It is well known that many, if not most, adult breeding ball pythons will go off feed during the winter, breeding months. My question is, will snakes that are not being bred, or too small/young to breed, sense this cooler time of year and go off feed as well?
All my snakes that have been breeding are not eating now. Males or females. Most of my smaller, younger snakes are still eating normally. Except a couple.
I mainly developed this question because of one of my sub-adult female pastels. I got her when she was around 200g, and she is now just under 900g. She has ALWAYS been a pig when it came to eating. Never missed a meal and would eat anything and everything. Just in the past few months, she has ceased eating. She has taken maybe 3 small meals in the past 3 months.
She has not been anywhere NEAR a male. My only guess is, since she is in the same rack as my breeders, that she took the slightly cooler temps. as an onset to breeding season and lost much of her interest in food. Have any of you seen this with your sub-adult snakes during the winter?
Or maybe she's just on a good old fashioned feeding strike....
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