First time breeding question

[Lana's_mom]

I am trying to breed my ball pythons for the first time. I have 1.1 66% het pieds. Figured for my first time that this wasn't a bad pairing. Well my girl had gone off food for a month and had been locking regularly with the male. And she was getting big. About 2 weeks ago she stopped locking with the male, even tho he still seemed interested, and I was hopefull. But last week she ate a hopper rat, and so I am not very hopefull anymore. But than why has she stopped locking with the male? Any thoughts. Here is a pic of them together.



She hasn't lost any weight when she was off her food, if anything she got bigger.

[Meltdown Morphs]

She could still be building if you haven't seen an ovulation yet. Sometimes they do take a break from breeding, maybe if you kept them apart for 5 days or a solid week then reintroduce them they might start again.

[Lana's_mom]

I will try that. Thank you.