problem eaters.....

So my red tail hasn't ate in 6 weeks now and my female bp hasn't eaten in 4 weeks. I'm feeding f/t and have been for a long while now, but it seems ever since I got the male bp neither one has been interested in eating. Any tips tricks suggestions or methods would be greatly appreciated.

bowmansreptiles wrote:

So my red tail hasn't ate in 6 weeks now and my female bp hasn't eaten in 4 weeks. I'm feeding f/t and have been for a long while now, but it seems ever since I got the male bp neither one has been interested in eating. Any tips tricks suggestions or methods would be greatly appreciated.

When I've had finicky feeders, I've scaled back in size. I had a female that wouldn't eat rats because a crazy zombie rat bit her. She refused to eat rats for weeks and then I offered a mouse instead. It didn't take long to move her back up to rat crawlers and weanlings and gradually made our way back up to her usual medium sized rat meals.

How old are they? Maybe pheromones in the air and kicking them off feed?

I'm guessing the red tail is about 6 months old and the female is about 2 years old. I've been trying to feed fuzzy mice to the red tail, when I first got him he was eating hopper mice but the pet store by us doesn't sell hoppers so I've been feeding 2 fuzzys, and the female has been on small rats for about 6 months now

bowmansreptiles wrote:

I'm guessing the red tail is about 6 months old and the female is about 2 years old. I've been trying to feed fuzzy mice to the red tail, when I first got him he was eating hopper mice but the pet store by us doesn't sell hoppers so I've been feeding 2 fuzzys, and the female has been on small rats for about 6 months now

Hmm.. I would double-check their enclosure's specs and make sure everything is as it should be. Look over the animals as well and see that there aren't any signs of illness or parasites.