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Cazador · 03-01-2007, 03:13 AM

Try different food stuffs. Movement is great. If you can put some feeder fish in a very shallow pan of water so that they splash and flop around, it's usually more temptation than the snake can resist. Privacy during their first few meals usually helps quite a bit, too.

Sometimes snakes eat right after they come out of brumation, but taking a week to 10 days after brumation isn't at all uncommon. In nature, males in particular, may hang around a hibernaculum for over a month without eating while they're trying to mate.

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Cazador Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Alaska, USA Posts: 1,608 Country:	Re: out of brumation Try different food stuffs. Movement is great. If you can put some feeder fish in a very shallow pan of water so that they splash and flop around, it's usually more temptation than the snake can resist. Privacy during their first few meals usually helps quite a bit, too. Sometimes snakes eat right after they come out of brumation, but taking a week to 10 days after brumation isn't at all uncommon. In nature, males in particular, may hang around a hibernaculum for over a month without eating while they're trying to mate.