I have produced and started over 100 hatchling ball pythons.

This is what I usually do:

1.) leave the clutch together in tub until first shed. once everyone sheds I separate and set them up in 6quart tub rack then try feeding 2 or 3 days after that. for first feeding I leave a fuzzy / hopper size mouse in overnight.
2.) If they don't eat I pull out mouse and try again in one week. Again I leave it in overnight.
3.) If they don't eat I pull out mouse and try again in one week. Again I leave it in overnight. If they don't eat I kill mouse and assist feed.
4.) a week later i put fuzzy/hopper in overnight.
5.) If they don't eat I pull out mouse and try again in a week.
6.) If they don't eat I pull out mouse and try again in a week.

I have never had one go past #6 without eating on their own.

Well, I need help with a plan for my trouble cinny hatchling. For the LONG DRAWN OUT STORY click here. http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...d.php?t=124251

To make a long story short, she was underdeveloped, starving, and almost dead when she came out of the egg. I had to force feed (working mouse all the way down to her stomach) shortly after she hatched in a last ditch effort to save her. Well, now she is doing much better, but doesn't seem to grasp the idea of strking and constricting. I strayed away from my "normal" fussy feeder hatchling rules listed above because she was so skinny and weak. It is possible that she shed when she was in with her siblings, but I am pretty sure that she STILL has not shed yet. (her siblings shed like 3 weeks ago)

She refused a fuzzy mouse overnight again last night so I assist fed her this morning. The second I put the fuzzy in her mouth she started swallowing. She is obviously Hungry, and knows what to do once it is in her mouth....

So, tell me. what should I do the next feeding? the one after that? and so on. I think that although she is still very small compared to her siblings, she has enough strength and weight on her now that I need to probably move towards not assisting, and letting her figure it out, or perish.

Please help.

here is a picture of her with her sister.