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Help My baby albino boa isnt eating! HELP!

I have gotten a baby albino (she is blind in one eye) about 3 weeks ago. I waited a few days to feed her so she could adjust, and she took a fuzzy. But a few days after that i tried to feed her again, and she wouldn't eat, and I've kept trying to feed her and she refuses to eat. I've tried live pinkies, f/t, etc and she just isn't interested at all. And just recently I noticed mites in her scales! Would this be the reason? I'm going to bring her to a vet but is there anything I can do until then? Please help!
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Well for one thing, trying to feed her every few days is too often. She should be fed once every 7 days up until a year old, then feed every 10-14 days. She should be fed prey items the same thickness as the widest part of her body. How long is she? Newborn boas or boas a few months old can start eating rat pinkies or rat fuzzies... you can feed them mice, but rats have more meat to them and are healthier.

As for the mites... they are little black specks in her scales, right?

You can go to your local walmart and in the camping section you should find an orange and blue metallic can of Repel Permanone with .05% permethrine in it. NO DEET. Taking her to the vet will only stress her out right now and isn't necessary yet.

If you're using aspen bedding, cypress mulch, or even newspaper.. if you're using newspaper, shred it up finely, preferably with a paper shredder and use that for substrate.

Take the snake and waterbowl out of the enclosure and temporarily have the snake in a small container. With the Repel, spray down the enclosure and bedding really good, stirring the substrate and spraying some more. DO NOT put the snake or waterbowl back in yet. Close up the enclosure and let it sit for about 30-60 minutes, then let it air out and dry completely for 60-120 minutes. Then put your snake and waterbowl back in. The reason for needing loose substrate for this is so the snake's body can come in contact with the Repel and it will be of better use to kill the mites.

Repeat this in 2 weeks. This is so that any remaining mite eggs that may have hatched will die also.


Also, do you have any other snakes? And if you do, are you quarantining her in another room? It is important that you do that for 6 months... if her enclosure was near any other snake enclosures, you're going to have to treat those cages too and spray the Repel around the outside of the cages lightly. If she is your only snake, then you should be fine.

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yoe can force feed the snake if it doesnt start eating after a month because they dont know how to eat when they are very young. bit that means you have to cut the moude or rae into peices.

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Pinky and fuzzy mice are what you feed 5 inch long baby cornsnakes. She needs pink rats.
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