Hi , I have a female hey pied ball that's about 150grams , she often has trouble feeding as often she won't and if she does , it's very random , but she's been three weeks without food now , refusing all three times (I feed them weekly) I may need to note that she has only struck at her food once and every other time I attempted feeding she gets scared of the rat, except when I assist her with it , and like I said before, she eats randomly so it doesn't always work.

I always feed at night , which seems to be the best time for all my other ball pythons to eat.

I try warming the rat, and it's head in warm/hot water .

I try leaving it In with the snake - she just slides over it , ignoring it.

I also tried braining a spare pinkie rat to see if she'd eat once .

As you can probably tell with her sporadic mental feeding reputation it becomes very frustrating for me.

She is currently inside a tub/faunarium , within a larger vivarium which she will move up into once big enough .

It's also made more frustrating that her future mate Baldrick (pied) eats weekly , every time on frozen thawed , strikes and all , whereas she is too timid to go near the rat.

The rat sizes being offered are fuzzy rats , as I wanted to give her something smaller after last weeks regurge , which was definitely caused by too large a food item.(I waited at least 10 days before attempting to feed )

Basking spot set to 31/32 *C , with an inside the hot spot hide temp of around 30/31*C , humidity is good no too much that my hand is damp and not too little that it comes out dryer than before .

If anyone could please give forth some help or advice it would be greatly appreciated.


Stan:

Vivian the cornsnake
Nymeria the Het. Pied Royal
Baldrick the Piebald Royal
Larry and Lizzy the common wall lizards