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Cazador · 10-16-2006, 02:50 AM

If you have vegetation, moss, or fungi growing in the top of your vivarium, it is too humid. You can buy a hygrometer (humidity gauge) to be certain, but fungal growth is a bad thing for the health of your captive snake. If you find out that your humidity is too high, just clean out the aquarium. When you replace the Jungle Bed, only fill a corner with the jungle bed and put dry paper towels or bark on the rest. Finally put a smaller water dish in your vivarium. This should cut down on the humidity (if this turns out to be the problem) and should prevent additional growth.

As far as your snake not eating, I have to agree with everyone else. Snakes can go for quite a while without food. They're amazing. However, this is the time of year when many snakes from northern regions naturally stop eating in preparation for brumation/hibernation. Give it another week. Then if your snake still won't eat, start dropping the temperature by a few degrees Celsius per day. Also start reducing the photoperiod, so your snake can prepare to brumate. When you get down to about 8 or 10 hours of light per day, put the snake in a totally dark place where the temperature is around 55 F.

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Cazador Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Alaska, USA Posts: 1,608 Country:	Re: no eating, If you have vegetation, moss, or fungi growing in the top of your vivarium, it is too humid. You can buy a hygrometer (humidity gauge) to be certain, but fungal growth is a bad thing for the health of your captive snake. If you find out that your humidity is too high, just clean out the aquarium. When you replace the Jungle Bed, only fill a corner with the jungle bed and put dry paper towels or bark on the rest. Finally put a smaller water dish in your vivarium. This should cut down on the humidity (if this turns out to be the problem) and should prevent additional growth. As far as your snake not eating, I have to agree with everyone else. Snakes can go for quite a while without food. They're amazing. However, this is the time of year when many snakes from northern regions naturally stop eating in preparation for brumation/hibernation. Give it another week. Then if your snake still won't eat, start dropping the temperature by a few degrees Celsius per day. Also start reducing the photoperiod, so your snake can prepare to brumate. When you get down to about 8 or 10 hours of light per day, put the snake in a totally dark place where the temperature is around 55 F.