Bothrops Atrox Baby

This is the only surviveing baby out of 40 36 slugs 4 live Bothrops Atrox Baby 100_1110

Hello,

Nice snake, I hope it grows well.

Greetings from Mexico.

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Best of luck!

Nice Archie,

Pity only one survived - did you have allot of temp fluctuations while mummy was preggies?

I do not know,This snake was bred by Randal Berry and given to me.I llike atrox and have never been able to raise a baby Tho I have tried 10 times in the early 80s .Then I gave up on them.Any one with advice on them my ears are open.This one ate pinks from the start but not regularly it likes to skip a couple of weeks some times just to scare me this is not an expensive snake but one of my most prized.When it does not eat I dont eat.This is one of those snakes that never does well for me yet every one else does fine with them.It has now not eaten in 10 days and I am freaking out. Thanks in advance for any advice.......Archie

My advice is to leave it alone...

If you are freaking out the animal hasn't eaten for 10 days, how often do you try? I feed babies one time in 10 or 14 days. Did it refuse to eat? Than I will wait another week and it could be 21 days ago the last time the animal ate...

I shouldn't worry too much. Most snakes don't eat that often.

That is what I will do thanks

Hi Archie
I have bred them three times now and the babies are real little buggers! I lost a good few of them as they refuse to eat and when they do they eat so intermittently. Completely unlike the adults. I leave them up to 3 weeks between feeding and then suddenly they will eat well for a couple of feeds then stop again! I eventually force fed a number of them to get them going and the 3 I kept back from last season are still giving me headaches! They eat, then they dont for the next 2 attempts, then they eat again. Just hang in there and if it gets to 3 weeks or so and still no interest then I would force feed it. Their natural prey is probably frogs and lizards as babies, but I dont have time to go out and collect them.
Good luck!
regards
Gavin

I tell you what they go down hill fast.so I assisted it to eat a pinkie last night.That is very easy to do and will do it every 5 days from now on until it starts feeding regular on its own.The more size the better chance they have.

Atrox babies are bad feeders in captivity... I use part of pinky, for 10 days.... and is very difficult..

best regards

it ate 2 fat pinkies on its own today after 5 assist feedings.

Hey Archie
That is excellent news! I wish mine had started that quickly! I am still struggling with the one! It has stopped eating again so I am force feeding it once more! Pain in the A**! I didnt pair mine up this year for that same reason!
Cheers
Gavin

Thanks Gavin ,you know when I got it it had eaten pinks from the first feeding and ate 6 times then it stopped eating and had no interest at all.It got about half as skinny as a pencil and I knew it was time to start force feeding as well as your advice.Today I noticed it was flicking its tounge alot and crawling around so I threw in a pink wham it grabbed it and did not let go after it ate I said what the hell and threw in another and wham all over again ..I know that they do not cost much but these guys are one of my favorite snakes on the planet.I know that it could do it again so lets our fingers crossed.

Well it did it again it ate 1 tonight same way .

I don't have too much experience with atrox, but some. I have found that my babies do not do well on pinkies at all, nor fuzzies. They prefer small hopper mice for their first meals. Once I tried that I did not have any problems at all. Hope this helps!

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