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| Cheeto climbing |
She has been mine for about two months now! Her favorite activities consist of burrowing, exploring my desk, and, strangely enough, climbing the walls over enclosure and laying on the lip of the lid. She's a weirdo, but she's my weirdo.
Now, one thing that I wish I would have known before getting a KSB is how picky they are.
From all the people I have talked to these are some of the differences in feeding KSBs:
- Type of rodent
- Mouse
- Rat
- Freshness
- Live
- Frozen/Thawed
- Freshly killed
- When
- Day
- Night
- Where
- In a paper bag
- In a feeding tub inside the enclosure
- In a separate feeding tub
- Left in a bowl
- How
- Tong feed
- In a bowl
All these options provide for a wide array of different combinations of how KSBs can be fed and attests to the peculiarity of the animal.
Now, I love my Cheeto, but she is causing major concern. Now it could be her "off feed" season, but I really don't believe in that.
She has only eaten once since I got her. And it isn't for lack of trying on my end - once or twice a week I offer her a frozen/thawed pinky mouse and about twice a month I make a 45 minute drive to Plano to get a live pinky mouse. I have tried every combination possible to get her to eat.
Her husbandry is satisfactory according to the breeder I purchased her from: 20 gallon long tank, 90 degrees on the hot side via an Under-the-Tank heating pad and 80 degrees on the cool side. In my quest to get Cheeto to eat, I have reached out to other owners on social media: some people say she's in too big of an enclosure, some say the hot side isn't hot enough, etc., etc..
This weekend I will be picking up another live pinky and I will see what happens. Worst comes to worst, and I really do not want to do this, but the breeder suggested assisting her with feeding. This would bring stress on both Cheeto and I so I don't want it to come down to that. I just want my snake to eat.
More to come later.
