When Should I start to Worry?

I too would suggest less variation. Night drops while not needed will not hurt either (as long as they are not overly dramatic) however I would suggest night drops be ambient air temp drops not hot spot drops I believe the hot spot should be constant.

That said I don't think it is a huge issue just it would be better. The exact trigger for breeding is not certain, humidity changes or temperature or some combination of them. Atmospheric pressure hard to know. In the wild most royals enter breeding season together and eggs hatch in a short period of time in captivity breeding times are all over the place. The trigger is clearly environmental but what precisely is unclear. It seems likely the fast is a breeding response. The conditions you control may have an effect on that and depending on what they are you may artificially extend that. I would suggest your snake is in breeding mode and will come out of it sooner or later. I would also suggest constant temps and control over the surface and air temps will keep breeding cycles regular and for a natural duration.

I wouldn't worry yet, just keep eye on any weight changes. Continue to offer appropriate sized meals and sooner or later he snatch it up.

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Originally Posted by captainjack0000

...I may reconsider buying a thermostat.

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You will thank yourself if you do. If you get the right one you can have complete control of ambient and hot spot.

I use a couple of Reptile Basics stats for my ball and a couple other animals, and they are great, but in retrospect a single Herpstat 4 would probably handle all my needs and be less expensive in the long run.

Then there's the roommates' corn and she's on a $25.00 on/off type Zoo Med or Zilla with a dial and it does just fine.

Point is I don't have to worry about outside influences affecting the inside cage temps in a drastic way.

It's been a long time since I have lived in Florida and you guys do have steadier temps but as you've seen this winter nothing is 100% predictable.

For those people in the future who find this thread while dealing with your own hunger strike, and everybody else that remembers this thread, my girl ate yesterday. I had been offering every couple of weeks a small rat, sometimes live, sometimes freshly killed, and nothing.

Yesterday I offered a f/t mouse (a 25g one) to my biggest corn, and he turned his nose up at it. He's been looking for a mate since April, so no big surprise there. I figured, what the heck, lets see if the BP wants it. And after getting it up to temp, she took it. Now let's hope she readily takes a rat next time. I can't be feeding my 1300g python 25g mice all of the time.

Total number of days without food - 122 (plus prior to that feeding, there were an additional 35 days where she didn't eat) So 1 meal in 157 days.

She ate Jan 20th, Feb 24th, and June 26th.

YAY!!!!!!

Congrats!!