Finally ate! What's your longest fast?

8 months is my longest fast. cool thing though was my albino was a die hard mouser. but after his fast finally ended he's been hammering rats.

3 weeks :D. I haven't hit the WALL yet.

7 months

7 months for my male pastel and he just started eating again about a month ago. Since then he's taken 3 good rats. Hopefully after 4 more months of good eating he'll be ready to breed again and fast the whole dang time!

Ha my first ball goes on a 6-7 month fast every winter. Freaked me out first time, now I just figure if they wanna stop eatting what ever husbandry is fine check back next week.

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10 months for me.

I will say that there seems to a 600-1000g "food wall."

For some reason when they get in that range many will just stop eating just because. And for what seems like forever. Not sure why this is. Not all do it but it is fairly common based on others I've talked to. Even BHB pointed it out in a video.

10-11 months. He is a rescue and wild caught, super pain in the bum.

My girl that went forever hit that "wall" and I have a couple of males being very picky right now that are right around 1000g

In my limited knowledge of the world and not knowing much of anything :p
I like to play guessing games and here is mine.
In the wild, I thinking maybe they are coming into sexual maturity around this size. They would be a little older compared to our snakes that get a nice healthy rat weekly.
Maybe the ones that find a mate, go on to a feeding frenzy to insure a healthy clutch. The ones who aren't ready, go on a fast to leave more of a food source for the ones ready to mate?

Like I said, just a guess.

Something I did try this year.
I had a girl coming into that "wall" while all my other girls where being paired.

I placed a male in with her a couple of times, knowing she was still too young.
She has pushed past 1000g and is still an eating machine. Very quick to grab up her rat every week.

In not saying everyone should try this but I wanted to see what she would do. Would she have never gone off feed? I don't know. I'm glad she didn't.

In my mind she was thinking, I better out on some weight if I'm going to be producing eggs. Time to eat!!

Haha

havent tried this yet, but a close friend of mine had a yellow belly female that had been off feed for 7 or 8 months. she had always been a rat eater, but he got sick of her not eating so he went n got a mouse and offered it. she snatched it right up. the week after that he offered a rat and she took it. been back on rats ever since. its like that after eating that mouse she remembered how good food was and it kicked her back into food mode. lol

Our longest fasting spell was on a pinstripe girl that refused a meal for about 8 months. BPs can be so frustrating sometimes.