Red Tail Boa Refuses To Eat

Question
QUESTION: I have a red tail boa who is about 6 months old. She is a little longer than when I got her before but I've had problems with her keeping her food down since day one. One month she would take it every week for a month. Then the next month she'd throw them all up.

Everything is fine. Temps are good, humidity is good. She just refuses to eat. I don't get it. Everything is thawed. Warm. I wave it in her face and she back away.

She has nothing wrong with her the vet said. I don't get it.

ANSWER: Ok, if you want my opinion on this you're going to have to follow the instructions to questioners otherwise it's just a waste of time. I don't know that everything is "fine" just because you say so. I don't know how much experience you have. That's why I ask for all the environmental details up front so I can make a judgement about the problem.



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QUESTION: Humidity is at 506-60% at all times. Cool end stays around 75-80. Basking end is from 85-92.

Plenty of hids, paper towel substrate. No mites. Mouth is healthy. Scales are heathly. I've checked all this last night.

ANSWER: Ok, closer, but there is more info you didn't provide. The food. What are you feeding? When was the last shed? Has this snake been sexed to be female and are you sure of it's age?

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QUESTION: Nevermind she has passed away. She was really dehydrated and the vets couldn't take her.

Answer
Well that's sad. The vet couldn't take her because she was really dehydrated? I don't understand that. That's what vets are for. He was wrong if he said there wasn't "anything" he could do. The basics would have been some SQ fluids at least. There's always "something" that can be done. Probably just didn't know what he was doing with snakes.

Too many things to guess on right now what might have happened, because I never got a complete story. I meant to ask you if you kept a water bowl available at all times since this is a tropical species, but that's exactly why I ask for that information in my instructions, so I don't have to keep repeating myself and going through this questioning. It wastes time to have to ask back and forth in order to get a full picture. There's too many things to speculate about, and frankly too much for me to type, to make guesses without a complete background.

If in the future you need the services of someone online again, please be prepared to give complete information the first time if you want your animal to have the best chances. Do not assume that everthing is ok and you don't need to provide the husbandry and environmental information. Just go ahead and provide it anyway so that we can assess all that ourselves.