I lost my snake about 6 1/2 weeks ago. Fortunately, today it returned today however I was wondering how long they can survive without food (just so as I know if it has been eating anything). Also, should I feed it one mouse per week as has been normal, or should I up it for the next few weeks?
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up to 2 or 3 months. Snakes are notorious for not eating for long periods of time, but it is advisable to offer a mouse once a week so the snake has the option of eating if it would like to.
1 mouse a week is perfectly fine, but do no more than two.
a week
Hello...glad you got him back...I'd go ahead %26 try to feed him, if he don't eat he don't eat, but he will eventually ..if he looks particularly thinner then before he escaped then he hasn't eatin well while out ..up his temps about 5 degrees but no more then 90 %26 of course his bowl of water ..hopefully you all haven't done any mice or rat control with poisions is the only thing you'd have to worry about if he ate them...once a week feeds for adults are fine, our adults only eat every other week or once a month...Take Care, am guessin lesson is learned, snakes are Houdini's / escape artists for sure !!
Had something similar with a gator snake (Ithink it was called that anyway) she disappeared for about 2 months and came back on her own - on the pillow next to me - anyway, she didn't look like she had lost any weight - we figure she was eating spiders and things in the roof space. We fed her a mouse as usual - she wouldn't eat when she was due to shed her skin - your snake will eat when it is hungry - just give it the same.
juveniles should eat one or two small pinkies a week, adults really should be eating 2-3 small mice or one rat a week. they digest faster than other snakes that can go 22 months without eating. They can survive a couple months, id say 2 max, without food. But you never know, when animals instinct kick in...they can last a while. I'd up it and make sure its nice and warm, and secure the lid!! those guys are fierce when it comes to escaping!
They can last quite a while without eating. Ours went for about nine weeks once, and we were worried cause we were inexperienced and didn't have access to the internet then, so couldn't get advice. So we sold him to friends and he is still thriving (now about 9yrs). He still stops eating through the winter for a few weeks.
i got a corn snake 6 months ago and i only got him to eat last week. i didn't feed him extra and he's fine now but your snake might shed it's skin due to a boost in energy. e.g the mouse
one a week should be fine.
My brother in law lost his corn snake, it turned up on his front door step 6 months later ! He lives in a block of flats too. A homing snake haha.
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