As you may have already guessed my normal male has gone one solid month without eating. I have tried almost everything. Last night I pre-scented the room for a while and while watching him he was going nuts. He was slithering all around and flicking his tongue like he was ready to eat!!!!!!!!!! I offered the frozen/thawed rat and you guessed it..........he smelled it and crawled away. I will try again next week.

For those that are wondering..........88 degrees on the hot, 83 on the cool side, 2X3 Reptile Basics enclosure, been in the same enclosure for 5 months, humidity is around 50 degrees when not sheeding, substrate is paper, weighs 440 grams, hatched in August 2009.

The only thing I can figure is that my female is directly above him. Can he sense that she is above him and have other things on his mind besides eating? My female will eat anything that has fur on it. She has turned down a meal twice that I can think of. She is due to eat tomorrow night and I can promise you all that she will eat!!!!!!!!!!!! My male........is driving me CRAZY!!

I have read that ball pythons are infamous for going off of food and I have read numerous posts here concerning the same thing.

For those that have been in my shoes what finally worked for you all???????

I feel like having a stern talk with him!!!!!