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 Atheris squamigera refuses to eat

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Philipp Schmitt
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PostSubject: Atheris squamigera refuses to eat   Atheris squamigera refuses to eat Icon_minitimeSat 20 Oct - 16:50
Hello everybody,

I have some problems with one of my atheris squamigera.
I'm keeping 1.1 of them and they are about 1,5 years old.

The male is feeding very well and he is really voracious.

But the female makes me a little bit worried.

Every time when i try to offer a pinky mouse to her, she turns away her head.
I have tried many ways to make her eat:

- Feeding inside the Terrarium
- Feeding inside a plastik box and leaving her alone there with the mouse overnight.
- Feeding at nighttime
- Feeding at daytime
- Feeding at the glatt floor (This one worked one time...)

Every time i try to make her bite into the mouse by tapping the mouse against the atheris' mouth, body and tail for a long time. Without any success.

Two times i forced feed her, because she got more and more slim.

She is behaving normally except that she refuses to eat.

Does anybody have some advice for me.

Best regards!

Philipp






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Frank Weinsheimer
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PostSubject: Re: Atheris squamigera refuses to eat   Atheris squamigera refuses to eat Icon_minitimeSat 20 Oct - 16:59
Hey Philipp,

did you try to make her bite into a frozen thawed mouse, which you put in hot water, so that it has a higher temperature than normally? In Pitvipers this works very well and as there are signs of some type of heating sensory in different vipers as well, this might work. Is your female flicking the tongue when you force her to bite? Maybe it can work to rub the mouse against a frog to use the smell of the frog. A friend of mine is feeding his juvenile Atheris sp. on fish, maybe your female loves it too. I hope this helps.

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Frank
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PostSubject: Re: Atheris squamigera refuses to eat   Atheris squamigera refuses to eat Icon_minitimeSat 20 Oct - 18:11
Hi Frank,

yes, i used frozed mice, thawing them in hot water.
Today, just before i posted in this forum i tried it again.

Her brother took it agressively, like always.

Trying with the first mouse on the female, the water and the mouse temperature was higher than normally.

But she refused it, so that i decided to force her to eat, again.

After a while, the water and the mice got colder, but nothing changed. She didn't bite inside the mouse. (I feed her on the floor, because this worked one time before.)

She dosn't flick the tongue. She just seems to be uninteressed.

Thank you for the advice: I will try fish and frog aroma the next time!

Best regards

Philipp



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