indie- He will here-to-fore be name Ghandi.
(Actually, it was probably because the other two snakes were incorrectly sexed by their breeder and Ghandi has been living with two very large and scary females this whole time)
So now, we've given him his own small cage and we've tried feeding him everything. This includes both frozen and live small pinky mice, one chopped up small pinky, and 3 various sizes of crickets. All of these we attempted in different locations at different times of day. NOTHING seems apetizing to him.
On the bright side, Ghandi seems to be very active, and other than the fact that he is very small- he seems quite healthy.
If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears. (I love how I say that as if my famous blog is being read by hundreds of snake enthusiasts each day)
2 comments:
Dave
The big Female Ball Python went missing this morning. That's right when I went down to check on them before leaving for work she was not in the cage and the top was undisturbed. I easily found her right where I expect, curled up under the bed. I haven't told Nery, I don't think she would like that she escaped. I put some heavier weights on top of the aquarium so I think she should not be able to get out again. As far as Ghandi it may be a religeous thing like like in 7 years in Tibet when the Budhist Monks got upset about worms being killed when they were digging a trench.
I don't know why, but when I read 'Passive Resitence' it made me think of 'Bloody Show' or however you spell it...'Bloody sheuix'
I'm glad to see you are still into your snakes. And I'm even more glad to know that they can escape. (Steve's comment above) I guess I will just have to sit on the porch at their house- for safety purposes.
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