9weeks 285g and still not eating

Almost 10 weeks.
She had shed recently, i hadnt known because i have blacked her out and left her alone.
So when i try to feed she would run away but now she is striking multiple times but running away.
She is hissing like crazy and puffing herself up so much shes lifting up her hides.
Like she is super pissed. I left her alone after that but i know its cool for a larger snake but is my 285g baby alright after 9 weeks?
No weight is lost so im not super worried but it does irritate me to no end
In my previous posts i have fixed my no-no's

How often are you attempting to feed her even though she is refusing?

What are you feeding her? Rats, mice? Live or f/t?

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I now feed every 5 days around 02 am
I use rat fuzzies f/t

I tried live
I was scenting but was suggested to stop due to doing too much.

is this what she ate before going off feed? you might want to try live prey to help kick the feeding response back in. didn't read your last thread, but a female (under 300 grams) usually don't go off feed this soon. need to double check everything and make sure her enclosure isn't stressing her by being too large. and some balls won't take a rodent at the size they should. sometimes you have to try something a little bit smaller.

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Originally Posted by don15681

is this what she ate before going off feed? you might want to try live prey to help kick the feeding response back in. didn't read your last thread, but a female (under 300 grams) usually don't go off feed this soon. need to double check everything and make sure her enclosure isn't stressing her by being too large. and some balls won't take a rodent at the size they should. sometimes you have to try something a little bit smaller.

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x2. i've had animals that were on rats great randomly go off food like they do. wouldnt eat for a couple months, so i finally offered a small, live mouse. they love those little things. then it seemed like getting some food in em kinda reminds em how good food is and the next week they were right back on rats.

:D:D:D:D

yeah baby

that little jerk ate!

So, after taking the good advice from you guys I started to think about her reactions to the attempted feedings.

10% of her weight is a fuzzy rat, 20-29g and the fuzzies are slightly smaller than her roundness.

I realized she was afraid because they seemed to big for her...hence her flipping out and striking like nuts but not "killing"
Or her other course of action...to stare at it then hide.

so i grabbed a live pinkie rat that was just getting into the fuzzy club...like just showed his ID at the door.
So, this guy was around 15g

I put him in during the day because I wanted to bring him back in case she didnt eat him so he wouldn't die.
I placed it in and it crawled into her hide.
I heard the sad squeek if death.

Lets hope i can get her on f/t ;)