After three meals, I am puzzled

[katach]

Have you tried anything other than fish and worm? Maybe try a slug or pinkie.

[Serpico]

Have you tried anything other than fish and worm? Maybe try a slug or pinkie.

I have some hopes with slugs, I mean, finding them, coming autumn it should not too difficult to find them, and regarding pinkies, coming saturday i'll definitely go buy some.

[Mommy2many]

In the fall, they tend to slow down on their eating schedule. You mentioned that you acquired them the 25th of September; last year, I presume? So have they been eating regularly for you since then, or is the date wrong and are they newly acquired snakes? Newly acquired snakes may take a few weeks to acclimate themselves to their new home and in that, not eat.

Keep trying different types of food, i.e. worms, fish, pinkies, slugs etc. When they are hungry, they will eat.

[Serpico]

In the fall, they tend to slow down on their eating schedule. You mentioned that you acquired them the 25th of September; last year, I presume? So have they been eating regularly for you since then, or is the date wrong and are they newly acquired snakes? Newly acquired snakes may take a few weeks to acclimate themselves to their new home and in that, not eat.

Keep trying different types of food, i.e. worms, fish, pinkies, slugs etc. When they are hungry, they will eat.

The latter option, LeAnn.
They are newly aquired ones, and while it is true what you say about acclimatization, it is also true that the female ate immediately, and the male DID eat one chunk (not big, his head more or less), ONCE, then stopped.
And this happened after one week only their arrival.

I will surely keep trying offering him food, next offering will be fish tomorrow, and on saturday I'll go get pinkies and sunday, slugs.

But I intended brumating the couple, this coming winter, and now I am reconsidering...

[Serpico]

Update.

I got pinkies today, I chopped them and after having removed the female from the viv, I gave some thawed pieces to the male.
Ignored.
I have left the pieces with him right now, and I am gone. I'll wait some time before prononcing also this food "refused".

At the same time, I have noticed a small lump on the male's back, approx one third of his lenght, the lump is grey color, and a couple of millimiters high...

What could it be? It was not there, two days ago....

A worried Pg