thamnophis not eating

[mustang]

put her in a little moist enclosed container with worms and put it in a dark space...leave over night or for 2 days that may do the trick BE PPOSOTIVE LID IS SECURE and you might need to spray down the container (keep the worms alive) and also be sure to have a water source in there

[Max.Pyr]

I actually tried that, I might try it again - the hard part is I have to carry this all this out in my bedroom, so the best I could do was throw a towel over the smaller encloser and hope that cut off all the excess light and noise, and I did keep the worms moist so they stayed alive.

I was thinking maybe that's whats getting him/her I have an erratic schedule and sometimes I'm up at night with the lights on, and it can be noisy.

If I were to move him to a different room do you think that would help? or throw a towel over the whole tank at night? I guess this should have been obvious but I wasn't sure if it would make a difference until I read the other thread with the guy who's snake wasn't eating. It's hard though because outside my room their are 6 pet cats, I could put him in the bathroom but people use the bathroom all night.

I will try everything, I really don't want to loose the little guy.

[mustang]

when i did this i put the case (not that big of enclosure use tupplewear or whatever works) under my bed

[Max.Pyr]

If he doesn't go for the guppies at all I will try that, thanks.

[mustang]

no prob...oh have you tried putting a sock on (or glove if big snake
) and tease feed? that also works sometimes

[Max.Pyr]

No, I haven't but I figured the live guppies might have been enticing. + the snake does not seem to like stimulation via humans at all so I try to leave him alone when I feed him, he doesn't even like it when I walk by the cage which isn't really often.

I did rescue him from the wild when I was on the job and the people I was with disturbed his hibernating spot, it was in late november so I figured I couldn't put him back, since we had filled up his hole anyways and he got hit with a shovel. The wound didn't seem to have any effect on him for a long time so I don't think that is the cause btw, I think he may be very people shy though.

[mustang]

lol w/c snakes are ver she...i bought checker a waterfall he uses it to try to escape or to climb in and get around to the motor so i cant get him....need to get him a soaking dish lol...well try everything you can and post it i want to know what works