Trimeresurus albolabris arent eating! help!

Hello i have 5 trimeresurus albolabris babies and none of them have eaten since a month or so.. the person who sold them to me hasnt written to me at all.. please help i tried everything.. lizards.. frogs.. mice.. nothing works!

Hello Vasil,

I wish that somebody will help you soon, personnely i often read that they need to be force-feeding.
Perhaps if you try with some fish...Tease them, touch the tail to make them bite on the food items. Sometimes it can work after time. Did you try the evening?
Let them in a quiet place, not to stress them too much when you don't try to feed them.
Regards
Fred

Hi

I achieved good results with very "hot" babymice in connection with absolute silence, very slow movements and a dark ambiance. Hope you have luck in the future...
All the best!

Hendrik Ulbrich wrote:: Hi

I achieved good results with very "hot" babymice in connection with absolute silence, very slow movements and a dark ambiance. Hope you have luck in the future...
All the best!

Hendrik, how do you heat the mice?

try to Feed them with parts of mices First. Mabye only the head or a legg, babymices can be to big and haevy!
Here it has worked with fucata, venustus and cardamomensis. Feed only One in One Box, after it has bite and has the food in the mouth - let them alone! MABYE it takes a lot of time, but in Most cases it works. Very good results I have had with feeding them with parts of frogleggs.

Just put them into boiling water for a few minutes and try to feed them directly, move slowly and it should be dark in the room with no distraction around the terrarium(!). As Peter said be careful with the size of the preyitem, it shouldn´t be too large. With this procedure my Schleg´s and Trimeresurus trigonocephalus startet feeding on their own. Good luck!

Any results yet ?

CHEERS

Hi, Vasil,
if your albolabris' aren't eating yet, I'll try help you (maybe it works).
My aspidelaps l. l. 1.1 weren't eated up today. I tried too: mices, rats, their parts... But didn't works. So, recently I tested with rabbit meat. I cutted to 1cm x 5mm piece. WORKS! Known snakes weren't stressed.
Until now snakes were force-feeded with mouse's pinkies.
I believe your snakes will eat! Smile

With best wishes,
Nojus

hello, one of them ate mice when the mice was rubbed in a lizard the other ones eat only lizards, how do i feed them the rabbit meat

If you put one tree viper in its own quart jar, with about one inch deep of mulch or gravel,and a small branch to hang on. Mist the jar down with room temp water,hang a clamp light above the jars est. 12 inches over with a 40 watt bulb. After about 2 or 3 days throw 1 frog in each jar I think you will have them up and running. If they do not feed after one night remove the frogs ,and try again in a couple days.

Shouldn't be that difficult using frogs - most Trimeresurus juveniles feed readily on frogs.
Many keepers of Trimeresurus albolabris or similar species do not have frogs available year round (at least those living in temperate zones) or do not want to use'em due to conservation issues.

Therefore the question should be how to get the youngsters on unproblematic and easy available food like mice pinkies.

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