My brother bought a young ball python several weeks ago and could not get him to eat frozen. We finally found a place that sells live and got him to eat a pinky rat last week. Purchased a fuzzy rat yesterday that he immediatly attempted to constrict, but after failing, he gave up completally. I tried once more that evening to get him to attempt to eat the fuzzy, but he had no interest. Today I went back to the store and got a pinky rat for him and put them in the separate feeding environment but he shows no interest now. He's been with the pinkie now for a few hours and we've moved to the feeding environment into his normal habitat so he has the 85ish daytime temp and appx 55 humidity. I'm hoping that once it gets to be nighttime he'll feel comfortable enough to strike, however I'm worried he exerted too much energy on the fuzzy rat yesterday (given his already weakened state after the frozen food hunger strike) and is too tired to strike now. At the moment though we've covered the sides of his habitat to make it as dark and comfortable as possible.