I know that probably around 40% of the posts made on this site relate to pythons not eating and generally being finicky and downright crazy, but I've got a new mystery to be solved. For the past two weeks our feeding days were spotty and getting worse and now today only two of them ate. 2/10 = bad day.

My boyfriend and I have been trying to switch some of our scaly kids to rats as they are getting to the size where trying to get them to eat more than one mouse is downright annoying. So far, we've had mixed results. For the past four weeks, some will eat them one week others they'll refuse, but now they're refusing everything. And it's just our frozen/thawed eaters. Our two live eaters have been pounding food in seconds and ate their first rats today with no problems at all.

The only thing we've changed is the temperatures. They'd been diving a bit low, settling around 89-90 so a week ago I bumped it up to 92-94. I don't know if this jump would cause them all to go off of food though. Other than that, no changes. I'm thinking of trying to feed them in their tubs next week instead of their feed boxes. Maybe it would help them to feel more comfortable. I just don't know...Merggghhh.

This is absolute MADNESS. It's like they just know how concerned I get and are bound and determined to drive me crazy.

Any help would be appreciated... Oi... And here I thought this would get easier as they aged.