Help!!!

Our 4 year old Ball python has not eaten for around 4 months!!
Please tell us how we can get her feeding we've tried everything!!!

It might help people give you some suggestions if you list what you have tried - that way there wont' be all the back and forth of "did you try..." etc.

We have tried live and defrost! Rats , mice, gerbils! Braining, assisted feeding! Leaving her overnight with them! We have tried during the day and at night! She turns her head when she doesnot want to eat and when we tried to assist her she just regurgitated it!!!
She has a hide which she spends most of the day in and tends to come out at night. We have not handled her to encourage her feeding and tried adjusting the temps in the viv as well!! NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK!!!! :mad:

Could you describe everything in the viv and the way it is set up: size, temps, how you measure the temps, recent changes, etc?

Could try soaking in chicken broth? or maybe slitting the nose to encourage more scent....

She's 3feet long, tank is 3x2, temps are 86f hot end, 80 cold end, digital thermomitor for recording, no recent changes.

we'v tried the splitting, but not the chicken broth.

A 4 year old ball could also be fasting because of the on coming breeding season. Although I would recommmend that you get your hot side temps to at least 90-92 degrees for digestion reasons.

4 months is not a very long time, I've personally had snakes fast for up to 8 months. You should invest in a digital scale (one used for cooking) and take a weight every 2 to 4 weeks. If you start to see significant weight loss then you should worry but until then I wouldn't try to assist feed as it can cause more harm than good.

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I havn'y heard of them fasting before breeding! so it could be that!! We're getting her a 5 year old male, could this help then?? She hasn't lost much weight, would this be a problem with breedimg???

well you dont want to have an underweight female breeding, they need their size to hold the eggs.