Taiwanese Beauty Snake Caresheet

10/23/14 After the two mice weren't eaten I had decided to try again the next night, maybe this time she would eat. Last time there was a lot of activity, bath, cage cleaning, etc. So I decided to take her out prior to giving her a mouse and she was awfully nervous almost skittish. After looking her over I noticed she had a dull look to her scales and eyes, time for a shed! Her first one with me. So I prepared the moist hide by placing whetted paper towel, just damp, in a larger flat water bowl and putting that on the warm side of her cage and placing one of her hides over it. Hopefully this'll be enough. I also placed some 3"x4" coral fragments in there with her for her to rub on. And just in case, I gave her a new mouse later that night. The next morning, this morning, the mouse wasn't eaten and she had pooped. So I cleaned it out and threw away the mouse. Hopefully she'll fully shed well and soon and start eating again.

10/22/14

Wednesday was suppose to be bath day, weekly clean cage day, and feed day.

The bath and cage cleaning was fine, the feeding not so much.  I left two thawed mice in there with her, she wouldn't touch them, so I left them overnight, woke up this morning and they were still there.  So I threw them away, I'll try again tonight.

Maybe everything in one night is just too much stress for her, she's already a shy eater.

The bath went off without a hitch and she seemed to enjoy it, I might add a bath section to the beauty snake care sheet.